1. U.S. IMPERIALISM OPEN-NOTES TEST
February 15, 2017
U.S. History Agenda:
DO NOW: DBQ
NOTES #39: How did the U.S. expand its control over the world during the early 1900s?
U.S. IMPERIALISM OPEN-NOTES TEST
TOMORROW
(BASED ON NOTES #s 38 and 39)

3. How did the U.S. expand its control over the world during the early 1900s? Notes #39

4. President William McKinley
The Open Door policy was adopted by the U.S. in 1899 to increase trade with China.
President William McKinley
(1897 – 1901)

5. Through President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy, the U. S
Through President Theodore Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy, the U.S. built up its navy in Latin America to protect U.S. investments there.
President Theodore
Roosevelt (1901 – 1909)

6. President William Howard
Through President William Howard Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. used its money to promote growing U.S. investments in Latin America
President William Howard
Taft (1909 – 1913)

7. The U.S. built the Panama Canal in the early 1900s to reduce travel time for commercial and military shipping. X

8. The Roosevelt Corollary was added to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904, which established that the U.S. had the right to act as the “policeman of the Western Hemisphere”.

9. 1.

10. 2. - Senator Albert J. Beveridge, 1898
“But today we are raising more than we can consume. Today we are making more than we can use. Today our industrial society is congested; there are more workers than there is work; there is more capital than there is investment. We do not need more money – we need more circulation, more employment. Therefore, we must find new markets for our produce, new occupation for our capital, new work for our labor . . .”
- Senator Albert J. Beveridge, 1898

11. 3.
“. . . Whether they will or not, Americans must now begin to look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. An increasing volume of public sentiment demands it . . .”
- Alfred Mahan, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1890

12. 4.

13. 5.

14. 6.

15. 7.

16. 8.

17. 9.
“. . . the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers ”
- President James Monroe, 1823

18. 10.
“Chronic wrongdoing may ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and adherence to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States to the exercise of an international police power.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1904