Answer: The United States had taken possession of the Philippines (as well as Guam and Puerto Rico) in 1898, after winning the Spanish-American War. Thus US interest in Asia was heightened.
At the same time, other nations had begun competing for "spheres of influence" in trade access with China.
Further detail:
The Open Door policy was issued by the United States in 1899-1900 as a series of dispatches from the US Secretary of State to other nations that had trading interests in China -- Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia. The policy reasserted earlier agreements that all countries should have equal access to ports in China, without undue preference to "spheres of influence" for one nation or another. The United States was seeking to maintain an equal footing with other nations in the access to trade in China.
Bleeding Kansas (1855-1861) consisted of millions of dollars in property damage, and dozens dead, due to the onslaught of violence from pro-slavery Border Ruffians who clashed with Free-Staters (jayhawkers) on the matter of slavery. Eventually, this would lead to the voting of slavery's justification in Kansas, but obviously the popular sovereignty was coated in blood.
Teddy Roosevelt was also known as the trust buster. He helped to stop the monopolies and the robber barons.
The reason there was a racial split in the Methodist church was so that А. African Americans wanted a separate organization to develop their own leaders.
<h3>Why was there a split in the Methodist Church?</h3>
After Reconstruction, African American members of the Methodist Church decided to form their own organization.
The reason they did this was to allow them to ordain their own leaders without influence from the White dominated Methodist Church. It is worthy of note that they were supported in this endeavor by the Methodist Church.
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