1. THE BUILDING OF THE PANAMA CANAL

2. LEARNING GOALS: 1.Explain how the United States became a power in the Pacific. 2.Summarize U.S. interests in Latin America.

3. JOURNAL QUESTION: Explanation: “Speak softly and carry a big stick” described Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy in the early 1900s. Through this “Big Stick Diplomacy” he and future presidents bullied the rest of the Western Hemisphere with U.S. military and economic power. Journal Question: Imagine that you are a Latin or South American president and the U.S. President is threatening your country. What choices do you have to cooperate or oppose the U.S. president?

4. 1. The Open Door Policy stated that no single country should have a monopoly on trade with China. U.S. infantrymen camped in the Forbidden City at Beijing, China, August 1900.

5. 2.John Hay responded to the expansion of Japanese and European spheres of influence in China by asking nations in the region to follow the Open Door Policy.

7. 3. The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising in China against the presence of foreigners. Boxing Eagle Chinese Christian refugees at Tianjin during the Boxer Uprising of 1900.

8. 4.President Theodore Roosevelt summed up his foreign policy with the statement: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

9. 5.The Roosevelt Corollary expanded the Monroe Doctrine by authorizing the right of the U.S. to exercise power in Latin America.

10. 6.Roosevelt supported a revolution on the Isthmus of Panama because he wanted to build the Panama Canal on land controlled by Colombia. Flag of Panama

11. 7.Many of the 44,000 workers at the Panama Canal got sick from diseases spread by mosquitoes.