Teddy Rosevelt and the Big Stick

• Mckinley was murdered by an anarchist, teddy Roosevelt president

• youngest at that point in history

• reputation for being rash made him declare his desire to carry out the will of his predecessor

• middle slightly liberal

  • reputation for ignoring the constitution

• speak softly and carry a big stick and you will go far

  • if everyone is scared of you no need to ask twice

Imperialism and the pannamal cannal

• America wanted it to increase naval strength and cut time to travel to Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

• legal issues

  • 1850 treaty with Great Britain stated the US couldn’t have exclusive control over such a route

  • Clayton buyer treaty

  • 1901 Britain was willing to consent to the HAy preface treaty in 1901

    • gave us the right to build and fortify a canal

• The Nicaraguan route was highly favored by American experts

• French Canal Company wanted to salvage their expensive mistake of an s-shaped Panama canale dropping the price from 109mil to 40mil

• congress picked Panama and french canal company in 1902

• negotiations with Panama fell through as Panama wanted more (the US was willing to give it but TR was impatient and was up for reelection)

• Panama has a revolution(led by a french dude) against Columbian rule

  • Or doesn’t let Columbians cross the isthmus in a very strained interpretation of a Columbian treaty demanding perfect neutrality from their station their

  • The new Panama prime minister signed the treaty for the price of 250,000x+10mil (x being years)

• Called it the” rape of Panama”

  • marked down spiral in us Latin American relations

Roosevelt Collar

• Latin American debt defaults to Britain and german

• Germany spanks 2 venswalian ships as retribution

• TR is scared if Europe gets in as debt collectors they will stay

• “Preventative intervention”

  • Blatant disregard for the Monroe doctrine

• declared that in future cases of default us would intervene and pay off their debts so Europe cant intervene

  • then Latin American nations would pay off the us

  • general tone only US gets to push them around

Imperialism in the Carrribian

• Roosevelts Collaroy

• went into effect in 1905 in the carrier when the Dominican republic’s tariff collections were taken over by the US government

• Dominicans not happy

• formalized 2 years later in a treaty