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TR Taft and the Phillipines
Roosevelt came into office after spain ceded guam, puerto rico, the philipines, and kind of cuba.
He basically inherited Mckinley's attempts to assimilate them with Taft as Governor General of the Philipines. also improve education and sanitation. -
TR takes office
September 14, 1901 McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt takes over the office and becomes president -
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
November 18, 1901 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain gives US the right to build the Panama Canal -
Panamain Revolution and Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
November 3, 1903 Panamian revolution against Columbia
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US control of Canal Zone in Panama for $10 milllion and 250,000 annual payment
TR helps rebels with money and naval blockade to keep Columbian troops from landing in panama. -
TR's Corollary
1904 Roosevelt Corollary added on to the Monroe Doctrine
- after Germany and Britain sent ships to Venezuela to collect debt.
also debt in Dominican Republic
-stated that the U.S. would intervien in any economic problems in Latin America and not allow them to go into debt. -
Russo-Japanese War
February 8, 1904 Russo-Japanese War starts August 1905 Roosevelt mediates Russo-Japanese war.
Portsmouth peace treaty signed says Japan gets korea and manchuria but Russia didn't have to pay indemnities.
Leaves U.S. able to stay accecable to Asian Affairs with treaty compromises. -
SF japanese education crisis
1906 San Francisco Japanese education crisis.
Influx of Japanese from Russo-Jap war flooded Califorian schools plus 1906 earthquake equals school board wanting to segregate. TR gets school to repeal school order and accept gentlemens agreement. -
Moracco Arbitraion/ Algercias Congerence in Spain
Moracco Arbitration
-between france, britain and germany with U.S. mediating
-germany allowed france to keep its claim to morracco and britain gained control of egypt. -
gentlemens agreement
1907-1908 “gentlemen’s agreement” : California’s withdraw the offensive school order and Tokyo agreed to stop the flow of laborers to the American mainland by withholding passports -
Great White Fleet
Great white fleet tour basically TR sent out the enlarged and powerful navy around the world to show off and establish the U.S. as a strong imperial power, not to be messed with -
Root-Takahira agreement
Great White Fleet trip stopped at Japan
they were really nive and sang the "star-spangled banner" so we signed a treaty agreeing to respect each other's territorial pocessions in the pacific an withhold the Open Door in China.
