Additional Imperialism Information...

Significant Dates for TAKS• 1607: Jamestown• 1776: D.O.I• 1787: Constitution• 1803: Louisiana Purchase• 1860-1864: Civil War• 1898: Spanish-American War• 1914-1918: WWI• 1929: Great Depression• 1940-1941-1945: WWII• 1957: Sputnik

Becomes Vice-President of the United States in

1900 . When President McKinley is assassinated in 1901, Roosevelt

becomes president. Roosevelt serves as

President from 1901-1909

• 22 years old when he married his first wife Alice.

• Alice dies in 1884 2 days after the birth of their first daughter, Alice. T.R.’s mother dies the same day in the same house of typhoid.

• In 1886 T.R. marries his second wife Edith after completing the family home in New York. Together they have 5 more children…Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin

• Roosevelt was a great athlete and avid hunter. His interests included boxing, tennis, wrestling, and hunting.

Accomplishments of his presidency include:

• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• The Pure Food and Drug Act

• Conservation measures including the establishment of the National Forest Service

• Winner of the Nobel peace Prize: For negotiating peace between Russia and Japan (Russio-Japanese War)

• Roosevelt Corollary: Added to the Monroe Doctrine

• Building the Panama Canal

• Created the Progressive or Bull Moose Party for the election of 1912

• Is nominated by the Progressive Party as their candidate for President in 1912 but divided the votes by doing so and paved the way for Woodrow Wilson to

become president

Funeral Procession for the burial of Theodore Roosevelt at Young's Memorial Cemetery

in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York on January 8, 1919.

The Panama Canal

How did we acquire the land to build the canal?

• Built on land that originally belonged to Columbia

• Original payment for the land was 40 million. Bought from a French company who had tried to build a canal.

• U.S. had to get permission from Columbia, who controlled Panama at the time, to build the canal. Negotiations broke down and no agreement was decided.

• Panama wanting the canal, decides to declare independence from Columbia and it just so happens that the U.S. Navy parks a dozen of our newly built warships within sight of Panama.

• 15 days later the U.S. and Panama signed a treaty in which the U.S. agreed to pay Panama $10 million plus an annual rent of $250,000 dollars for an area of land across Panama, called the Canal Zone.

• The payments would begin in 1913.

The canal continued…• Over 43,000 men worked on the canal of

those 43,000…5,600 died of disease or from accidents.

• The Canal is 51 miles long

• The U.S. spent a total of $380 million dollars on the construction of the canal including $ 25 million given to Columbia for loss of the land.

The Panama Canal

The Canal Continued…• It took the United States from 1904-1914 to complete the Panama Canal.• By 1999 700,000 vessels, flying the flags of about 70 nations had passed

through it’s locks• Two treaties signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter arranged for the

transference of power by Dec. 31, 1999.• In the treaty a Canal Commission was established made up of both

Americans and Panamanians. • Neutrality Treaty. Under this treaty, the U.S. retained the permanent right to

defend the canal from any threat that might interfere with its continued neutral service to ships of all nations. The second treaty is titled The Panama Canal Treaty, and provided that as from 12:00 on December 31, 1999, Panama would assume full control of canal operations and become primarily responsible for its defense.

Yellow Fever

• Also known as “The Yellow Peril” and “Yellow Jack”

• The Yellow Fever Epidemic hit the U.S. 1878.

• Spread by mosquitoes

• Mortality rate upwards to 50%

Symptoms of the Fever• Virus has a incubation period of 3 to 6 days.

• Initial symptoms include fever and chills, severe headache, back pain, general muscle aches, nausea, fatigue, and weakness. This phase may be followed by a short period of symptom remission.

• The toxic phase develops as the fever returns, with clinical symptoms including high fever, headache, back pain, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fatigue and internal hemorrhaging.

• In the late stages of disease, patients can develop hypotension, shock, and cardiac arrhythmia. Confusion, seizures, and coma can also occur. When epidemics occur in unvaccinated populations, case-fatality rates range from 15% to more than 50%. Secondary bacterial infections and kidney failure are complications. Symptoms of weakness and fatigue may last several months in people who recover.

• Those who recover from yellow fever generally have lasting immunity against subsequent infection.