AMERICAN HISTORY STUDY GUIDE
4.7 – The United States Emerges as a World Power (200-208)
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A. U.S. Trade and Intervention in China OBJECTIVE: Analyze how economic concerns influenced the Open Door Policy and US relations with Japan. | |
1. How was China divided among European powers? [p 200]
| 1. Introduction 1. sphere of influence |
2. Create a flowchart to show the cause, events, and effects of the Boxer Rebellion. [p 200]
| 2. A Call for Equality in Commerce 2. John Hay 3. The U.S. Intervenes in the Boxer Rebellion 3. The Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Boxers) 4. Boxer Rebellion 5. indemnity |
3. Explain how the Secretary of State, John Hay, sought to increase American trade in China. [p 201] | 4. The Open Door Policy 6. John Hay 7. Open Door Policy |
B. Roosevelt Works With Japan OBJECTIVE: Analyze how economic concerns influenced the Open Door Policy and US relations with Japan. | |
4. Create a flowchart of events beginning with Europeans carving up China that excluded Japan from trade to TR’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. [p 201]
| 1. Introduction 8. Port Arthur, China 2. Resolving the Russo-Japanese War 9. Russo-Japanese War |
5. Explain why TR made the Gentlemen’s Agreement. [p 202] | 3. Racial Prejudice Affects Foreign Relations 10. Gentlemen’s Agreement |
6. Why did TR send the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour? [p 202]
| 4. The Great White Fleet Shows Naval Power 11. Great White Fleet |
C. American Foreign Policy in Latin America OBJECTIVE: Examine what happened to Puerto Rico and Cuba after the Spanish-American War. | |
7. Why might some historians consider the call of US leaders to make Latin America a sphere of influence of the USA hypocritical? [p 202] | 1. Introduction -- |
8. Describe the 3 main advances in Puerto Ricans’ rights under US rule. [p 203] | 2. Foreign Policy Decisions in Puerto Rico 12. Foraker Act 13. Insular Cases 14. Jones-Shafroth Act |
9. Create a bulleted list of the requirements of Cuba under the Platt Amendment. [p 203] | 3. Relations with Cuba 15. Platt Amendment 16. protectorate |
D. “Big Stick” Diplomacy OBJECTIVE: Analyze the effects of Roosevelt’s “big stick” diplomacy and Taft’s “dollar diplomacy.” | |
10. Describe TR’s “Big Stick” diplomacy. [p 204] | 1. Introduction 17. Big Stick Diplomacy |
11. Create a flowchart to show the history of the construction of the Panama Canal. [p 204]
| 2. Physical and Human Geographic Factors Impact the Panama Canal 18. De Lesseps ** 19. Suez Canal ** 20. Canal Zone 21. Panama Canal 22. Gatun Lake 23. yellow fever ** 24. William Gorgas ** 25. Walter Reed ** |
12. Explain the purpose of TR’s “Roosevelt Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. [p 205] | 3. American Expansionism Requires an Updated Monroe Doctrine 26. Roosevelt Corollary |
13. What was Latin America’s response to US paternalism as shown in the Roosevelt Corollary? [p 205]
| 4. The Latin American Response 27. Augusto Sandino 28. Sandinistas ** |
14. Explain how Taft altered TR’s foreign policy in Latin America and the results of this change. [p 205] | 5. Taft’s Foreign Policies Lead to “Dollar Diplomacy” 29. William Howard Taft 30. Dollar Diplomacy 31. “dollars for bullets” |
E. Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy” OBJECTIVE: Wilson’s “moral diplomacy” with the foreign policies of his predecessors. | |
15. Explain how Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy differed from TR & Taft’s. [p 206] | 1. Introduction -- 2. A New Emphasis on Foreign Policy 32. Moral Diplomacy (Missionary Diplomacy) |
16. Create a cartoon strip of US intervention in Mexico. [p 207] | 3. Revolution Grips Mexico 33. Porfirio Diaz 34. Francisco Madero 35. Victoriano Huerta 36. Venustiano Carranza 4. Intervention in Mexico 37. Francisco “Pancho” Villa 38. Emiliano Zapata ** 39. Gen. John J. Pershing |