1. Topic: The “Big Stick”: Evaluating the Foreign Policies of Theodore Roosevelt

2. Results of Spanish-American War: Background to TR
Cuba and the Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico as “protectorate” and the Insular Cases
Philippines “insurgency”
Emilio Aquinaldo
Asian Policy
China as a market
European “Spheres of Influence”
John Hay’s “Open Door” notes
1900: Boxer Rebellion
Election of 1900
McKinley vs. Bryan
Issue of Imperialism
McKinley wins  why?
McKinley assassinated in 1901, TR President

3. TR and the “Big Stick” Policy
TR: US as “policeman”
TR wants to keep Euros out of “our hemisphere”
Roosevelt Corollary:
“Middleman” between Latin America and European nations
US interventionism
Big Stick in use:
Venezuela (Germany)
Dominican Republic (Tariff)
Cuba (troops to restore order)

4. The Panama Canal Why a canal?
Columbia rejects American offer for canal zone
TR sends US Navy to aid rebelling Panamanians against Columbia
Panama becomes an independent nation
Hay-Burnau-Varillia Treaty
Canal built through Panamanian isthmus

5. TR and Japan US becoming a foreign policy “leader”
Russo-Japanese War (1905)
TR negotiates peace treaty
Treaty of Portsmouth
Gentleman’s Agreement (1907)
Japan agrees to US immigration quotas
Root-Takahira Treaty (1908)
Japan and US recognize each other’s Asian possessions
Forestalls Japan-US conflict

6. 3…2…1 3 Arguments in favor of TR’s foreign policy
2 Arguments against TR’s foreign policy
1 Do You agree with TR’s decisions? Explain.