USA HISTORY

“When President [Theodore] Roosevelt completes his visit . . . he will have enjoyed the distinction of having overseen the preliminary preparations for several of the most marvelous feats of engineering ever done by the hand of man and some of the most wonderful artificial changes in physical geography ever wrought on the globe.”-The New York Tribune, November 12, 1906 This excerpt from a newspaper article describes a visit by Theodore Roosevelt to what location?

(A) San Juan Hill

(B) the Grand Canyon

(C) ** the Isthmus of Panama

(D) Yellowstone National Park

Concept note-1: -Which statement best describes President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy position toward Latin America in the early 1900’s? The Monroe Doctrine permits the United States to intervene actively in the affairs of Latin American nations.

Concept note-2: -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.

Concept note-3: -Roosevelt stated that in keeping with the Monroe Doctrine, the United States was justified in exercising “international police power” to put an end to chronic unrest or wrongdoing in the Western Hemisphere.

Concept note-4: -The idea is negotiating peacefully but also having strength in case things go wrong. Simultaneously threatening with the “big stick", or the military, ties in heavily with the idea of Realpolitik, which implies a pursuit of political power that resembles Machiavellian ideals.