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Chapter 22

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Dollar Diplomacy   A policy of President William Taft to promote American economic penetration to underdeveloped nations, strengthen American influence without requiring the presence of U.S troops.  
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Isolationism   A national policy that eschews foreign alliances, such as was pro-pounded by George Washington in his "Farewell Address"  
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Open Door Policy   A policy, propounded by Secretary of State John Hay in 1899, affirming the territorial integrity of China and a policy of free trade.  
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Platt Amendment   A law, passed in 1901 and superseding the Teller Amendment, which stipulated the conditions for the withdrawal of American forces from Cuba  
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Reconcentration camps   A term that referred to the Spanish refugee camps into which Cuban farmers were herded in 1896 to prevent them from providing assistance to rebels fighting Cuban independence from Spain.  
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Teller Amendment   A rider to the 1898 was resolution with Spain whereby Congress pledged that it did not intend to annex Cuba and that it would recognize Cuban independence from Spain.  
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Insurrection   A violent uprising against an authority or government.  
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Anti-Imperialists   Insisted that since no one would consider statehood for the Philippines, it would be unconstitutional to annex them.  
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty   Britain and United States sign, concerns interoceanic canal.  
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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty   Gives United States rights to build interoceanic canal.  
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What does Roosevelt intervene in?   Expansive rights in Central America.  
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A.T. Mahan   Endorsed naval power to ensure prosperity and national security.  
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USS Maine   Generated public pressure for war against Spain.  
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U.S. annexation of Philippines   United States became formal empire.  
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Josiah Strong, Our Country   Applied social Darwinism-- "survival of the fittest"-- to justify American expansion.  
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Annexation of Hawaii   United States helped sugar planters depose Queen Liliuokalani.  
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Defeat of Spain   Opened former Spanish colonies to U.S annexation and economic penetration.  
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Roosevelt Corollary   Asserted U.S. right to military intervention in Latin America.  
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Taft's Dollar Diplomacy   Encourages U.S. government - supported investment abroad.  
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Panama Canal   Allowed U.S warships to travel swiftly between Atlantic and Pacific.  
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