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The Panama Canal Being Built, Not all on…
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The Panama Canal Being Built
The land of the Panama Canal was purchased for 40 million. The route would significantly shorten the time in would take to get from the east coast to the west coast. However 5,000 workers would die working on the canal.
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Not all on Dollar Diplomacy is about business and investments. Sometimes, the military would still get involved. Taft sent troops to Nicaragua in 1909 and 1912 to "protect the formation of a formation of a pro-American government".
Nicaragua Involved
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Foreign Policy
Even though Wilson preferred Moral Diplomacy over Dollar and Big Stick Diplomacy, he still used them.
Wilson used military force in Latin American countries to prevent European intervention there. Wilson also sent military to Mexico which caused a change in government.
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Latin America didn't respond well to the change. They thought the U.S. was ever making themselves more aggressive on the world stage. It was said that the U.S. was almost losing its "sovereignty and liberty".
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Roosevelt supposedly got the "Big Stick" idea from an old African saying. "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
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