USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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What is Pres. Taft’s foreign policy called?

(A) Corollary

(B) ** Dollar Diplomacy

(C) Missionary Dipolmacy

(D) Foracker Act

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -In what became known as “dollar diplomacy, ” Taft announced his decision to “substitute dollars for bullets” in an effort to use foreign policy to secure markets and opportunities for American businessmen ([link]).

Concept note-2: -Dollar diplomacy is the term applied to American foreign policy under President William Howard Taft and his secretary of state, Philander C. Knox, to ensure the financial stability of Latin American and East Asian countries, while also expanding U.S. commercial interests in those regions.

Concept note-3: -Dollar Diplomacy, 1909–1913 Taft shared the view held by Knox, a corporate lawyer who had founded the giant conglomerate U.S. Steel, that the goal of diplomacy was to create stability and order abroad that would best promote American commercial interests.

Concept note-4: -Definition of ‘dollar diplomacy’ 1. the policy of using the economic power or influence of a government to promote and protect in other countries the business interests of its private citizens, corporations, etc. 2. the use of economic power by a country to further foreign policy goals.