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| sec. of state (1867); bought alaska from the russians for 7.2 million | ||
| bought by WIlliam Seward for 7.2 million; referred as "Sewards Folly" but considered useful after gold and oil was discovered there, but previously seen useless | ||
| American Naval officer and historian. Educated at the US Naval Academy. served over 40 years in the Navy. He is most famous for his book "The Influence of Sea Power on History" which defined Naval strategy. stressed the importance of sea power in the world. His philosophies had a major influence on the Navies of many nations. | ||
| Conference called by James Blaine that created an organization of cooperation between the US and Latin American countries about trade | ||
| was the Republican presidential candidate in the 1884 election. He surfaced again as leader in the first Pan-American Conference to improve trade with Latin American countries. He was Secretary of State during the Garfield and Harrison administrations. | ||
| Began as a leading corporate lawyer who noted that the Interstate Commerce Act could be used by the railroads. He became Attorney General and helped to stop the Pullman Strike. He later became the Secretary of State under President Cleveland. He declared to the British that by trying to dominate Venezuela they were violating the Monroe Doctrine. U.S. mediated the Venezuelan boundary dispute. | ||
| mediated by the US; when Olney declared that British were violating the Monroe Doctrine by dominating Venezuela | ||
| aggressive, nationalistic and patriotic expansion. Theodore Roosevelt, among many others, believed in this extreme form of expansion. | ||
| He was a Spanish General referred to as "Butcher" Weyler. He undertook to crush the Cuban rebellion by herding many civilians into barbed-wire reconcentration camps, where they could not give assistance to the armed insurrectionists. The civilians died in deadly pestholes. "Butcher" was removed in 1897. | ||
| He wrote a private letter to a friend concerning President McKinley and how he lacked good faith. He was forced to resign when Hearst discovered and published the letter. This publishing helped to spark the Spanish-American War. | ||
| Battleship sent by Washington in 1898 to Cuba. Sent there for basically a "friendly visit." but actually to protect and evacuate Americans if a dangerous flare up occurred. The Maine mysteriously blew up on Feb. 15, 1898 in Havana Harbor. Americans thought that the Spanish blew it up while the Spanish claimed the explosion to be accidental. This was a spark to the Spanish- American war. | ||
| The act of Congress in 1898 that stated that when the United States had rid Cuba of Spanish misrule, Cuba would be granted its freedom. | ||
| Commodore of the Pacific fleet of American ships in the Spanish-American War. He attacked the Philippines when war was declared by the US. | ||
| a group of American volunteers that formed to fight at San Juan Hill in Cuba. Many of them were cowboys, ex-convicts, and other rugged men. Colonel Leonard Wood led the group, but Theodore Roosevelt organized it. They were named "Wood's Weary Walkers" because by the time they got to Cuba to fight most of their horses were gone. | ||
| He was a revolutionary Filipino who commanded his Filipino troops to help American George Dewey to acquire Manila from Spain. He later led Filipinos against the U.S. in 1899 because of their denied freedom after the war. | ||
| formed to fight the McKinley administration's expansionist moves. Its members included, William James, Mark Twain, and Andrew Carnegie. The League claimed that it was against America's Democratic ideals to "take- over" other lands. | ||
| (1901&1903); supreme court decided that the constitution didn't always follow the flag; puerto rico and phillipines would not get the same rights as American Citizens | ||
| gave the US the right to take over the Island of Cuba if that country entered into a treaty or debt that might place its freedom in danger. gave the U.S. the right to put a naval base in Cuba to protect it and the US holdings in the Caribbean. resented very much by the Cubans. | ||
| Was the Secretary of State in 1899; dispatched the Open Door Notes to keep the countries that had spheres of influence in China from taking over China and closing the doors on trade between China and the U.S. | ||
| European Powers (G.B. and Russia) who divided areas of China's economy in 1895 | ||
| In 1899 the United States feared that countries with "spheres" in China might choose to limit or restrict trade to and from their respective areas. John Hay avoided any problems with trade by sending notes to each country who held power in China asking them to keep trade open and tariffs low. | ||
| resulted in the deaths of thousands of converted Chinese Christians, missionaries, and foreign legions. It took 5 countries' armies and four months to stop it | ||
| group of Chinese revolutionaries that despised western intervention in China | ||
| held by T.R.; symbolizes T.R's power and readiness to use military force if necessary. It is a way of intimidating countries without actually harming them. | ||
| In 1901 the United States and Great Britain created an agreement in which the United States would receive exclusive rights to construct the Panama Canal, and presumably control and fortify it. In previous years the agreement had been that the United States and Britain would build and fortify the canal jointly. | ||
| built to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a ________ Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build | ||
| organized workers who built the Panama Canal due to problems like landslides and sanitation | ||
| exterminated yellow fever caused by mosquitoes where the panama canal was built | ||
| states that the US would use the military to intervene in Latin American Affairs if needed to | ||
| (1904); __1__ attacked ___2___ b/c ___2___ had been in the Manchuna and administered victories b/c the __1__ didnt have enough men; resulted in the US losing 2 allies; __1__ and ___2___ | ||
| The meeting between Japan, Russia, and the U.S. that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the fighting between those two countries. | ||
| negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 with the Japanese government. The Japanese agreed to limit immigration, and Roosevelt agreed to discuss with the San Francisco School Board that segregation of Japanese children in school would be stopped. | ||
| In 1908 the United States and Japan signed this saying they would both honor the territorial possessions of the respective countries that were in the Pacific Ocean, and they would also uphold China's Open Door Policy. | ||
| T.R. receives Noble Peace Prize in Spain for mediation of North African disputes in 1906 thru int'l conference |
