Chapter XXVIII: America on World Stage

REVISED

  1. What was a "cross-eyed kakiak ladrone?" What did they have to do with William H. Taft?
  2. How did the Open Door Policy come about? What did it say? Why was it so unimportant in 1900? Why did it become so important by 1941?
  3. Why did the Boxers revolt in China in 1900? How did their activities complicate relationships between countries which had economic and social interests in China?
  4. Why did Teddy Roosevelt get to be the Vice-President in 1901? Why did he get to be President in the same year? How was his political style so different from his predecessors?
  5. What did Philippe Bunau-Varilla have to do with the DeLessups Company? Why was his work so important for the building of the Panama Canal?
  6. How did George Goethals and William Gorgas help in the building of the Canal?
  7. How was the Roosevelt Corollary a major change in direction for United States foreign policy? Was it a wise decision?
  8. Why did T.R. become embroiled with European powers over the Moroccan crisis of 1905?
  9. Why did T.R. receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906?
  10. How did the San Francisco School Board provoke an international crisis with the Japanese in 1906? What was the ultimate diplomatic compromise agreed to the Japanese and the U.S.?
  11. Why did the Gentlemen's Agreement encourage T.R. to send the Great White Fleet around
    the world? Why was the world so worried about the voyage? What was the result?
  12. Identify:
    • Tsushima
    • Treaty of Portsmouth
    • Nicholas II
    • Eugene Schmitz
    • W.J. Bryan
    • John Hay
    • The Big Stick
    • Leon Czolgosz
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