As a consequence of former Spanish and, later, Mexican sovereignty over lands that are now part of the United States, there are many places in the country, mostly in the southwest, with names of Spanish origin.Florida and Louisiana also were at times under Spanish control. Colonial: Spanish names that were given in the Spanish colonial period, or adaptations of names originally given in the colonial period to the same place or to nearby related places.
John Hay: American Diplomat John Milton Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, the son of a physician who schooled him Greek and Latin. Hay spent most of his youth in Warsaw, Illinois, attended Illinois State University (later Concordia College) and received a master's degree from Brown University, in 1858. John Hay began the practice of law with an uncle in Springfield, Illinois, where he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln. In 1861, he was appointed a private secretary of Lincoln, along with John Nicolay; both assiduously collected items of historical merit that would later serve as the basis of a biography of the president.
Saw China as an opportunity to assert iteslf as a power amongst European countries. America needed spheres of influence around the world. John Hay introduced Open Door Policy. Gave European Countries, Japan, and U.S. opportunity to assert seperate control by seperating it into equal parts. (all nations would have an equal footing) In 1900 Secretary of State John Hay announced what became known as the Open Door policy with regard to China.