Mr. Bruns showed us this really cool lock thing in water. Got rid of yellow fever, the people in boats would sleep in nets around their bed, to block out all the mosquitos.
In building the canal, 43,000 workers helped, and 56,000 of them died. opened aug. 15, 1914. Cost the US $380 million.
Ruling the Philippines -
Philippines wanted independence. US sent a large percentage of black soldiers to the Philippines. Philippenes asked the blacks why they would fight for a country who was against them, so some of the soldiers turned against America and fought for the Philippenes. The war cost the US 400 million $$. After we got control of the Philippines, we tried to help them. We put up schools, hospitals, electrial stuff, we tried to modernize them. In 1946, Philippines got independence.
The US and Mexico were not on good terms. Mexican government was over thrown by General Victoriano Huerta. Huerta took some US soldiers hostage, and it made Wilson mad, so Wilson sent down some troops to get them out. President Carranza asked the United States to come down to Mexico and control Mexican minds. Killed dozens of Us citizens on two different occasions : one in Mexico, and one when they actually crossed over to New Mexico, on US land, and killed US citizens.
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