Examples of Haiti in the following topics:
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- With the end of the Cold War, President Clinton was faced with international crises in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, and Haiti.
- In 1993, thousands of Haitians tried to flee to the United States as well, but more than half were sent back to Haiti by the U.W.
- Senator Sam Nunn, and retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell to Haiti.
- This delegation persuaded the leaders of Haiti to step down and allow the elected officials to return to power.
- Operation Uphold Democracy officially ended on March 31, 1995, when it was replaced by the UN Mission in Haiti (UNMIH).
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- Jeffersonians resisted antislavery and abolition vigorously, pointing to the violence of the revolution in Haiti as justification for keeping Africans enslaved in the United States.
- After Haiti achieved independence in 1804, Jefferson grappled with Southern and congressional hostility toward the new black republic under the leadership of Haitian revolutionary, Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
- Jefferson shared planters' fears that the success of the rebellion in Haiti would encourage similar slave rebellions and widespread violence in the South.
- The United States officially joined with other European nations in a policy of nonrecognition of Haiti and a boycott on Haitian trade after Dessalines declared himself emperor 1804.
- Jefferson also discouraged the emigration of free blacks in America to Haiti.
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- Wilson continued the U.S. policy
of intervening in the affairs of Latin American nations, including Cuba, Haiti,
the Dominican Republic, Panama, and Nicaragua, as well as in Mexico.
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1914 and 1918, the U.S. intervened in Latin America, particularly in Mexico,
Haiti, Cuba, and Panama.
- American troops occupied Haiti
between 1915 and 1934, forcing the Haitian legislature to choose a presidential candidate selected by Wilson.
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- U.S. presidents cited the Roosevelt Corollary as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba (1906–1909), Nicaragua (1909–1910, 1912–1925 and 1926–1933), Haiti (1915–1934), and the Dominican Republic (1916–1924).
- Herbert Hoover also helped move the U.S. away from the imperialist tendencies of the Roosevelt Corollary by going on goodwill tours, withdrawing troops from Nicaragua and Haiti, and generally abstaining from intervening in the internal affairs of neighboring countries.
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- Thereafter, the United States conducted military interventions in Cuba, Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
- The series of conflicts ended with the withdrawal of troops from Haiti in 1934 under President Franklin D.
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- The American occupation
of Nicaragua and Haiti continued under his administration, although Coolidge
withdrew American troops from the Dominican Republic in 1924.
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- In the interest of bringing democracy and financial stability to the region, the US made numerous interventions in countries such as Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua.
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- Indigofera was a major crop of cultivation during the colonial period, in Haiti until the slave rebellion against France that left them embargoed by Europe, Guatemala in the 18th century, and India in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- In 1804, the black and mulatto revolutionaries succeeded in gaining freedom, declaring the colony the independent black nation of Haiti.
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- This fear was most prevalent in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution, when ex-slaves in Haiti massacred their white masters and established a subsistence economy based on peasant proprietorship.