Today we did blog discussions again.
china and the open door policy and boxer rebellion- china was about to be taken over
unlike africa; they were not taken over because of the US' open door policy
we were worried about us because we needed to be able to trade with china
open door policy- free trade withh all country- trade with china would be available with all country
all countries agreed to support this policy
china became independent also
US saved china from take over
secretary John Hay- open door policy
boxer rebellion- rebellion by boxers in china
they revolted bc they were concerned with the influence that great britain and other countries had on there country
wanted to make china for chinese
rebeled against western patrol
dind't succeed
gave foreign countries a right to take over
we saved china not for the betterment of china but for the betterement of us
huge trading country
major battles- san juan hill
admiral sampson- head of the navy- navy did outstanding in ww1
spain was falling apart
top 3 navies in the world
size is what made a difference
our army was bad
teddy roosevelt- lead the rough riders- americans- cowboys, tough ppl
did really good in this war
kattle hill lead up to san jaun hill
actually won in kettle hill but went down in history as winning on san juan hill
san juan hill was the bloodiest battle of the war
anti-imperalist league- imperalism- when large countries take over small countries
war broke out in the philipiness
iscolationism
letting countries do what they want
we were being hypocritical
organization that preached against imperialism
against our heratage
william jennings bryan was an anti- imperalism
disbanded in 1921
large number of people who didn't want to take over other countries
panama canal-
we wanted it to get to spain
if we dind't have the panama canal we would have to go all the way around
wanted it to save a lot of time
started out with the french
made it so we didn;t have to go all the way around south america
1876 company was formed to build the canal that got permission to builld the canal through panama
panama was a colony of columbia
proposed a sea level canal
french failed at building it
many ppl were dying of yellow fever
51 miles long
we buy the canal for millions of dollars and we take over
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