Ben Flashcards
Who did the Americas capture when they infiltrated the Filipino guerrilla camp
Aguinaldo
What president weighed 350 pounds
William H. Taft
What did Taft call the Filipineos
Little Brown Brothers
Who helped teach from established Christian missions in Hawaii, China, Africa, and Turkey
Grace Roberts
What did the Phililppines trade with america
sugar
What two countries tore away valuable leaseholds and economic spheres of influence from
Germany and Russia
Who ended up helping the American people with their vivid alarm surrounding China
Secretary of State John Hay
John Hay dispatched to all the great powers a communicatin known as what
Open Door note
In 1900 a superpatriotic group in China known as the what were known for their traning in martial art, broke loose with the cry of “Kill The Foreign Devils”
Boxers
What did they call it when the Boxers murdered more than 200 foreiners and thousands of Chinese Christians
The Boxer Rebellion
Several thousand American troops dispatched from the Philipines to protect the U.S rights under what treaty?
1844 Treaty of Wanghia
What treaty was formally incorporated from principals that helped spare China from possible partition
Nine Power Treaty
Who is the cowboy hero of the Cuban Campaign
Teddy Roosevelt
What president had been elected govenor of New York
Teddy Roosevelt
Who sported a western style cowboy hat that made him stand out like a white crow at the Republican Convention
Teddy Roosevelt
Who was the odds-on choice of the democrats, meeting in Kansas City
Willian Jennings Bryan
With Chinese immigration banned, Hawaii and the Pacific coast states turned to who for cheap labor
Philippines
What association aggressively recruited Filipino workers and by the late 1920s had thousands of workers
Hawaiin Sugar Planters Association
Where would a young Filipeno wishing to immigrate first go to
Manila
What two immigrants shared the dubious honor of making up California’s agricultural workforce
Filipino and Mexican Immigrants
In 1948, if who approached a caucasian woman, he would expect reprisals-sometimes violent
Filipeno
Which group of islands sends more immigrants to American shores than any other Asian nation
Philippines
What were the two P’s that the victory of the Republicans did not mandate for or against imperialism
Prosperity and Protection
Who pretty much reestablished slavery for the Filipinos
Mckinley
What was the Culebra Cut in the southeastern section of the Panama Canal renamed for in honor of the US army corps of engineers officer who died overseeing the excavation
Gaillard Cut
Who was murdered by a deranged anarchist in Buffalo, New York, in September 1901
William McKinley
Who would be the youngest president in American History at 42 years of age
Roosevelt
Which president graduated from Harvard
Roosevelt
Who felt the President should take any actions in the general interest that is not specifically forbidden by the laws of the Constitution
Roosevelt
What war reignited interest in the long talked building about the Panama Canal
The Spanish-American War
What was the name of the battleship that was stationed on the Pacific coast at the outbreak of war in 1898, and took weeks to meet up with the U.S fleet in Cuban waters
Oregon
By what treaty could the U.S not secure exclusive control over an isthmian route
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
What treaty gave the U.S a free hand to build the Panama Canal but conceded the right to fortify it as well
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Which company was eager to salvage something from their costly failure of the S-shaped Panama
French Canal Company
Who was able to drop the price of the panama canal from 109 million to 40 million
Philippe Banau-Varilla
From whom did Russia and Germany tear away valuable leaseholds and economic spheres of influence from?
Manchu Government
