Open Door Policy

Examples of Open Door Policy in the following topics:

• The Open Door Policy

  • The Open Door Policy aimed to keep the Chinese trade market open to all countries on an equal basis.
  • The "Open Door Policy" refers to a U.S. doctrine established in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, as expressed in Secretary of State John Hay's "Open Door Note," dated September 6, 1899, and dispatched to the major European powers.
  • As a response, William Woodville Rockhill formulated the Open Door Policy to safeguard American business opportunities and other interests in China.
  • The Open Door Policy stated that all nations, including the United States, could enjoy equal access to the Chinese market.
  • Although treaties made after 1900 refer to the Open Door Policy, competition among the various powers for special concessions within China for railroad rights, mining rights, loans, foreign trade ports, and so forth, continued unabated.

• The United States and the World

  • US Secretary of State John Hay endorsed the Open Door Policy, under which all foreign powers would exercise equal economic power in the East.

• Attempts at Disarmament

  • The Nine-Power Treaty affirmed the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy (keeping China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis, keeping any one power from total control of the country).

• The Muckrakers

  • Muckrakers were writers and journalists who engaged in investigative reporting, often exposing corruption and influencing policy.
  • The work of early muckrakers opened the door for journalists today to cover a wide array of legal, social, ethical and public policy concerns.

• Progressivism for Whites Only

  • Many leaders had racist and xenophobic attitudes and policies that oppressed marginalized groups at the same time as enacting "progressive" reforms.
  • Samuel Gompers, founder of the AFL, opened the Federation to radical and socialist workers and to some semiskilled and unskilled workers.
  • While the AFL preached a policy of egalitarianism in regard to African American workers, by 1912, it was actively discriminating against them.
  • Such racist policies in the AFL did not only apply to African Americans.
  • The sign next to the iron door reads, "Notice—Communist, Nihilist, Socialist, Fenian & Hoodlum welcome.

• The Panic of 1837

  • Millions also migrated to fertile farmlands of the Midwest, and new roads and waterways opened up new markets for western farm products.
  • The Panic of 1837 was influenced by the economic policies of President Jackson.
  • In this cartoon, an unemployed man, unable to provide food for his family, greets a rent collector at his front door.

• Social Justice

  • Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened its doors to the recently arrived European immigrants.
  • Describe how Progressives attempted to achieve social justice with welfare policies

• A New Direction for Unions

  • The CIO formed unions with the hope of bringing them into the AFL, but in the end, the AFL rejected the idea of a more open and inclusive form of organization that would unionize workers regardless of craft or skills.
  • Above all, the new form of organization finally opened the door to mainstream organized labor to black workers, who usually occupied unskilled industrial jobs (excluded from the AFL's form of organization).
  • However, Lewis, a devoted neutralist, opposed Roosevelt on foreign policy grounds and questioned Roosevelt’s decision to run for the third term in 1940.

• Tenements and Overcrowding

  • In both rookeries and purpose-built tenements, communal water taps and water closets (either privies or "school sinks," which opened into a vault that often became clogged) were squeezed into what open space there was between buildings.
  • All the fresh air that ever enters these stairs comes from the hall-door that is forever slamming, and from the windows of dark bedrooms that in turn receive from the stairs their sole supply of the elements God meant to be free, but man deals out with such niggardly hand.
  • But the saloon, whose open door you passed in the hall, is always there.
  • Here is a door.
  • They mean that the soiled bow of white you saw on the door downstairs will have another story to tell--Oh!

• A Strained Neutrality

  • When the war began, the U.S. proclaimed a policy of strict neutrality—"in thought and deed", as President Woodrow Wilson put it.
  • President Woodrow Wilson looking out his door at howling dog labeled "Jingo"; representing those in the U.S. eager to join the Great War against Germany contrary to the administration's policy of neutrality.