US Foreign Policy in Latin America
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This ended military rule and set up a civil government in Puerto Rico, which became a protectorate of the United States?

What is the Foraker Act?

100

U.S. Secretary of State that helped shaped the US early influence in Asia.

Who is John Hay?

100

The U.S. was set free from the shackles of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 with Britain, through this treaty, which gave the U.S. the right to build and fortify a canal across the isthmus of Panama.

What is the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty?

100

Famous Thanksgiving Day Parade that can be seen on TV Thursday morning? (Parade Name & Where is it held?) 

What is New York's Macy Day Parade? 

100

To create stability abroad for the benefit of U.S. commercial interests is this President's policy goal. (president & policy)

What is President Taft's Dollar Diplomacy?

200

What situation prompted the U.S. government to actively encourage a 1903 revolt in Central America?


What is Colombia refusing to ratify an agreement allowing construction of the Panama Canal?

200

The foreign policy initiatives of President Wilson?

What is Moral Diplomacy?

200

Puerto Ricans and Filipinos were subject to American rule, but did not enjoy all American rights, as determined by what, which ruled that the Constitution did not automatically apply to people in acquired territories.

What are the Insular Cases?

200

The goal of this policy is equal access to trade in areas of China controlled by foreign governments?

What is the Open Door Policy?

200

A visible demonstration of United States’ ability to defend its international interests

What is the President Roosevelt's Great White Fleet voyage? 

300

President Taft’s arrangement for U.S. bankers to loan Nicaragua money to pay off its debts to foreign creditors is an example of what policy?

What is Dollar diplomacy?

300

The people of the Philippines were led by this person in an unsuccessful 3-year war against U.S. troops, hoping to gain their independence.

Who is Emilio Aguinaldo

300

The early twentieth-century foreign policy development is associated with the Central American region and a famous US President.

What is the Big Stick Policy?

300

Letters that the US Sec. of State wrote with the goal of equal access to trade in areas of China controlled by foreign governments 

What are the Open Door Notes?

300

Japan received half of Sakhalin Island and Russia agreed to let Japan take over Russian interests in Manchuria and Korea, as part of this treaty, ending the Russo-Japanese war. President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his successful work in its negotiation.

What is Treaty of Portsmouth?

400

Latin American countries defaulting on their debts to foreign nations prompted this in US foreign policy.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

400

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the U.S. military to invade Mexico to stop which of the following guerilla fighters?

Who is Pancho Villa?

400

Fear of the ramifications of Latin American countries defaulting on debts to foreign investors led to this addition to the Monroe Doctrine, which explained that if Latin American countries continued to default, the U.S. would pay off their debts, take over their customs houses, and keep the European creditors on their side of the Atlantic.

What is the Roosevelt Corollary?

400

This resulted in brutal attacks on foreign-owned properties and foreign people in China, including U.S. interests, because the Open Door policy attempted to secure for the United States the same power enjoyed by other Western countries in China.

What is the Boxer Rebellion?

400

It is in the best interest of the United States to intervene in nations whose political stability is threatened. 

*This is what president's foreign policy? *What part of the world (what hemisphere North,East,South,West?)

What is President's Roosevelt's foreign policy for the Western Hemisphere?

500

The foreign policy initiatives of Theodore Roosevelt.

What is Big Stick Diplomacy?
500

The foreign policy initiatives of Presidents McKinley is.

What is the Open Door Policy?

500

The correct chronology of the foreign policy initiatives of Presidents McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson?

What is Open Door Policy, Big Stick Diplomacy, Dollar Diplomacy, Moral Diplomacy

500

The foreign policy initiative of President Taft.

What is Dollar Diplomacy?

500

President Theodore Roosevelt involved the US in the Dominican Republic’s affairs when that country defaulted on its debt payments. (What part of policy & its goal?)

What is the Monroe Doctrine and the US goal to prevent the possible intervention of European nations?