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IMPERIAL PRESIDENTS by Lily Le, *William McKinley (1896 - 1901) - Coggle…
IMPERIAL PRESIDENTS by Lily Le
William Howard Taft (1909 - 1912)
Dollar Diplomacy
“Worked to expand economic opportunities in China” (Lapskansy-Werner, 2019, p. 228).
“U.S. should invest in foreign economies to increase American influence” (Lapskansy-Werner, 2019, p. 228).
He loaned money to Nicaragua in order to help them pay a debt
Troops were dispatched twice to Nicaragua in order to “protect the formation of a pro- American government there” (Lapskansy-Werner, 2019, p. 228).
Justified keeping the Europeans out of the Caribbean
Wanted to keep the Open Door Policy in Asia
Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1908)
Big Stick Ideology
He believed that in order to achieve goals, American military should be applied
Nations should NOT be self governing
Leaders of Peru and Nicaragua disapproved Rosevelt’s methods, leading Nicaragua to lead “an army of guerrillas against U.S. Marines in Nicaragua” (Lapskansy-Werner, 2019, p. 228).
The buying of the Panama Canal allowed the US navy total control of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
This increased “America’s military security and protect[ed] it’s new territories, while helping its shipping trade reach overseas markets more easily and cheaply” (Lapskansy-Werner, 2019, p. 226).
Originally Colombia offered more money for the Panama Canal but Roosevelt decided to send warships to Panama in order to help them fight a rebellion against Colombia, which ended up giving its control over to the US, giving them the Panama Canal :
Roosevelt Corollary
This updated the Monroe Doctrine that allowed the US to protect its economic interests with the use of military force
Woodrow Wilson (1913 - 1920)
Revolution in Mexico
Moral Diplomacy
“U.S. should spread peace and democracy rather than colonize foreign countries” (Lapskansy-Werner, 2019, p. 228).
Nations should be self governing
Wanted to make a friendship with Latin America.
Helped Carranza become president by sending marines to Veracruz, causing the fall of Huertas’a government
*William McKinley (1896 - 1901)
Annexation of Hawaii
Spanish-American War
America wanted to “bring American businesses the new foreign markets they needed” by saving China to simply trade with them (Lapsansky-Werner, 2019, p. 223).
Americans were reminded of the Cubans effort for a freedom of democracy and helped them. .
Open Door Policy
After the beginning of the Spanish- American War, Congress made Hawaii an official US territory
