Chapter 23 Lesson 4 Latin American Policies

The Panama Canal runs through the middle of Panama connecting which two oceans?

• Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
• Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
• Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
• Carribean Sea and Pacific Ocean

What was the reason for building the Panama Canal?

• To help ships travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean faster
• To allow soldiers to travel by sea
• To create an easier way for the USS Maine to reach Cuba
• To help immigrants get to America

The policy of intervening in other nations' affairs when American business interests are threatened is called _______________.

• the Monroe Doctrine

• the Roosevelt Corollary

• Moral diplomacy

• Dollar diplomacy

Dollar diplomacy is associated mainly with which U.S. president?

• James Monroe

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

In 1911 popular Mexican reformer ____________ led a successful revolution against rich landholders and U.S. investors.

• Francisco Madero

• Venustiano Carranza

• Victoriano Huerta

• Pancho Villa

Woodrow Wilson favored using military force as the primary instrument of American foreign policy.

• True

• False

President ______ ordered American troops to seize the port of Veracruz after General Huerta's troops arrested some American sailors.

• Wilson

• Taft

• Cleveland

• Roosevelt

General Pershing's troops captured Pancho Villa in 1917.

• True

• False

Whose favorite proverb was "Speak softly and carry a big stick?

• Theodore Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson 
• William McKinley
• James Manroe 

The United States began to act as an "international police force" as a result of...

• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

• The Monroe Corollary to the Roosevelt Doctrine

• The Baseball Bat Doctrine

• The International Police Force Doctrine