COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
IMPERIALISM IN ASIA
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The United states was opposed to European countries taking Chinese territory.
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The United States dictated how the territories would be divided.
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The United States took control of territory that would help their trade.
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The United States did not take territory but proposed open trade.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. The correct answer is C) the United States did not take territory, but proposed open trade. The United States role in carving out spheres of influence in China was that the United States did not take territory, but proposed open trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Open Door policy-first initiated in 1899, with a follow-up missive in 1900-was significant in its attempt by the United States to establish an international protocol of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and to support China’s territorial and administrative integrity.
Detailed explanation-3: -U.S. government and business leaders feared being left out of the China trade. To protect American interests, Secretary of State John Hay proposed an Open Door policy. It gave each nation rights to trade freely in each other’s sphere of influence. At first, the other powers did not accept the policy.
Detailed explanation-4: -It felt threatened by other powers’ much larger spheres of influence in China and worried that it might lose access to the Chinese market if it were to be partitioned. As a response, William Woodville Rockhill formulated the Open Door Policy to safeguard American business opportunities and other interests in China.
Detailed explanation-5: -Following its loss of the two Opium Wars, China entered a period where foreign imperial powers developed ‘spheres of influence’ within its borders. Each of the following nations developed and established ‘spheres of influence’ in China after the mid-1800s: France, Britain, Germany, Russia and Japan.