America on the World Stage 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 1894-1895: Russia and Germany move into China John Hay Open Door 1900: China’s “boxers”

Imperialism or Bryanism in 1900? McKinley: Election of 1900 Republican “Bryanism” Theodore Roosevelt: VP William Jennings Bryan Democrat Anti-imperialism McKinley Wins

Teddy Roosevelt: Brandisher of the Big Stick Sept. 1901: McKinley murdered Theodore Roosevelt President No respect for the checks and balance system Where’s Teddy??

Colombia Blocks the Canal Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Ocean 1850: Clayton-Bulwer Treaty 1901: Hay-Pauncefote Treaty Colombia

Uncle Sam Creates Puppet Panama Nov. 3, 1903: Bunau-Varilla Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Completing the Canal and Appeasing Colombia 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 1904: Construction on Panama Canal begins 1914: Completed $400 million

TR’s Perversion of Monroe’s Doctrine 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 “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 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Japanese arrive to California 1884 Japan repealed law prohibiting Japanese people emigrating to other nations This lead to many Japanese people going to California, they were received harshly by the local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