Country/ Region
U.S. President
Alaska
A. Johnson
China
Taft
Cuba
McKinley
Guam
McKinley
Hawaii
Cleveland
Philippines
McKinley
Beginning
(causes)
U.S. wanted land.
Middle
(details)
Seward bought Alaska
from Russia.
U.S. wanted to trade.
China did not want
Taft encouraged “dollar foreign influence. U.S.
diplomacy.”
and European
countries sent troops.
U.S. businesses were
U.S. won the Spanishinvolved with tobacco American War.
and sugar businesses.
The U.S.S. Maine blew
up in Havana.
U.S. wanted naval
U.S. won the Spanishbases.
American War.
End
(results)
Americans later
found gold and oil.
China let foreigners
have zones of trade
(called “spheres of
influence”).
U.S. got a military
base at
Guantanamo Bay.
U.S. businesses owned
fruit and sugar
plantations in Hawaii.
The queen tried to limit
their influence.
U.S. wanted naval
bases close to China.
Hawaii joined the
U.S. so that U.S.
import taxes did not
hurt the planters’
business.
U.S. had to fight the
Filipino-American
War against their
former allies.
The planters rebelled
with U.S. military help.
U.S. won the SpanishAmerican War, easily
capturing Manila, and
paid Spain to keep the
Philippines.
U.S. got Puerto Rico
in Treaty of Paris.
Panama
T. Roosevelt,
Taft
Puerto Rico
McKinley
Latin America (in
general)
T. Roosevelt,
Taft, Wilson
Roosevelt’s “big stick”
or “gunboat”
diplomacy involved the
U.S. using force, or the
threat of force, to
ensure the cooperation
of other countries. For
military and economic
reasons, U.S. wanted a
faster way to get ships
from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and the French
failed to build a canal.
U.S. wanted naval
bases.
The Roosevelt Corollary
let the U.S. act as
“international police”
to keep order and
protect U.S. businesses.
U.S. encouraged and
helped Panama to
break away from
Colombia in 1903.
U.S. helped build
the Panama Canal
and made a lease
(rental) deal that let
the U.S. keep
control of it for a
century.
U.S. won the SpanishAmerican War.
U.S. took control of
Dominican Republic’s
finances from 1905.
U.S. troops stopped a
1906 Cuban revolution.
Marines protected
American business
interests in Nicaragua
in 1912. Wilson sent
troops to intervene in a
Mexican civil war and
collect debts in 1914.
U.S. got Puerto Rico
in Treaty of Paris.
Mexicans were
angry at U.S.
interference in their
politics.