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What is a narrow strip of land—like Panama—connecting two larger bodies of land called?
Isthmus
100
What lake is at the center of the Panama Canal?
Gatun Lake
100
Why did the French canal plan fail?
Money and disease
100
What disease did Gorgas eliminate from Panama by 1906?
Yellow Fever
100
Who did France buy their canal lease from?
Colombia
200
Why did the US take over the Dominican Republic’s finances?
Anarchy after revolt
200
What was the alternative site for a US canal besides Panama?
Nicaragua
200
What is “Dollar Diplomacy”?
CARROT-AND-STICK OF US INVESTMENT
200
How much was the US to pay for its lease under Hay’s treaty with Colombia?
$10 Million plus $250,000 per year [$40 million to France]
200
Why might the US resent Madero’s overthrow of Diaz’s dictatorship?
DIAZ WAS PRO-US BUSINESS
300
Why didn’t Hay’s treaty over the Panama Canal with Colombia take effect?
Colombia did not ratify it
300
What duty did Wilson say the US had to South American republics?
“TEACH THE South American republics to elect good men”
300
Why weren’t the Colombians able to crush the revolt in Panama?
USS Nasheville prevente Colombia from landing troops
300
Why did Wilson refuse to rcognize Huerta's government?
He murdered Madero
300
How much did the US have to pay Panama for a canal lease?
Same as we would have paid Colombia
400
Why did Wilson decide to authorize arm sales to Carranza?
SO HE COULD BEAT HUERTA
400
What are two mosquito-borne diseases in Panama?
Malaria and Yellow Fever
400
Why did the US seize the port of Veracruz?
SAILORS WERE ARRESTED [AND NO SALUTE]
400
How did the canal affect the US military?
ONE NAVY IN TWO OCEANS
400
What was the advantage of the canal for ships traveling from San Francisco to New York?
½ SHIPPING TIME; GREAT SAVINGS IN COST; CUT ABOUT 7,500 MILES OFF VOYAGE
500
What African proverb summed up TR’s foreign policy?
“SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK!”
500
Who led the US expedition into Mexico?
John "Black Jack" Pershing
500
What was US international police power supposed to prevent?
anarchy; lawlessness
500
Why did the US decide to invade Mexico in an attempt to capture Pancho Villa
HE ATTACKED COLUMBUS, NM
500
Why did TR think his corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was necessary?
EUROPEANS MIGHT TRY AND INTERFERE