American Influence

Elyssa Thomas,Matthew, and Gavin Robertson Open Door Policy

● statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900 for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China ● Created trade opportunities with China while asserting American interests in the Far East. AKA allowed the United States to expand its markets for industrialized goods. ● Wanted to monopolize trade and America feared that China would break up into segments and lead to complete division of the country and colony. The boxers began to increase their strength in the provinces of North China. The boxers goal was to deflect foreign influence. ○ Aka led to Boder rebellion Open door policy

● Increased Chinese backlash against foreigners. Chinese and American conflict with Japan. Increased US interest in East Asia. ● China could trade with other countries thus growing economically. ● Proposed by U.S. Secretary of State John Hay and supported by President William McKinley ● After the Boxer Rebellion of 1899-1901 failed to drive foreign interests from China, Russia invaded the Japanese-held Chinese region of Manchuria. In 1902, the administration of U.S. President protested the Russian incursion as a violation of the Open Door Policy

Big Stick policy

● “Speak softly and carry a big stick” ● Changed from isolationism ● New policy by Theodore Roosevelt on addressing foreign policy ● Meant to use diplomacy if that bails them military action ● Used in acquiring ● Canal-building rights over Britain with Hay-Pavnecept treaty (1901) ● Big stick Panama Canal continued

● Freed panama from Columbia after exchange to buy it had fallen through ● This led to ● Great white fleet,warships used to show power ● Roosevelt, (1905) ,Russian Japanese peace treaty ● Americans knew they needed this to move ships from east to west quickly. If they did that, they would control power because they would control the oceans. The Canal was a geopolitical strategy to make the United States the most powerful nation on earth. Also, the economic impact was massive Panama Canal still

● Opened in 1914 and allowed ships easy access to Caribbean from Pacific ● Allowed US influence on countries in that area and in Panama ● Shopping supplies across countries by boat became vastly quicker ● Held onto canal until 1999 when it was given back ● Connection to newly earned countries such as : Philippines, , and

Roosevelt Corollary

● DescriptionThe Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–1903. ● it asked that Europeans not increase their influence or recolonize any part of the Western Hemisphere ● stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.” Roosevelt Corollary continued

● As the corollary worked out in practice, the United States increasingly used military force to restore internal stability to nations in the region. Roosevelt declared that the United States might “exercise international police power in ‘flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence.’” ● long term the corollary had little to do with relations between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it did serve as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Roosevelt Corollary again

● Increased influence into many countries ●