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Chapter 16 Section 3
The “Big Stick” and the Panama Canal
1) President Roosevelt: “Speak __________ and carry a big ________.”
He believed that the US should use threat of ____________ to carry out its foreign policy.
2) For hundreds of years, boats would go around ________________________ in order to go between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
SOFTLYSTICK
FORCE
SOUTH AMERICA
THE TRIP AROUND SOUTH AMERICA
3) Roosevelt wanted to build a __________ across Central America.
Reason: To _____________ the trip between the oceans.
In 1881, a French company failed to build one in ________________.
______________________ forced the project to end.
CANAL
SHORTEN
PANAMA
DISEASE AND LACK OF MONEY
4) Panama was part of ________________.
This country _________ Roosevelt the access to build a canal through Panama.
In 1903, the people of Panama ________.
Panama was able to get its ____________
and Panama then gave US the land it needed to create a canal.
COLOMBIA
REFUSED
REBELLED
INDEPENDENCE
A canal would be built across the _____________ of Panama.
Panama would get _________________ and _____________ a year in rent.
Before building started, the US had to get rid of the _________________ that carried __________________________________.
ISTHMUS
$10 MILLION$250,000
MOSQUITOESMALARIA AND YELLOW FEVER
5) The US cleared the land and drained the ____________ where mosquitoes
lived.
6) In order to build the canal, workers dug ______________ and cut through ______________.
7) They used the dirt and rocks to build a ________. It made a lake called “Lake Gatun”.
SWAMPS
DITCHESROCKY HILLS
DAM
8) 1914 – the first ________ passed through the Panama Canal.
9) The US controlled the ___________ route between the oceans.
This helped the US become one of the most ______________ nations on earth.
SHIPS
SHORTEST
POWERFUL
10) Many ___________ lived and worked in the Panama Canal Zone until 1979.
11) In 1979, __________ gained most of the control of the Canal Zone.
In 1999, Panama gained complete control
AMERICANS
PANAMA
12) In 1904, Roosevelt issued the _________________________________.
This was added to the ________________ that stated the US would be able to control all the lands between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
The corollary, known as an “addition” stated the US could “______” (be involved) in countries in the Western Hemisphere.
It also _____________ the US to interfere in the affairs of _________________________.
ROOSEVELT COROLLARY
MONROE DOCTRINE
ACT
ALLOWED
LATIN AMERICA
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