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U.S. Expansion in the Early 1900s: Imperialism and Policy Shifts

Explore how the U.S. increased global control in the early 1900s through imperialism and strategic policies under various presidents.

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U.S. Expansion in the Early 1900s: Imperialism and Policy Shifts

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  1. February 15, 2017 U.S. History Agenda: DO NOW: DBQ NOTES #39: How did the U.S. expand its control over the world during the early 1900s? U.S. IMPERIALISM OPEN-NOTES TEST TOMORROW (BASED ON NOTES #s 38 and 39)

  2. How did the U.S. expand its control over the world during the early 1900s? Notes #39

  3. The Open Door policy was adopted by the U.S. in 1899 to increase trade with China. President William McKinley (1897 – 1901)

  4. Through President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy, the U.S. built up its navy in Latin America to protect U.S. investments there. President Theodore Roosevelt (1901 – 1909)

  5. Through President William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. used its money to promote growing U.S. investments in Latin America President William Howard Taft (1909 – 1913)

  6. The U.S. built the Panama Canal in the early 1900s to reduce travel time for commercial and military shipping. X

  7. The Roosevelt Corollarywas added to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, which established that the U.S. had the right to act as the “policeman of the Western Hemisphere”.

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  9. 2. “But today we are raising more than we can consume. Today we are making more than we can use. Today our industrial society is congested; there are more workers than there is work; there is more capital than there is investment. We do not need more money – we need more circulation, more employment. Therefore, we must find new markets for our produce, new occupation for our capital, new work for our labor . . .” - Senator Albert J. Beveridge, 1898

  10. 3. “. . . Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. An increasing volume of public sentiment demands it . . .” - Alfred Mahan, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1890

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  16. 9. “. . . the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers . . . ” - President James Monroe, 1823

  17. 10. “Chronic wrongdoing . . . may . . . ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and . . . adherence . . . to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States . . . to the exercise of an international police power.” - Theodore Roosevelt, 1904

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