1. Bell ringers
What countries are Hispanics from?

2. Latin America US Imperialism spreads

3. Map of Central America

4. The Panama Canal Benefits to the US
French started the canal but went bankrupt & 22,00 deaths( )
Benefits to the US
Faster, cheaper shipping between two coasts
Strengthening two-coast navy
“The shortcut”

5. BUILDING THE PANAMA CANAL 1904-1914
U.S. tries to purchase of French lease ($40 million)
Columbia owns Panama at this time & rejects the lease
American support for Panamanian revolt (1903)
Colombian senate’s rejection of U.S. offer (99-year lease, $10 million payment and annual rent of $250,000)
Cost- $380 million Workers– Over 40,000 (5,600 died) Time – Construction took 10 years

6. Panama Canal

7. Panama Canal

8. Panama Canal’s locks

9. Almost 1,000,000 ships have passed through the canal, which became sole property of Panama in the year 2000

10. Panama Canal steam shovel

11. Panama Canal steam shovel

12. shipping containers on in a Panama Canal lock

13. President Roosevelt sitting on steam shovel in canal zone

14. Policing Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
U.S. right to police misbehaving, unstable Latin American countries
1. control of Dominican Republic’s finances (1905)
2. U.S. troops in Cuba to stop revolution (1906)
3. Preventing European military intervention to collect debts

15. Cartoon of Roosevelt Corollary

16. Taft’s “dollar diplomacy”
business investments (roads, railroads, harbors) in Latin America
U.S. bank loans to Latin America
willingness to intervene militarily to protect U.S. investments
more trade
Marines sent to Nicaragua to protect U.S. businesses (1912) against revolution

17. Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy

18. Canal Video
Try to find one online

19. Class work: Show the bias!
Create a political cartoon showing the US as a positive or negative influence in Latin America during this time.
Include something that represents the US & something that represents Latin America