Jacci Simon Richard Kim History 7b 14 October 2014 First Open Door Note In 1879, John Hay became an author and statesman of the United States of America. Initially, Hay’s appointed responsibility was to assist Abraham Lincoln in his serving time of the election presidency but, Hay’s major achievement had not placed a position until it was his time to serve the country as the Secretary of State. Indeed, he was in office with former presidents, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. More importantly, Hay designed the Open Door Policy in the form of notes between the time periods of 1899 through 1900. However, The Open Door Policy was only directly to advocate the equal opportunity for foreign trade and the commerce in China. Furthermore, Hay projected The Open Door Note as an “open market” among all merchants and nationalities including the occupancy in China. Even though, John Hay had acknowledged that the Open Door Policy would support the United States recession and decrease the negative strain between the powers already running in China. According to Hay, he states, “The Chinese treaty tariff of the time being shall apply to all merchandise landed or shipped …show more content…
The Boxer Rebellion had an anti-foreign movement, which required strength by invading the foreign missionaries. Although, the event had turned into a fatal conflict, which involved the Chinese imperial army; the outcome had resolved in various deaths of the Chinese nationals and the foreign missionaries. Also, the Rebellion had attacked Beijing but, foreign nationals had called their own governments for assistance. The foreign armies had bombarded China from the coast, in order to rescue their wounded citizens. On July 3rd, Hay prepared a message and sent it to the foreign powers. The message insisted that the powers should respect their Chinese government’s territorial and administrative