In the Time of Bull Moose and Teddy Bear

1. In the Time of Bull Moose and Teddy Bear Imperial America

2. America was a young and strong nation • Expanding across the Continent, not just claiming it but settling it • Northern Factories combined with Natural Resources from the North and South were making America wealthy • Innovations and advances in technology were making America are recognizable power in the world • America will start to look outside its borders across the world to flex some of its new muscle.

3. There is always Cuba Spain still controls Cuba and we view that as our sphere of influence

4. The Spanish American War • Cuba rests just 90 miles from Florida and at the opening of the Gulf of Mexico • The United States does not want a European Country there that could potential control our shipping • We go to war after a United States Naval Vessel explodes in a Cuban harbor • Theodore Roosevelt leads a group of “Rough Riders” to victory in Cuba • The United States gains control of Cuba and Puerto Rico

5. Theodore Roosevelt • America is emboldened by this new leader who will become President • He is young • From a wealthy New York Family • Became a hunter, explorer, military leader, boxer and naturalist

6. America expands further….The Philippines • Like every other western nation America wants lands in Asia for more Natural Resources and trade. • The Philippines becomes an America conquest • Look up what benefits did the Philippines offer the USA • https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2016/03/12/united-states-colonial-rule-in-the-philippines-part-ii/

7. We need a better way to trade • It is dangerous and expensive to sail around South America to get to Asia or even the West Coast of America • Shipping is always the cheapest easiest way to move goods we need to build a canal

8. American Success We use a combination of perfect location Mosquito nets And Technology (steam drills and steam engines) We are able to dig the “Ditch” We claim ownership

9. Innovation!!

10. “I took the Canal zone and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on the canal does also.” • What is the debate over? Theodore Roosevelt

11. Although the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was essentially passive (it asked that Europeans not increase their influence or recolonize any part of the Western Hemisphere), by the 20th century a more confident United States was willing to take on the role of regional policeman. In the early 1900s Roosevelt grew concerned that a crisis between Venezuela and its creditors could spark an invasion of that nation by European powers. The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.” As the corollary worked out in practice, the United States increasingly used military force to restore internal stability to nations in the region. Roosevelt declared that the United States might “exercise international police power in ‘flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence.’” Over the long term the corollary had little to do with relations between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it did serve as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The Roosevelt Corollary Is it the USA’s job to use military force in order to keep peace in the western hemisphere?

12. Although the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 was essentially passive (it asked that Europeans not increase their influence or recolonize any part of the Western Hemisphere), by the 20th century a more confident United States was willing to take on the role of regional policeman. In the early 1900s Roosevelt grew concerned that a crisis between Venezuela and its creditors could spark an invasion of that nation by European powers. The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.” As the corollary worked out in practice, the United States increasingly used military force to restore internal stability to nations in the region. Roosevelt declared that the United States might “exercise international police power in ‘flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence.’” Over the long term the corollary had little to do with relations between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it did serve as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The Roosevelt Corollary Is it the USA’s job to use military force in order to keep peace in the western hemisphere?

13. Roosevelt Corollary (what it means) • European Countries were still trying to control land in South America by making loans to them • Many of these South American nations were poor and could not pay the loans back • Therefore European countries would invade or take resources from these nations as payment • President Roosevelt said that America would not allow that and we would take military action to stop any attempt by European nations to force payment or invade to collect payment • The United States would then intervene (take control) in South Americans that could not pay loans to avoid European conflict

14. Describe how the Roosevelt Corollary is an example of this quote… • “Speak softly but carry a big stick” –Theodore Roosevelt

15. World in 1885

16. The World in 1914