TEST 1 BOOKTERMS BOOK TERMS Monroe Doctrine Introduction 3 anit imperialist groups were led by Senactor Carol Schurz writer Mark Twain and newspaper editor E L Godkin were more interested in bettering America s domestic institutions than acquiring territories Godkin fought against the acquisition of Santo Domingo because he declared that country had 200 000 ignorant Catholic Spanish Negros Americans colored their realistic drive for imperialism or empire with idealistic labels emphasizing destiny progress and the spread of civilization Manifest Destiny Introduction 4 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Introduction 5 Alfred Thayer Mahan 2 His writings on sea power influenced thinking of German Japanese and Americans but mainly Theodore Roosevelt Also called for bases expanded commerce and an isthmian canal Senator Henry Cabot Lodge R Massachusetts 3 Declared in 1895 the great nations are rapidly absorbing for their future expansion and their present defense all the waste places of the earth It is a movement which makes for civilization and the advancement of the race As one of the great nations of the world He warned the U S must not fall out of line of march Cuba and the Yellow Press 3 5 It was encouraged by the warlike jingoes and the sensationalist news stories carried by burgeoning The recon centration camps soon fell prey to a major development in the U S news reporting team yellow journalism William Randolph Hearset bought the struggling New York Journal and prepared to challenge New York World for top circulation in the country Hearset hired Fredric Remington to go to Cuba to bring back drawings of the war of his own He couldn t locate the war and Hearset said you furnish the pictures and I furnish the war Spain emerged to the yellow press as the stole perpetrator of atrocity in Cuba arousing strong sentiment for the U S intervention to ensure the islands independence Hearst paper set the tone by describing Weyler the soldier the brute the devastator of haciendas the destroyer of families and the outrage of women pitiless cold an exterminator of men Pulitzers newspaper blood on the roadside blood in the fields blood on the doorsteps blood blood blood Hearsets journal picked up a story about a Cuban girl named Evangelina Cisneros who was thrown into prison allegedly after fending off the advances of her male Spanish captors Thousands of American women appealed for help by signing a petition and dismissing the Spanish Minister claim that Hearset had fabricated the story A reporter of Hearset s finally wen to Havana and freed her by sawing through the jail bars and disguising her as a boy and brought her to the U S Washington D C and New York city s madison square garden hosted great receptions in her honor Missouri s mockingly suggested that Hearset send 500 reporters to liberate the entire island Spanish officers search 3 Cuban women suspected to be carrying rebel mail packets and it was Remington s fabricated sketch of a nude female standing before leering Spanish officers Remington said Does our flag protect women Investors had lost 50million dollars in sugar and tobacco production and in iron and manganese mines and other enterprises and trade between the countries had reached as high as 100 million dollars in an exceptional year A large number of daily newspapers from both political camps became allies in denouncing Spanish oppression and urging reform Valeriano Weyler 4 5 Feb 1896 Spain s new captain general sought to destroy the rebels rural quarters by dividing the island into districts and establishing recon centration centers Surrounded barbwire all around the north and west side of Cuba and anyone refusing to go along was shot He became known as BUTCHER OR WOLF because he led to a widespread of hunger and disease that took lives of mostly women and kids and a large amount of Cubans Boxer Rebellion 26 Hay ignored the Russians response and announced in march 1900 that the powers unanimous decision to respect the Open Door had made the policy statement final and definitive Chinas problems did not end with Hay s Open Door pronouncements depending on the eign involvement ultimately led to an outbreak of fierce nationalist resistance against outsiders The Manchu dynasty would finally collapse in 1911 was incapable of defending its homeland IHOCHUAN Righteous and Harmonious Fists Armed themselves with spears and swords and led insurrection against foreigners now isolated in legation section of peeking Hundreds of missionary s and Christian converts fell in the bloody rebellion as the boxers allied with imperil solders and apparently encourage by the Manchu government laid on siege on the foreigners now isolated in the legation section of peaking The U S decided to take action when other powers prepared to send troops to save Peeking BRIATAIN FRANCE GERMANY JAPAN RUSSIA ALL TOGETHER HAD 15 000 TROOPS July 1900 urged respect for that nations territorial and administrative entity and called the interested powers to safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire The open door did not save china because of mutual distrust among the interested powers held them all at bay The U S policy toward china lightened the impact of the boxer rebellion on the growth of foreign influence in the country Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty 37 38 After the new republic had received U S recognition it appointed BUNAU VARILLA as Envoy Extraordinary and Minster Plenipotentiary to initiate treaty discussions aimed at granting rights to build fortify and operate transoceanic canal Panama government sent Amador and two others to complete the treaty in Washington Had instructions forbidding BUNAU VARILLA from agreeing to any terms that endangered Panamas Sovereignty He was not allowed to draft any treaty with out three emissaries you will proceed in everything strictly in agreement with them But neither the instruction nor the three Panamanians arrived on time so BUNAU VARILLA had taken the treaty to his hotel room revising the terms to make them more attractive to the U S senate A few hours before they had arrived in the capital BUNAU VARILLA and HAY had signed the treaty It guaranteed the U S a ten mile wide strip of land through Panama which became the Canal Zone The U S received extremely broad powers in the zone connecting the two cities Article 1 states the U S guarantees and will maintain the independence of Republican of Panama The U S government