USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

[SOURCES]
Which of the following events occurred because of the Roosevelt Corollary?

(A) ** The independence of Panama and the US construction of the Panama Canal.

(B) The Philippine Insurrection and resulting four-year war against American occupation of the Philippines.

(C) The annexation of Cuba and the inclusion of Cuba as a US territory.

(D) The building of a modern, great American navy.

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The corollary stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries.

Concept note-2: -Roosevelt acted quickly. In 1902, the United States reached an agreement to buy rights to the French canal property and equipment for a sum not to exceed $40 million. The U.S. then began negotiating a Panama treaty with Colombia. The U.S Department of War would direct excavation.

Concept note-3: -Roosevelt Corollary, foreign policy declaration by U.S. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt in 1904–05 stating that, in cases of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing by a Latin American country, the United States could intervene in that country’s internal affairs.