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The Quest for an Empire
Hist 1378 Test 1
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09/25/2011

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Sanford Dole/Queen Liliuokalani

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QL- 1893 group of American planters organized a rebellion that overthrew the hwaii govn. Harrison submitted treaty of annexation of the senate, and when hawiians didnt favor it, his sucessor Grover Cleveland withdrew it. 
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Alfred Mahan, Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890)

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Navalism:

Foreign trade vital to US. Ocean were like highways

-Navy necessary to protect “highway of the seas”

-Navy requires naval bases around the world. Ships need coal whenever necessary and ect.

-canal that would connect Central America for trade

-Theodore Roosevelt liked his ideals very much and agreed.

 

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yellow press

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in the late 1890's, Joseph Pulitzer's 'New York World' dubbed yellow press by their critics after the color due ti them selling millions of copies each day by mixing sensational accounts of crime and political corruption with aggresive appeals to patriotic sentiments. 
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Open Door policy (1899)

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Referred to the free movement of goods and money, not people. 
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Emilio Aguinaldo

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: fought Spain and then the US for Filipino indep. 
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Platt Amendment (1901)

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McKinley forced the isalnd's new govn to approve the Platt Amendment to the new Cuban constitution (drafted by Senator Orville H. Platt of Conn.) which authorized the US to intervene military whenever it saw fit. 
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Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

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Doctrine of 1823- held that the US ahd the right to exercise 'an international police power ' in the western hemp
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