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Title: Roosevelt and Latin America


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Roosevelt and Latin America
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Disease
  • Yellow Fever killed as many as 85 of the people
    infected with it in Cuba.
  • This posed a great dilemma for America as order
    was trying to be established in Latin America
    after the Spanish American War.
  • Cuban Doctor Juan Finlay believed that Mosquitoes
    spread this disease and American Army Doctors
    proved this to be scientifically true.

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Yellow Fever
  • Mosquitos are naturally attracted to standing
    water.
  • U.S. Army Doctor William C. Gorgas realized this
    and made a plan to drain all pools of standing
    water.
  • Six months later, yellow fever was virtually
    eliminated from the city of Havana.

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U.S. Control Over Cuba
  • Leonard Wood, the appointed governor of Cuba,
    oversaw the drafting of a new Cuban Constitution.
  • America ignored the Teller Amendment idea and
    instead created the Platt Amendment- limited
    Cubas ability to sign treaties with other
    nations and the U.S. could intervene in Cuban
    affairs.
  • This lead to the creation of a naval base at
    Guantanamo Bay.

5
Governing Puerto Rico
  • The U.S. didnt make P.R. a protectorate, instead
    it became it became a governed territory like the
    Philippines.
  • Foraker Act- The U.S. would appoint Puerto Ricos
    governor and upper house of its legislature.
    Puerto Rican voters would elect the lower house.
  • 1917- Granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans.

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Teddy and the Panama Canal
  • In the 1880s, the French company began creating a
    canal across the Isthmus of Panama, but went
    bankrupt.
  • In 1902, the U.S. bought the rights to the French
    canal property and equipment.

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Teddy and the Panama Canal
  • Panamanian revolutionaries were plotting to break
    free of Colombian rule.
  • Roosevelt support the rebellion.
  • Panama declared its independence and the U.S.
    recognized the Republic of Panama.
  • Soon a treaty gave the U.S. complete and unending
    sovereignty over a 10 mile wide canal.

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Working on the Panama Canal
  • There was harsh work conditions, not enough
    workers, and Yellow Fever was still a problem in
    Panama.
  • After 1 month of work, nearly all U.S.
    construction workers had malaria.
  • Dr. William C. Gorgas comes again and helps limit
    the cases of malaria and Yellow Fever.

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Malaria
  • Sanitation workers drained swamps, cleared
    vegetation, spread oil on polls of standing
    water, and bred spiders and lizards..Why?
  • By 1914, work had been successful and the S.S.
    Ancon became the first ship to pass officially
    through the Panama Canal.
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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
  • The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed that the Western
    Hemisphere was off limits to further colonization
    by European nations.
  • Roosevelt Corollary to the M.D.- Speak softly
    and carry a big stick.
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