Chapter Fourteen - Social. Chapter Fifteen. Chapter Sixteen. Chapter Chapter 19 and Chapter 23 Industry Comes of Age. Chapter 24 America Moves to the City. Industry and Cities Multiple Choice and Writting 1hr and 20min. Chap 26 96 points 1 hour 20min.
Chapter 27 Imperialism. Chap 27 82 questions 1hr 20min. Influenza Documentary. Chapter 31 - Politics of Boom and Bust. Chapter 32 Great Depression and the New Deal. Chapter 33 FDR and the Shadow of war. Chapter 35 WWII. The s. A GIFT!!!! Civil Rights and Women's Rights. Womens Rights Timeline. Finally, McKinley decided to keep the Philippines, even though they had been taken one day after the end of the war, but he did so because of popular public opinion and because it meshed well with business interests.
The U. Upon the U. Even the Filipinos wanted freedom, and denying that to them was un-American. However, expansionists cried that the Philippines could become another Hong Kong. The treaty passed by only one vote. In the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court barely ruled that the Constitution did not have full authority on how to deal with the islands Cuba and Puerto Rico , essentially letting Congress do whatever it wanted with them.
Basically, the cases said the island residents do not necessarily share the same rights as Americans. America could not improve Cuba that much however, other than getting rid of yellow fever with the help of General Leonard Wood and Dr. Walter Reed. In , the U. This amendment said that 1 the U. Finally, one of the happiest results of the war was the narrowing of the bloody chasm between the U. North and South, which had been formed in the Civil War.
General Joseph Wheeler was given a command in Cuba. The insurrection began on February 4, , and was led by Emilio Aguinaldo, who took his troops into guerrilla warfare after open combat proved to be useless. Stories of atrocities abounded, but finally, the rebellion was broken in when U.
Americans were alarmed, as churches worried about their missionary strongholds while businesses feared that they would not be able to export their products to China. Finally, Secretary of State John Hay dispatched his famous Open Door note, which urged the European nations to keep fair competition open to all nations willing and wanting to participate.
Fearing that the European powers would carve China up for good, now, John Hay officially asked that China not be carved. Imperialism or Bryanism in ? Theodore Roosevelt was a barrel-chested man with a short temper, large glasses, and a stubborn mentality that always thought he was right. Building the Panama Canal TR had traveled to Europe and knew more about foreign affairs than most of his predecessors, and one foreign affair that he knew needed to be dealt with was the creation of a canal through the Central American isthmus.
During the Spanish-American War, the battleship U. Oregon had been forced to steam all the way around the tip of South America to join the fleet in Cuba. Such a waterway would also make defense of the recent island acquisitions easier i. Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawaii. A Nicaraguan route was one possible place for a canal, but it was opposed by the old French Canal Company that was eager to build in Panama and salvage something from their costly failure there.
Their leader was Philippe Bunau-Varilla. TR was furious, since he wanted construction of the canal to begin before the campaign. At this point, TR and the U. On November 3, , another revolution in Panama began with the killing of a Chinese civilian and a donkey, and when Colombia tried to stop it, the U. Panama was thus recognized by the U. Panamanian zone to the U. In , construction began on the Panama Canal, but at first, problems with landslides and sanitation occurred.
Gorgas exterminated yellow fever. When TR visited Panama in , he was the first U. TR feared that if European powers interfered in the Americas to collect debts, they might then stay in Latin America, a blatant violation of the Monroe Doctrine, so he issued his Roosevelt Corollary, which stated that in future cases of debt problems, the U.
It said in effect, no one could bully Latin America except the U. When U. Roosevelt on the World Stage In , Japan attacked Russia, since Russia had been in Manchuria, and proceeded to administer a series of humiliating victories until the Japanese began to run short on men.
Therefore, they approached Theodore Roosevelt to facilitate a peace treaty. At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in , both sides met, and though both were stubborn Japan wanted all of the strategic island of Sakhalin while the Russians disagreed , in the end, TR negotiated a deal in which Japan got half of Sakhalin but no indemnity for its losses.
However, due to the Russo-Japanese incident, America lost two allies in Russia and Japan, neither of which felt that it had received its fair share of winnings. The showdown came in after the San Francisco earthquake when the city decreed that, due to lack of space, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean children should attend a special school.
Instantly, this became an international issue, but TR settled it eventually. San Francisco would not displace students while Japan would keep its laborers in Japan. The Root-Takahira Agreement pledged the U. US History. Subject X Printer-friendly version. Need Help?
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