Transcript Becoming a World Power 17-3

New American Diplomacy
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Election of 1900
President McKinley v. William Jennings Bryan (an anti-imperialist)
 McKinley reelected with Roosevelt as VP (charismatic, heroic,
outspoken)
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ASSASSINATION!
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Roosevelt becomes youngest president (42)
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Believed the U.S. had the duty to shape the “less civilized” parts
of the world
Roosevelt : refused to idle-America should be a world
power on the world stage
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1899 U.S. major power in Asia- 1895 and 1900
American exports to China quadrupled
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Interest in Asia was commerce not conquest
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1894-war between China and Japan over Korea
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Japan’s power concerned Russia
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“Leasehold” became the center of the
sphere of influence (an area where a
foreign nation controlled economic
development such railroad and mining)
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Germany, France, and Britain
wanted “leaseholds”
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McKinley and Sec. of State Hay
supported Open Door Policy in
China
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Secret Chinese societies were organized to end foreign
control “Boxers”
Members started the Boxer Rebellion
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1906 Roosevelt won the Noble Peace Prize for ending the
war between Japan and Russia
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Russia recognized Japan’s territory gain and Japan agreed to stop
fighting and seek no further territory
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1907 The Great White Fleet
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16 battleships of the US Navy was sent around the world to show the
country’s military strength
Didn’t help the tensions that already existed
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Roosevelt believed in strong global military presence
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
1901-Hay-Peuncefote Treaty (US and Britain) gave US exclusive
rights to build and control any proposed canal through Central
America
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Canal was viewed as vital to save time and money
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Construction of the 50 mile canal took 10 years
Shortened the distance from the Atlantic to Pacific by
8,000 nautical miles
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1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Roosevelt
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated… Chronic
wrongdoing… may in America, as elsewhere,
ultimately require intervention by some
civilized nation, and in the Western
Hemisphere the adherence of the United
States to the Monroe Doctrine may force
the United States, however reluctantly, in
flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or
impotence, to the exercise of an
international police power
First in applied to Dominican Republic
US became resented in Latin America
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Howard Taft continued Roosevelt’s policies
Put less influence on military force and more on helping
American industry
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Believed that if American business leaders supported Latin America
and Asian development everyone would benefit
 Increase trade, profits, countries would rise out of poverty and social
disorder
 Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
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“substitute dollars for bullets”