[Torie]

Sorry, I can't help you much. The only Open Door I know about is with China, and that is memory from high school. I don't know anything about the Open Door notes. My guess is that neither was that important. Teddy made a modest splash with his "imperialism," but the US really didn't become critical on the world stage until WW I. Pax Britania did most of the heavy lifting prior thereto. The immigration bit confuses me. What were you or he asserting there?

[Lent]

What were you or he asserting there?

He related "Open Door" to immigration issues in the middle of the nineteenth century. I too am going from memory but I think I'm clear about this issue. Maybe I'll have to check. But the Open Door Notes which I am speaking about leading eventually to the framing of American economic expansionism, principally being the notion of free competition with respect to trade and certain guarantees with respect to the territorial integrity of the trading nation - in this case it began as China. The Notes created the policy framework for economic expansionism. This was a late 19th century process as I noted above.