Notes

Complete the
Do Now
(Debate on
the
Philippines),
then set up
your notes

1/25/2016

Roosevelts Foreign Policy (1901 - 1912)

Vocabulary:
indigenous native
catalyst something that causes/sparks an event
emerge to become apparent, important, or
prominent

Announcements
Tutorials after school Tuesday
Tracker

Philippines
Philippine Commissions
benevolent assimilation
US invested in better
roads, hospitals, schools
Policy resisted by
Filipinos and US antiimperialists
Thousands of immigrants
to Hawaii & California as
agricultural laborers

Open Door
China being partitioned
by imperialists (UK,
Germany, Russia,
Japan)
US proposes Open
Door allowing all to
trade with China
Boxer Rebellion (1900) Chinese rebellion
put down by international military (US + other
imperialists)

Roosevelt
Rough Rider in
Spanish-American War
Governor of NY,
couldnt be controlled
by political machine
Became president
when McKinley
assassinated by
anarchist

Yankee Lake
Monroe Doctrine (1823) no European
interventions in Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Corollary (1904) US will
intervene in Latin America so other nations
dont
Panama Canal (1904 1914)
Interventions in Dominican Republic (1905),
Cuba (1906), Nicaragua (1909)

Yankee Lake
Monroe Doctrine (1823) no European
interventions in Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Corollary (1904) US will
intervene in Latin America so other nations
dont
Panama Canal (1904 1914)
Interventions in Dominican Republic (1905),
Cuba (1906), Nicaragua (1909)

Dollar Diplomacy
Taft elected in 1908, continues
Roosevelts policies
Encouraged diplomacy
through investment
Attempt to buy Manchurian
Railroad (China) failed
Investments in Haiti,
Honduras, Nicaragua
military interventions when
investments threatened

Check for Understanding

1. What was the Roosevelt corollary and
how did it affect the U.S.s emerging
status as a world power?
2. What was the catalyst for the U.S. Open
Door policy?
3. What did the U.S. Philippine policy affect
indigenous peoples?
4. Why was the Caribbean called Yankee
Lake?