Foreign Policy from the Civil War to WWI

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Policy asserting that there should be equal trade in Asia, specifically in China; showed the importance of American commercial influence on foreign policy

Open Door

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Doctrine justifying US intervention in the affairs of Latin American nations if their wrongdoing warranted such action; assertion that the US would act as an international policeman

Roosevelt Corollary

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Treaty between Britain and the US in 1901 in which Britain agreed to give up claims to a canal in Panama

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

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Country into which Wilson sent Marines to calm anarchy; the US took control over this country to maintain order and we remained until 1934 until troops were withdrawn as part of the Good Neighbor Policy

Haiti

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A rider to the Army Appropriations Bill, specifying the conditions under which the US could intervene in Cuba's internal affairs; later incorporated into the Cuban Constitution

Platt Amendment

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Arrangement with Japan that they would voluntarily restrict the immigration of Japanese to the US in return for which Roosevelt would discourage laws that limited Japanese immigration

Gentleman's Agreement

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Uprising of a secret group of Chinese opposed to Christians in their country; killed thousands of foreigners and Chinese in 1900; a military coalition of British, American, Russian, Japanese, and French soldiers put it down

Boxer Rebellion

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Negotiated by TR to end the Russo-Japanese war; He received the Nobel Peace Prize for it

Treaty of Portsmouth

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Tretay with the Japanese that neither the US nor the Japanese would seek territorial gain in the Pacific and both would honor the open door in China

Root-Takahira Agreement

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Group composed of men like Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie who opposed the spread of American possessions throughout the world

Anti-Imperialist League

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Country in which the US supported a revolution in 1911 to protect mining interests; Roosevelt ordered in the Marines

Nicaragua

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Metaphor of Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy trying to use diplomacy in international affairs but being willing to threaten or use force

Big Stick Diplomacy

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Added to the Declaration of War against Spain prohibiting any annexation of Spain and saying our goal was to liberate Cuba from Spain's colonial rule

Teller Amendment

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Sent around the world for a year to show the United States; naval power

Great White Fleet

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Promised Philippine independence under Wilson although it didn't happen for 30 years

Jones Act

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Shift in foreign policy under President Taft to encourage and protect US investment abroad; attempt to avoid military intervention by giving foreign countries monetary aid

Dollar Diplomacy

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Exacerbated ill will with the Japanese because of an effort to force Asian children to attend segregated schools

San Francisco School Board Incident

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Proposed foreign policy to create a customs union of trade and political stability for the Western Hemisphere

Pan Americanism

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