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U.S. Foreign Policy in the Early 1900s

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Early 1900s. TR: “Walk softly, and carry a big stick.”. Panama was originally a province in Colombia In 1902, the US bought canal building rights from France

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U.S. Foreign Policy in the Early 1900s

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  1. U.S. Foreign Policy in the Early 1900s

  2. TR: “Walk softly, and carry a big stick.”

  3. Panama was originally a province in Colombia • In 1902, the US bought canal building rights from France • The Colombian government refuses to approve the Hay-Herran Treaty, which would have given the canal zone to the U.S. for $10 million and $250,000 a year • TR’s “Plan B:” he works secretly with French canal company leader Philippe Bunau-Varilla to engineer a revolution; sends the US Naval Fleet; when Colombia attempts to send troops by railroad, the Americans who controlled the Panamanian Railroad refused them! • Panamanian Revolution (1903): The Canal Zone

  4. The U.S. had written the Panamanian Declaration of Independence and Constitution in advance • Bunau-Varilla’s wife had sewn the first flag! • Construction soon began and the canal opened in 1914. The Panama Canal

  5. "I am interested in the Panama Canal because I started it. If I had followed traditional, conservative methods, I should have submitted a dignified state paper of probably two hundred pages to Congress, and the debate would have been going on yet. But I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate, and while the debate goes on, the Canal does also!” –TR, 1911

  6. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-panama/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-panama/ • http://itookpanama.com/about_bunau-varilla • http://new-york-city.yodelout.com/waldorf-astoria-a-man-a-hotel-and-a-canal/ Additional sources

  7. Roosevelt Corollary (1904): • Italian Navy comes to collect its debts from the Dominican Republic in 1903; TR intervenes, takes over the D.R.’s customs house and sets up a debt repayment plan • American troops intervene in Cuba, Panama, D.R., Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Haiti from 1902-1917 Roosevelt Corollary

  8. In 1905, TR helped negotiate the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended a war between Japan and Russia and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize • In 1906, he negotiated peace between France and Germany over the control over Morocco • http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1906/roosevelt-facts.html • http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/2010/December/10-Roosevelt-is-Awarded-the-Nobel-Peace-Prize.aspx TR: Nobel Peace Prize Winner!

  9. “Dollar Diplomacy:” Taft

  10. Intervention in the Caribbean and Latin America continued • Troops sent to occupy Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic • Revolution in Mexico Wilson

  11. Use the web and this site: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pancho-villa-attacks-columbus-new-mexico • What did Villa do on American soil in 1916? • What was the “Pancho Villa Expedition?” Pancho Villa

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