Chapter 28
America on the World Stage
1899-1901
“Little Brown Brothers” in the
Philippines
•1901
•Philippine Commission: 1899
•“Benevolent Assimilation”
Emilio Aguinaldo (c.
1869–1964) and
Followers, 1900
Hinging the Open Door in China
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1894-1895: Russia and Germany move into China
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John Hay
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Open Door
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1900: China’s “boxers”
Imperialism or Bryanism in
1900?
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McKinley: Election of 1900
 Republican
 “Bryanism”
 Theodore Roosevelt: VP
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William Jennings Bryan
 Democrat
 Anti-imperialism
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McKinley Wins
Teddy Roosevelt: Brandisher of
the Big Stick
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Sept. 1901: McKinley murdered
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Theodore Roosevelt President
No respect for the checks and
balance system
Where’s Teddy??
Colombia Blocks the Canal
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Atlantic Ocean to Pacific
Ocean
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1850: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
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1901: Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
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Colombia
Uncle Sam Creates Puppet
Panama
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Nov. 3, 1903:
Bunau-Varilla
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Hay-Bunau-Varilla
Treaty
Completing the Canal and
Appeasing Colombia
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U.S. relations lurch downward
with Latin America
Roosevelt defended himself all
charges of doing anything wrong
 Claimed Colombia wronged U.S. by
not permitting itself to be benefited by
the construction of the canal
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1904: Construction on Panama
Canal begins
1914: Completed
 $400 million
TR’s Perversion of Monroe’s
Doctrine
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Latin American nations in
debt to European nations
 Roosevelt concerned
Germany and Britain might
stay if they bail out Latin
America, violating the
Monroe Doctrine
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“Preventive Intervention”
Roosevelt Corollary
 Future monetary problems of
Latin America nations with
European countries, the U.S.
could pay them off
 Became an excuse for
numerous U.S. interventions
The Great White Fleet
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1904 Japan and Russia were in a war
Russia refused to leave Manchuria
Japan was winning then began to run
low on troops, so then asked Roosevelt
to intervene and begin peace
negotiations
1905 Roosevelt arrives with his “Great
White Fleet” and agreed to help Japan.
Japan received no compensations for
troops lost and received the southern
half of Sakhalin
Tensions afterwards b/w the U.S. and
Asia increased
Japanese arrive to California
1884 Japan repealed law prohibiting
Japanese people emigrating to other nations
 This lead to many Japanese people going to
California, they were received harshly by the
local white pop.(lots of racial tension)
 1906 San Francisco segregates schools
from Asians.
 This greatly offended the Asian pop. which
lead them to thinking of war.
“Gentlemen’s Agreement”
 Pres. Ted Roosevelt called the San
Francisco Board of Ed. to the White House
settling the segregation
Root-Takahira Agreement(1908)
Japanese and U.S. agreed to respect each
others territories. Japan pledged to stop
sending people to the United States
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