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Big Sister policy
- Foreign policy of Secretary of State James G. Blaine that getting Latin American nations behind American leadership and opening their markets to Yankee traders.
Great Rapprochement
- American diplomats finally had cultivated close cordial relations with Great Britain which would help when they were part of the Allies in WWI.
McKinley Tariff
- Made by President McKinley raising duties on Hawaiian sugar and started new effort to gain annexation of Hawaii to the U.S.
insurrectos
- Cuban insurgents who wanted freedom from the Spanish and they torched cane fields and sugar mills which hurt American interests on the island. They were now the new target of yellow journalism.
Maine
- American battleship sent to watch Cuba which blew up in Havana harbor and it was an accident but many Americans eager for war said that it was the Spanish's fault. McKinley didn't know what to do because he didn't want tension but he didn't want Cuba under the rule of Spain.
Teller Amendment
- Part of McKinley's war plans saying that when the U.S. had overthrown Spanish misrule, Cuba would be given its desired freedom.
Rough Riders
- Organized by Theodore Roosevelt that was a group of war volunteers including cowboys, ex-convicts, and former athletes.
Anti-Imperialist League
- A group in protest of American colonial oversight in the Philippines. Declined after the signing of the Treaty of Paris and after tension broke out between Filipino nationalists and American forces. Mark Twain was a member.
Foraker Act
- Gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government. The Insular Cases deemed that the Puerto Ricans were under American rule but didn't enjoy all American rights.
Insular Cases
- Said that Puerto Ricans, only limited a degree of popular government in the Foraker Act, were under American rule but didn't enjoy all American rights.
Platt Amendment
- After the U.S. withdrew from Cuba like stated in the Teller Amendment, America convinced Cuba to put this in their constitution which limited Cuba's trety-making abilities, controlled its debt, and that the U.S. was allowed to intervene with military to restore order if needed.
Open Door note
- Diplomatic letters from John Hay encouraging the great powers to respect Chinese rights established the Open Door Policy which was to ensure access to Chinese markets for the U.S.
Boxer Rebellion
- China didn't like the Open Door policty because they were being used as a door mat, leading to an uprising in China against foreign influence which was suppressed by an international force
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
- Signed between Britain and the U.S. giving the U.S. the right to build a canal in Central American. Nullified the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
Roosevelt Corollary
- Policy of "preventive intervention" made by Theodore Roosevelt which added ballast to the Monroe Doctrine, stipulating that the U.S. would have to right to intervene in domestic affairs of Latin American nations to restore order.
Root-Takahira agreement
- Between the U.S. and Japan saying that they would respect each other's territorial possessions in the Pacific and it upheld the Open Door in China.