RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN

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RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN AND THE RISE OF ARBITRATION
American opinion of Britain was sharply divided
along class lines, with the upper classes and
governing elites favoring close ties with Britain
because of their racial and cultural
similarities, and the lower classes--and,
generally, the Midwestern middle class--opposing
Britain because of traditional American
Anglophobia or sympathy with the Irish.
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RELATIONS WITH BRITAIN AND THE RISE OF ARBITRATION
By the end of the 19th century, the British were
interested in consolidating their hold over key
pieces of their empire--especially South Africa
and the Middle East--even if that meant giving up
control over or interest in other parts of the
world. This shift in British policy generally
worked to the advantage of the United States.
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Venezuela -- British Guiana dispute Orinoco River
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Grover Cleveland
Lord Salisbury
Richard Olney
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South Africa in 1899 Boers/Afrikaners
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
(1801-1922)
Fenian Brotherhood
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Wilfrid Laurier
William Howard Taft
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... all English-speaking peoples united by race,
language, and religion, should regard war as the
one absolutely intolerable mode of settling the
domestic differences of the Anglo-American
family. -- Anglo-American Memorial, petition
by group of British citizens to British Foreign
Office, 1896
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Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
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1872 - Washington Treaty 11 January 1897 -
General Arbitration Treaty (US and Britain) 1899
- First Hague Conference Permanent Court of
Arbitration 1907 - Second Hague Conference