SWBAT: Describe the changes in American foreign policy towards Latin America in the 1900s Do Now: Analyze the political cartoon and answer the discussion questions

1. What does the top row of people represent? 2. How do the images change in the bottom row? 3. How does the artist use clothing and body language to make his point? 4. Does this cartoon support American action during imperialism or argue against it? Why?

Group Activity Task: Working in groups of three please complete the following: Read one of the three assigned readings on either the Roosevelt Corollary aka “Big Stick Policy”, Dollar Diplomacy, or Moral Diplomacy. After you read your assigned portion, create a three sentence summary of your topic in the space below. Using your reading and a summary as a guide, create a visual representation of that topic on the back of this sheet. If the message of your picture is unclear please include text along with the picture After all three have completed their portions of the graphic organizer and pictures, please share your pictures with your partners one at a time. While viewing each other’s pictures, summarize their topic in the space provided below. After you have completed your written summary, please discuss the topic with the artist, and thoroughly complete the graphic organizer.

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Believed the Monroe Doctrine required the United States to step in and act “as an international police power” if a nation is behaving wrongly in the Western Hemisphere Venezuela and the Dominican Republic were having economic problems and led to threats of European intervention. The “Big Stick” policy was the policy of the United States to intervene in Latin American affairs, to maintain economic stability and to limit European involvement U.S. occupied Nicaragua (1912-1933), Haiti (1915-1934), and the Dominican Republic (1916-1924).

Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy The United States could maintain orderly societies in other countries by increasing American investments in foreign economies. Taft believed that U.S. investments would effectively substitute “dollars for bullets,” and thus offer a more peaceful and less coercive way of maintaining stability and order. No need to flex military muscle to show off U.S. power like Roosevelt.

Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy By refusing to support non-democratic countries, he hoped to hurt them economically and thus force them into submission. Wilson recognized something that Roosevelt or Taft had not: that more and more peoples of the world were determined to control their own destinies. The U.S. under Wilson was looking for a way to support these peoples’ democratic aspirations while safeguarding its own economic interests.

Answer with at least 3 sentences. Apply your knowledge Which foreign policy do you think makes more sense for the United States? Explain why… Answer with at least 3 sentences.