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Chapter 7 Questions
Beginning on pg. 178: Imperial Ambitions: The U.S. & East Asia, 18991917
1.
What caused Filipinos to feel betrayed by the U.S. government?
2.
What were American troops doing to Filipinos during the AmericanFilipino war?
3.
Explain how American newspaper writers and Americans in general
felt about Filipinos and what was the reaction of American blacks?
4.
How was William Taft involved? What programs did he launch in the
Philippines?
5.
What areas of China did the major European powers compete to claim
as their own spheres of influence? How did the United States feel
about this?
6.
Explain the Open Door Policy
7.
Why were the Japanese and the Russians not in favor of the U.S.
Open Door Policy?
8.
Why did the Japanese go to war with the Russians and who did the
U.S. favor?
9.
Why did Roosevelt become a mediator in the Russo-Japanese war?
10.
What did the Japanese view as a racist insult by the U.S.?