Test tomorrow and thurs, for now. might get pushed back to thurs and friday.
if we can raise $30 per class by dec 7th, we get a blog free week and a treat. yay.
we're finishing blog discussions today, and finally seeing ally's presentation video, i think.
panama canal recap and fin.-
panama is an isthmus, a smlall peice of land connecting to larger peices of lands.
so, columbia agreeed to let france try and build the canal, but when we came along, they wouldnt let us do anyhting. so we encouraged panama to revolt against columbia, tellin ghtem we'd recognize their independence. so they did, and we did, and they let us build the canal in their land. culombia was not happy, but oh well. fun little animation expainling how locks work. no sound, really old, but it did its job.
panama canal took about 10 years to build. problems were that the soil was like sand- filled back up as soon as it was removed. also, they had to get rid of the yellow fever issues before they could really get started. also had to build railroads to bring building supplies. we bought the land from france for $40million. we signe d a bill so we paid panama an initial 10million, then 250000 a year for the land. now, of course, the land belongs to panama. the whole panama canal episode cost usa 380 million dollars.
Ruling the Phillipines -
Phillipine American War. Filipinos wanted independence, like cuba. usa was racist still...large amount of soldiers sent over were black, so some of them fought for the philipines instead of for the usa. we won. we lost 400million dollars on the war, even though it was never officially a war. we did try to americanize them. first governor of the philiines was wiliam howard taft. we added infestructure, helped them modernize for quite a while. they did get their independence after WW2 though.
Problems with Mexico -
relations between mexico and usa have been dicey throughout history.
Missionary Diplomacy: Woodrow Wilson's policy: US government would not recognize unfirendly governments, or governments who were uncruel and unfair to their people. Wilson's Watch and Wait policy: lets wait and see what happens to Huerta (who came to power through violent overthrow, so we didnt recognize him). he had an anti-american attitude, which made him somewhat popular with mexicans.
war nearly breaks out on 2 occasions. 1sd time- Huerta took some usa soldiers and kept them prisoner. made us mad, so we tried to get them back. arbitrators stepped in to mediate before war actually broke out. we accepted it, but mexico didnt. thus, huerta's government was then gone. Carranza became president. we like him, but we wasnt quite popular with mexicans because he was friendly with us. 2nd time war almost broke out...Pancho Villa was a pro-american outlaw, but changed his mind, after carranza asked usa to come help control mexican mines. so he killed multiple americans on both sides of the us-mexican border. wilson ordered troups into mexico to capture him. eventually mexican army retalliated. but then it was 1917, and we all had bigger problems with WW2.
Moving on to something or other. us becomes involved in foreign affiars.
Diplomacy- how one country deals with other countries.
Old Diplomacy: george washington: said usa should stay out of other countries' stuff. policy of isolationalism. was pretty easy, since we had the west and civil war and stuff. and we werent strong yet, military wise. this policy continued for about 120 years, in which we improved ourselves.
New Diplomacy: imperialistic, started in the 1860s with hawaii and whatnot. after the spanish american war, we really got involved with foreign affairs. we had a much stronger army and navy, we had strong nationalism and patriotism. it was pointed out how all world powers had strong navys, and teddy roosevelt read that book, and acted upon the theory. thus, we emerged as a world power.
Interventionalsim: self-explanitory. we were exceptionally involved with latin america, to the point they hated us, saw us as big bullies....makes sense.
test will be moved to thursday and friday. tomorrow will be spent finalizing things.
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