M O N D A Y -
BOXER REBELLION:
- Over various wars with western powers, Japan, etc.
- Chine was losing power because of different rebellions occuring
- the rebellion was led by the Boxers and started in Northern China and crept to the Beijing area
- Boxers killed Chinese Christains and Christains missionaraies and destroyed churches and railroads
- Were nicknamed "Boxers" because tehy were violent/physical
- Towards the end ost pivitol paoint was seige of Beijing
- June 20, 1900 Boxers laid seige on it
- Qing Emprss declared a war on all foreign nations w ties to China
- Siege lasted weeksw hundreds of foreigners dead and Chinese Christiains
- SIEGE= Surronding a city into submissION
- Foreign Rebuttle
- 20,000 troops from eight nations
- Rebellion ended in Sept. 1901 w signing of Boxer protocol
- Boxer and Chinese government officials were punished
- China couldn't import arms for two years and had to pay 300 million dollars + to nations involved
- This all led it to go from Qing Dynasty - to - Republic of China (which also ended 1928)
OPEN DOOR POLICY:
- British and American people were both interested in China
- They decided their interests were best protected by a formal agreement
- Countries interestd in China- USA, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Japan
- ODP provided that-
- Powers would maintainfree access to treaty ports (FREE ACCESS TO TRADE W CHINA)
- ONLY Chinese gov could collect taxes on tarde
- No exemptions form harbor dues and railroad charges
- Britain and Japan agreed w USA
- Every other country was releuctant to agree
- Russia made stipulations
- No formal agreeents
- Hay declared that the agreements were final and definitive
- Boxer Rebellion made it difficult for open door policy(bc BR was an anti-foreign movement)
T U E S D A Y -
Segregation:
- Education is set up to be like a factory in the 1800's RWA (reading, writing, math)
- Industrial system
- Brown case (dessegregation ended)
- Segregation is: and examples- literacy test, entertainment
Progressives:
- Helped factory workers by; worksman compensation, 8 hour work day,
- Pure food and drug act, benefitted consumers
- WHAT ACTS DID PROGRESSIVES PASS STILL IMPACTING US TODAY? womens right to vote, income tax, fedral trade commission (anti-trust), federal reserve bank
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
- Spanish american war- us won, we got puerto rico, guam and philippines..then the phillipine war broke out
- Caues of Spanish American War-
- America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule
- Mysterious explosion of US ship
- OPEN DOOR POLICY: Free tarde w China
- We stuggled w Panama canal; columbia didn't want us, then we sent navy down and panama got independence and gve us the right to build it
- ISSUES W MEXICO-Panchovia, tampico affair, (describe these) !!!!!!
- HAWAII/ALASKA-
- Diplomacy- which diplomacy goes w what cartoon
W E D N E S D A Y -
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T H U R S D A Y -
Central Powers (bad guys):
- Not that bad, not like WWI
- War of imperialism
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
- Germany was the ost powerful of the four^ Young country, second most powerful country in the world (behind GB), had great ground troops, lots of land etc.
- Austria-Hungary was a failing nation (crumbling) so was Ottoman Empire
Allied Powers (good guys):
- Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, USA (big 6)
F R I D A Y -
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