Major factors that drove IMPERIALISM

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Panama

• French wanted a new trade route
• 1880s began 50mile canal across Panama
• 10yrs 20,000 lives 280million give up!
• 1903 U.S. try to save canal plan
• U.S. -- 10 mil for 6 miles and 250k yearly
  rental for 99years
• Only issue Panama was a providence of Columbia
  a revolt

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Benefits of the Panama Canal
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Review of U.S. Foreign Policy

• Roosevelt- Big Stick Policy
• Monroe Doctrine-
• Named U.S. as protector of Western Hemisphere
• Protected interests in Latin America
• Roosevelt Corollary- non intervention in Latin
  America
• Tafts Dollar Diplomacy-substituting dollars
  for bullets

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Fighters of Imperialism

• Fidel Castro (Cuba)
• Che Guevara (Cuba)
• Jose Marti (Cuba)
• Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippines)
• Francisco Madero (Mexico)
• Francisco Pancho Villa (Mexico)
• Emiliano Zapata (Mexico)
• Boxers (China)