today we did blog discussions again.
TEST not TOMORROW!!
STUDYYYYYYY
bought canal from france
colombia refused to let us build a canal
we sent our navy down for support
panama became independent and gave us permission to build the canal
colombia didn't like this
opened in 1914
lock system-
problems:
yellowfever
dirt problems
railroads had to bring goods in and out
ppl would sleep in nets to protect themselves from mosquitos
43000 workers worked on it
one of biggest engineering undertakings
save time
soft volcanic soil was difficult to remove
$380 million
phillipiness- american war:
phillipiness wanted independence
had a lot of racial tension
black soldiers would sometimes fight for the philipiness
we won
philipiness turned against us when they realized that we were going to take them over rather than give them independence liike we did with cuba
more costly $40 million
we tried to americanize them
william h. taft was governor of phillipiness
phillipiness got independence 1946
we helped build infrastructure: roads, hospitals, etc.
still are independent
problems with mexico:
mexican-american war
we took half of their land so we were not on good terms
diplomacy- how we deal with other countries
missionary diplomacy- we would not recognize any government that was pooresssive, undemocratic, and hostile toward the US
watchful waiting- waiting to see what happens with general victoriano huerta if he would be ran out of office
huerto's government- government of butchers; huerto overthrew the government that we liked; he killed many ppl coming to power so we didn't recognize his government
huerto arrested some american saliors
war was extremely close until argentina, brazil, and chile stepped in and tried to settle thte conflict
huerts's gov't collapsed
carranza bcame president
we recognized his gov't
pancho villa- kills dozens of americans on two different occasions
general john pershing go into mexico to capture villa
the mexican army clashed with pershing's forces
1917 both sides backed down (ww1)
our relationship got better as time went on
diplomacy- how one country officially deals with other countries
george washington- US stay to ourselfs and stay out of other countries
100 or so years
policy of isolationism
keeping to ourselves- fixing our own country
new diplomacy- imperialism
taking lands we didn't
1860-
minor compared to other countries
we weren't teh only countries following new diplomacy
captain alfred mahan- wrote about stronger army and navy
TEST IS NOT TOMORROW
we became very involved in latin america
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