Objective

2. Objective • Students will be able to explain how American Presidents’ foreign policy reflected American imperialism by identifying quotes from famous Presidential speeches.

3. Essential Question • How did American Presidents’ foreign policy reflect American imperialism?

4. Film Clip: American Foreign Policy1900-1914 Pair-Share: Compare the similarities and difference between the three Presidential diplomacies.

5. Students -take Notes on this handout

6. President Theodore Roosevelt“The Big Stick Diplomacy” • Believed in the West African saying “speak softly and carry a big stick” • Basic Idea 1. U.S. could oppose European Intervention in the Western Hemisphere. 2. U.S. could assume “police power” in any nation in the Western Hemisphere that was unstable or uncivilized • Example: • Used when U.S gained control of the Panama Canal • Collecting Dominican debt • The intentions of this diplomacy was to protect U.S. $ interests in Latin America • Roosevelt Corollary: Europeans are to keep out of western hemisphere

7. Latin America

8. Film Clip: The Panama Canal

9. Pair-Share:Level 1 Question: Describe what you SEE in the cartoon.Level 2 Question: Describe what you think is HAPPENING in the cartoon.Level 3 Question: Predict what you think is the author’s opinion of Roosevelt’s foreign policy.

10. President William Taft“Dollar Diplomacy” • Believed in “Dollar Diplomacy” • Basic Idea: 1. Protect American money invested in other countries 2. use money and business to get your way in the world 3. Improve the economic status of Latin American countries. • Examples • 1912 Taft sent marines to Nicaragua to support pro-U.S. rebels that agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Once the new government was in place he forced Nicaragua to accept a loan from New York Bankers, which benefited American Interests.

11. Film Clip: Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

12. President Woodrow Wilson“Moral Diplomacy” • Believed in “Moral Diplomacy” • Basic Idea: 1. use honesty and cooperation with foreign countries 2. U.S. has moral obligation to spread democracy • Example • Wilson supported leaders of other countries who he thought supported democracy.

13. Film Clip: Wilson’s Foreign Policy

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16. Review Game: Guess who said it! • A quote from a speech will be displayed. • You will have to guess who said it: • Roosevelt, Taft or Wilson

17. Who said it? • “Sheer honesty and even unselfishness…should prevail over nationalistic self-seeking in American foreign policy” • Please copy this quote to your notes • Wilson

18. Who said it? • “ It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger… All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable, orderly, and prosperous.” • Please copy this quote to your notes • Roosevelt

19. Who said it? • “America’s mission was to realize an ideal of liberty, provide a model of democracy, vindicate moral principle, give examples of action and ideals of government, uphold the rights of man, work for humanity and the happiness of men everywhere, lead the thinking of the world, promote peace – in sum, to serve mankind and progress.” • Wilson

20. Who said it? “I took the isthmus.” • Roosevelt

21. Who said it? • “Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship.” • Roosevelt

22. Who said it? • “Substituting dollars for bullets.” • Please copy this quote to your notes • Taft

23. Who said it? • “If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.” • Roosevelt

24. Who said it? • “Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of civilized society may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require… the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly… cases of such wrongdoing…exercise of an international police power.” • Roosevelt

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