Thurgood Marshall appointed to Supreme Court

China's Boxer Rebellion

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  Lesson 4: Imperialism and the Open Door

  In 1899 and 1900, Secretary of State John Hay issued what became known as the Open Door Notes to foreign powers involved in China. Secretary Hay called on those powers to respect the rights of each other, to agree to an open market and equal trading opportunities for merchants of all nationalities, and to respect the territorial and administrative integrity of China.

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W. B. Yeats, Irish poet, is born

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  Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies

  Through close reading and textual analysis of Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel about the British colonization of Nigeria, students learn how oral, linguistic, and literary strategies are used to present one’s own story and history through literature.

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