AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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Question
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Decrease sailing time between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Force transcontinental railroads to reduce their rates
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Fulfill obligations under a treaty with the French.
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Protect the native cultures of Central American countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal-a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
Detailed explanation-2: -The main reason the United States decided to build a canal across Panama instead of Nicaragua was that: the land and building rights were less expensive. How did President Theodore Roosevelt resolve a dispute with Japan over immigration? He stopped discrimination against Japanese immigrants.
Detailed explanation-3: -“There is too much water, the rocks are exceedingly hard, the soil is very hilly and the climate is deadly. The country is literally poisoned, ” complained senior French engineer Adolphe Godin de Lépinay. Outbreaks of dysentery and epidemics of yellow fever and malaria decimated the workforce.