Your Task: Create a Dialogue

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Your Task Create a Dialogue

• You and your partner will create a dialogue
  between you
• One of you will be Theodore Roosevelt and the
  other will be someone opposed to him.
• You will create a sentence or two about each
  topic listed on the paper.

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What Should the Role of the US in Foreign Policy?

• Do we
• Allow countries to be on their own even if they
  might become enemies?
• Help them if they havent asked us to?
• Establish control over countries to ensure US
  safety

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Foreign Policy of Theodore Roosevelt

• Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick

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Roosevelt Corollary

• Monroe Doctrine (1828) - US closes Latin America
  to new European colonies
• Roosevelt Corollary (1905) - US to serve as
  police in Latin America and intervene as
  necessary
• Anarchy Protection - TR thought US should get
  involved any time there is lawlessness in Western
  Hemisphere to aid the country and protect the US

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The Panama Canal

• Both the United States and Europe wanted to build
  a canal across Central America
• This would save time and be less dangerous than
  going around Cape Horn in Chile
• Isthmus of Panama - the area known as Panama is
  50 miles mile and was owned by Columbia

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French Failure

• 1879 - the French buy land in Panama to build a
  canal
• Quickly run out of money and desire
• Many men die to tropical disease
• French sell the rights to the land to the US in
  1901 for 40 million
• Columbia tells US they are not allowed to dig the
  canal

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TR takes Action

• TR really wants a canal and isnt bothered by the
  fact that Columbia wont allow him to build it.
• TR supports a revolution by Panama to overthrow
  Columbia.
• US sends ships, men, and support.
• Panama is free - One day revolt ends with
  Panamas independence

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Lets Make a Deal

• US recognizes Panama as a country on 11/6/1903
• US and Panama cut a deal - US leases land for 99
  years for 10 million and 250,000 annually
  (Turned down by Columbia)
• US begins construction of a huge ditch through
  the country of Panama

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Building the Panama Canal
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Construction

• Used Frances unfinished canal to start
• Locks built to go over mountains
• 51 miles long
• 375 million 300 million of French

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I took the canal zone and let Congress debate,
and while the debate goes on, the canal
construction does also. Theodore Roosevelt after
being asked about how he feels that Congress does
not support his decision to take the Canal Zone.
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Issues With Construction

• Had to help a rebellion in Columbia
• Malaria and Yellow Fever spread by mosquitoes
• 6000 lives lost

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Benefits of the Panama Canal

• Shorter Distance - former route was 12,600 miles.
  Now 4,900 miles
• Security - US Navy can get places quicker so it
  helps with protection of US and imperialism
• Information - US controls who travels through the
  canal
• Power - Sends a message of power and action of US
  to the world

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TR as the Top Cop of Western Hemisphere

• 1903 - Panama Canal
• 1905 - Takes over Dominican Republics finances
  after a revolution until they became stable
• 1906 - US sends troops to Cuba to halt a
  revolution (remember that we controlled Cuba with
  the Platt Amendment)

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Tafts Dollar Diplomacy

• Taft thought TR was acting too boldly and using
  the military too often
• Strives to assert US power through money, not
  guns
• US invests in countries and businesses that would
  help American interests