Foreign Policy Apush
THE RISE OF THE USA AS A WORLD POWER (1890 1945) USA Presidents A Chronology 1. George Washington (1789-97) 2. John Adams (1797-1801) 3. Thomas Jefferson (1801-9) 4. James Madison (1809-17) 5. James Monroe (1817-25) 6. John Quincy Adams (1825-29) 7. Andrew Jackson (1829-37) 8. Martin Van Buren (1837-41) 9. William Henry Harrison (1841) 10. John Tyler (1841-45) 11. James Knox Polk (1845-49) 12. Zachary Taylor (1849-50) 13. Millard Fillmore (1850-53) 14. Franklin Pierce (1853-57) 15. James Buchanan (1857-61) 16. Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) 17. Andrew Johnson (1865-69) 18. Ulysses Grant (1869-77) Famous Foreign Policy Presidents19. Rutherford Hayes (1877- 81) 20. James Garfield (1881) 21. Chester Arthur (1881-85) 22. Grover Cleveland
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Nothing was to stand in the way of Americas imperial progress. Work went on despite lethal landslides. Workers with dynamite and clumsy steam shovels cut their way across a continent. They built a railroad, three sets of concrete locks, and a huge artificial lake. Nine years later the freighter Ancon entered the new channel. Hundreds of construction workers hopped aboard for the historic ride. A shiny towing locomotive pulled the Ancon into the first lock. Bands played and crowds cheered as the ship slipped into the Pacific. Roosevelt was fond of the old African saying speak softly and carry a big stick. His stick was the US navy, and increasingly he was bellowing Americas ambitions to the world. Between 1898 -1929, the US sent troops to Latin American countries on 32 occasions. These interventions were largely justified by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the US as a civilised nation had a right to interfere in the affairs of the Americas, to pre-empt outside interference. William Howard Taft, former governor of the Philippines, followed Roosevelt into the White House. Taft believed in economic expansion, and he introduced a …show more content…
They had originally wanted to cut a canal through ___________. The Americans worked on the Canal between ______ and ______. They took a different approach deciding to build a series of ________ and _____ instead of trying to dig a _____-level route. They had wrenched the area from __________ and then forced the Panamanians to grant them a ________ lease on an area called the Canal Zone. The Americans faced many problems in building the Canal, not least the landslides in the ___________ Cut. The Canal project was overseen by a tough and uncompromising army engineer called Colonel _______. He was helped by the work of Doctor William ________ who realised that ___________ were causing a lot of the diseases that had so ruined previous efforts. The finished canal was ____ miles in length and ships could negotiate it in ______ hours whereas before they had taken weeks or even months to go around the tip of _______ America. The USA could now control the _______ and _______ oceans much more easierly, and speed up the flow of its trade and commerce enormously. Panama, in effect, became an American satellite. However, many even at the time believed the Canal had
Nothing was to stand in the way of Americas imperial progress. Work went on despite lethal landslides. Workers with dynamite and clumsy steam shovels cut their way across a continent. They built a railroad, three sets of concrete locks, and a huge artificial lake. Nine years later the freighter Ancon entered the new channel. Hundreds of construction workers hopped aboard for the historic ride. A shiny towing locomotive pulled the Ancon into the first lock. Bands played and crowds cheered as the ship slipped into the Pacific. Roosevelt was fond of the old African saying speak softly and carry a big stick. His stick was the US navy, and increasingly he was bellowing Americas ambitions to the world. Between 1898 -1929, the US sent troops to Latin American countries on 32 occasions. These interventions were largely justified by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which stated that the US as a civilised nation had a right to interfere in the affairs of the Americas, to pre-empt outside interference. William Howard Taft, former governor of the Philippines, followed Roosevelt into the White House. Taft believed in economic expansion, and he introduced a …show more content…
They had originally wanted to cut a canal through ___________. The Americans worked on the Canal between ______ and ______. They took a different approach deciding to build a series of ________ and _____ instead of trying to dig a _____-level route. They had wrenched the area from __________ and then forced the Panamanians to grant them a ________ lease on an area called the Canal Zone. The Americans faced many problems in building the Canal, not least the landslides in the ___________ Cut. The Canal project was overseen by a tough and uncompromising army engineer called Colonel _______. He was helped by the work of Doctor William ________ who realised that ___________ were causing a lot of the diseases that had so ruined previous efforts. The finished canal was ____ miles in length and ships could negotiate it in ______ hours whereas before they had taken weeks or even months to go around the tip of _______ America. The USA could now control the _______ and _______ oceans much more easierly, and speed up the flow of its trade and commerce enormously. Panama, in effect, became an American satellite. However, many even at the time believed the Canal had