What was the focus of the U.S. policies in the Caribbean and in the Far East? ... With this interest in mind, the United States developed a Caribbean policy to ensure its dominance in the region. ... It made no mention of disarmament, free trade, or freedom of the seas. ...
The construction of the Panama Canal had not yet been completed and Roosevelt needed United States relations with the nations of the Caribbean Sea to remain undivided. ... The military's endless involvement in the Caribbean Sea did nothing for the image of the United States, and only helped Roosevelt's Corollary promote the "Bad Neighbor" policy. ...
American Imperialism The United States became an imperialist nation in the very late 1800's, the Americans wanted to expand over seas with their belief in manifest destiny. ... After having routed Spain the United States secured undisputed control of the American Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. ... Now that America's territory stretched from the Caribbean across the Pacific, a canal was greatly needed. ... If every country washed by the Carribean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt Amendment, Cuba h...
"Men say he [Teddy Roosevelt] is not safe. He is not safe for the men who wish to prosecute selfish schemes to the public detriment . . . who wish government to be conducted with greater reference to campaign contributions than to the public good . . . who wish to draw the President of the United States into a corner and make whispered arrangements which they dare not have known by their constituents." Elihu Root, 1904. Teddy Roosevelt devoted his adult life to civil service in order to make life for American citizens better. He was a man with a large collection of interests; a man who poss...
His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ... A number of U.S. interventions in the Caribbean and Central America were undertaken largely to protect the canal from hostile powers. ... The French had attempted to build a canal at sea level, but grossly underestimated the difficulty of achieving this goal. ...
