1. Section 3 Expanding Interests in Asia and Latin America
Chapter 22
Section 3
Expanding Interests in Asia and Latin America

2. A Power in the Pacific
? What steps increased American influence in East Asia and the Pacific?
In 1850s, Commodore Perry opened Japan to Western trade and culture.
1890s – Japan defeated China.
Spheres of influence – areas where foreign nations claimed special rights and economic privileges.

3. The U.S. and China
1890s; many European countries and Japan established prosperous settlements along the coast of China.
U.S. (John Hays) proposed Open Door Policy No single country should have a monopoly on trade with China.
Chinese against foreigners; Boxer Rebellion – uprising of Chinese against foreigners.

4. America secures the Philippines
1902- U.S. put down the independence movement in the Philippines.
Philippines would provide a path to Chinese markets.
U.S. controlled a chain of islands in the Pacific; Hawaii and Guam. (pg )

5. U.S. Interests in Latin America
? Why did the U.S. get involved in Latin America?
Panama Canal – needed a connection between the Atlantic and Pacific.
U.S. supported a revolution in Panama to secure rights for the canal.
Eventually paid (1921) Colombia $25 million.

6. Panama Canal Construction began in 1906; finished in 1914.
44,000 workers.
Cost $350-$380 million to build.
More than 5,500 died of disease and accidents.
Malaria – an infectious disease marked by cycles of chills and fever.

7. U.S. Involvement in Latin America
Businesses wanted resources from the South; bananas, coffee, copper. Sell at higher prices in the U.S.
Land for farming and mining.
Theodore Roosevelt – reminded Europe of the Monroe Doctrine.
Added the Roosevelt Corollary – authorizing U.S. to police the region; would intervene in Latin America’s domestic affairs if necessary.

8. Global Expansion The growth of the U.S. economy depended on exports.
The U.S. Had a right to intervene abroad to keep foreign markets open.
The closing of an area to American products, citizens, or ideas threatened U.S. survival.
Refueling posts in the Pacific for the U.S. Navy were essential to U.S. security.