Entering the Roosevelt Era

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Entering the Roosevelt Era
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Solving the Philippine problem

• Why the fight?
• End result and why?
• McKinleys benevolent assimilation.

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Open Door policy

• Creator.
• Intent.
• World reaction.
• Boxer Rebellion and its impact.
• Commercial v. territorial protection.

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TR assumes the Throne

• Why VP?
• Election of 1900.
• Bryans Stance
• Freedom
• McKinleys (TR) Stance
• Duty to civilize

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Election Results 1900
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"I killed the President because he was the enemy
of the good people-the good working people. I am
not sorry for my crime. --Leon Czolgosz
(Oct. 29, 1901)
Thats Chol-gosh, hes Polish
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The Panama Canal Issue

• Why was it needed?
• Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901. Neutral, open to
  all, rates fair and equal
• Nicaragua v. Columbia (Panama)
• Philippe Bunau-Varilla and his role.
• Revolution.
• Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty.
• Roosevelt and the Navys role.

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Philippe Bunau-Varilla
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TR and the Monroe Doctrine

• Roosevelt Corollary of the Monroe Doctrine.
  preventive intervention
• European reaction. - minimal
• Latin American reaction. - angry

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TR and the Nobel Peace Prize

• Russo-Japanese War of 1905.
• Implications and relations with the Japanese.
• Root-Takahira agreement.
• Great White Fleet.