Transcript America on the World Stage

America on the World Stage
Pt 1: 646-657
Philippines
• Revolutionaries practiced terrorist attacks
• Us troops used torture
• Taft made Governor, called them his “little
brown brothers”
• Soldiers “he may be a brother of Big Bill
Taft, But he ain’t no brother of mine.”
• Assimilation: teachers, roads, sanitation,
English
China
• US involved with many missionaries,
looked for trade
• Hay organizes “Open Door” for all involved
• US, Britain, Germany, Japan, France, Italy
all have their own “sphere of influence”
• “Boxers” tried to kick out Westerners
• West sends in soldiers to rescue
missionaries and stop Boxers
Election of 1900
• Republicans re-nominate McKinley (won
the war, new land, Gold Standard) along
w/war hero VP Roosevelt (there’d be only
one heartbeat between the presidency and
that madman)
• WJ Bryan again Dem. Nominee (antiimperialism
• Roosevelt gets out the vote
• McKinley wins easily
Teddy Roosevelt
• Only six months into his term, McKinley
assassinated by an anarchist
• Teddy Roosevelt the next president
• Believes in a strong navy
• “Speak softly and carry a big stick”
• Roosevelt a new type of president
Panama Canal
• New naval reality showed more clearly the
need for a canal
• Hay Pouncefote Treaty gave US exclusive
rights to build a canal…but where?
• French failed canal route for sale
• When Columbia tried to raise the price for
the land, TR sends a gun boat to help
Panama win its independence from
Columbia
Panama Canal
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Gorgas beats the mosquito
Stephens designs a reasonable canal
Goethals finishes the job
Right technology, right time
Roosevelt Corollary
• Not only are we the protector (army) of the
Americas, but also the preventer of
problems (police force) for Latin American
nations
• Known to take over in instability, financial
or violence
• Dom Rep in 1905, Cuba 1906 etc…
• Caribbean=The American Lake
Nobel Peace Prize
• T Roosevelt settles a war between Russia
and Japan over Manchuria
• First American citizen to win Nobel Prize
• Treaty of Portsmouth
• Unfavorable results hurt our relationship
with Russia
San Francisco School Board
• Segregation of Asian students in San
Francisco schools led to a protest by the
Japanese gov’t
• TR forces school board to back down (not
his turf)
• Japan makes “gentlemen’s agreement” to
stop sending workers
Great White Fleet