We are continuing with Ch. 10 blog discussionsChina.. ContinuedChina did not want foreigners taking land. We tried to save China because we wanted to be able to trade with them. Boxers are Chinese who didn't want foreigners-French, others. Boxer Rebellion is when the Boxers attacked and hundereds of Europeans and they attacked back.Taking Control of the Panama CanalFrench started to build it, but they failed because of disease and it was costly. The emperor of Spain decided to look into it because he thought it would be easier for ships to travel. Panama did not want us to build it. The United States eventually got control and was given the rights to build the canal. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build and thousands of people died.Foreign PoliciesThe Monroe Doctrine was an American foreign policy opposing interference or colonization in the western hemisphere, or the Americas, from the European government. Also, the United States would not interfere with European colonies. It basically said that the Americas no longer were open to European colonization, and any attempt to do so would be considered as “dangerous to the peace and safety” of the Americans, and it said “to leave the Americas to the Americans”.The Roosevelt Corollary was an amendment to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 by President Theodore Roosevelt. This stated that the United States would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America.The Big Stick Diplomacy was the idea of negotiating peacefully, but threatening with a ‘big stick’. The big stick was the military. This stated that the United States would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America.The Dollar Diplomacy was influenced by economic situations, in which the United States tried to expand foreign policy in Latin America and East Asia by promising loans from American businesspeople to them. This was created under the presidency of William H. Taft. Taft said that by using this, the situation in Latin America went from “warlike and political” to “peaceful and economic”.Wilson’s Missionary Diplomacy was the idea to not recognize any Latin America government that was seen as intimidating to America’s intentions.
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