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1
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Who did the Americas capture when they infiltrated the Filipino guerrilla camp

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Aguinaldo

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What president weighed 350 pounds

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William H. Taft

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What did Taft call the Filipineos

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Little Brown Brothers

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Who helped teach from established Christian missions in Hawaii, China, Africa, and Turkey

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Grace Roberts

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5
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What did the Phililppines trade with america

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sugar

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What two countries tore away valuable leaseholds and economic spheres of influence from

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Germany and Russia

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Who ended up helping the American people with their vivid alarm surrounding China

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Secretary of State John Hay

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8
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John Hay dispatched to all the great powers a communicatin known as what

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Open Door note

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9
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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”

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Boxers

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What did they call it when the Boxers murdered more than 200 foreiners and thousands of Chinese Christians

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The Boxer Rebellion

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Several thousand American troops dispatched from the Philipines to protect the U.S rights under what treaty?

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1844 Treaty of Wanghia

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What treaty was formally incorporated from principals that helped spare China from possible partition

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Nine Power Treaty

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13
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Who is the cowboy hero of the Cuban Campaign

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Teddy Roosevelt

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14
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What president had been elected govenor of New York

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Who sported a western style cowboy hat that made him stand out like a white crow at the Republican Convention

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Teddy Roosevelt

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Who was the odds-on choice of the democrats, meeting in Kansas City

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Willian Jennings Bryan

17
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With Chinese immigration banned, Hawaii and the Pacific coast states turned to who for cheap labor

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Philippines

18
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What association aggressively recruited Filipino workers and by the late 1920s had thousands of workers

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Hawaiin Sugar Planters Association

19
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Where would a young Filipeno wishing to immigrate first go to

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Manila

20
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What two immigrants shared the dubious honor of making up California’s agricultural workforce

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Filipino and Mexican Immigrants

21
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In 1948, if who approached a caucasian woman, he would expect reprisals-sometimes violent

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Filipeno

22
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Which group of islands sends more immigrants to American shores than any other Asian nation

A

Philippines

23
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What were the two P’s that the victory of the Republicans did not mandate for or against imperialism

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Prosperity and Protection

24
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Who pretty much reestablished slavery for the Filipinos

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Mckinley

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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

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Gaillard Cut

26
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Who was murdered by a deranged anarchist in Buffalo, New York, in September 1901

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William McKinley

27
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Who would be the youngest president in American History at 42 years of age

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Roosevelt

28
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Which president graduated from Harvard

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Roosevelt

29
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Who felt the President should take any actions in the general interest that is not specifically forbidden by the laws of the Constitution

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Roosevelt

30
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What war reignited interest in the long talked building about the Panama Canal

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The Spanish-American War

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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

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Oregon

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By what treaty could the U.S not secure exclusive control over an isthmian route

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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty

33
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What treaty gave the U.S a free hand to build the Panama Canal but conceded the right to fortify it as well

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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

34
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Which company was eager to salvage something from their costly failure of the S-shaped Panama

A

French Canal Company

35
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Who was able to drop the price of the panama canal from 109 million to 40 million

A

Philippe Banau-Varilla

36
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From whom did Russia and Germany tear away valuable leaseholds and economic spheres of influence from?

A

Manchu Government

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