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Chapter 17 Section 3
A New Foreign Policy
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Concession• A concession is a grant for a
piece of land in exchange for a promise to use the land for a specific purpose.– Americans needed a shorter
route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A French company had bought a 25-year concession from Colombia to build a canal across Panama Defeated by yellow fever and mismanagement, the company abandoned the project and offered its remaining rights to the United States for $100 million.
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How did the United States secure the rights to build the Panama Canal?
• It secretly encouraged a revolution in Panama and sent military forces to protect it
• In return, the new nation of Panama gave the U.S. a 10 mile wide strip of land to build the canal
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Roosevelt Corollary
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine — The United States will act as “an international police power” in the Western Hemisphere and intervene to prevent intervention by other powers.
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Why did Roosevelt issue the Roosevelt Corollary?
• It would allow U.S. intervention if Latin American countries took actions harmful to the U.S. or if their governments collapsed, inviting intervention from stronger (possibly European) nations
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How did people in Latin America and the U.S. react to the Roosevelt Corollary?
• Latin Americans were angered
• The U.S. Congress was displeased– The Roosevelt Corollary
strengthened Roosevelt’s powers, but weakened those of Congress
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Dollar Diplomacy
• President Taft believed in maintaining influence through American investments, not military might.
• This policy was called dollar diplomacy.
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Why did Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy and Wilson’s actions in Mexico anger many Latin Americans?
• In Latin America, increased American investment in the economy angered local revolutionaries that opposed American influence
• Wilson’s moral stance during his direct intervention in Mexican affairs dictated how the civil war would go, angering many Mexicans.
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Big Stick Diplomacy
• Used by Theodore Roosevelt
• Using the military to conduct an aggressive foreign policy
• Used in: Panama/Colombia, The Dominican Republic
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Dollar Diplomacy
• Used by President Taft• Maintaining influence
through American investments, not military might.
• China, Manchuria, Russia, Japan, The Caribbean, Central America
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Moral/Missionary Diplomacy
• Used by President Wilson• The U.S. should spread
democracy and capitalism to other nations in the hemisphere and protect them from foreign threats
• Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic
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