25.4 Imperialism in Latin America

[Preview + Image] What country is shown in this cartoon as "disciplining" Mexico, forcing the "misbehaving child" to take his medicine?

• Cuba

• Nicaragua

• Panama

• United States

[p1] Which of these were results of the Spanish-American War in 1898?

Read the text carefully to learn the correct choices.

• Cuba became an American protectorate.

• The US annexed Puerto Rico.

• Cuba was admitted as a state in the United States.

• Spain agreed to pay the US over $10 million.

[p1] In 1903, US President Teddy Roosevelt supported a rebellion that allowed (a)   to become a new nation.

Hint: the country name has six letters.

[p1] After helping Panama gain its independence, the United States built the _____________ to shorten travel time between the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans.

• Panama Canal

• B&O Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Panama City Bridge

[p1] What did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine do?

• It protected Latin American countries from European invasion.

• It claimed the US could intervene in any Latin American country guilty of "chronic misconduct."

• It opened golf courses & tourist hotels in many Latin American countries.

[p2] In the early 1900s, the United States used "dollar diplomacy" to...

• increase the value of the dollar.

• expand its economic influence in Latin America.

• improve diplomatic relations in Mexico.

• help pay for the Panama Canal.

[p2] What groups supported Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship from 1877-1911?

FOUR of these are correct.

• The Catholic Church

• Large landowners

• Foreign capitalists

• The army

• Mexico's middle class

[p3] Porfirio Diaz was forced from power by ___, who then attempted to reform Mexico's government.

• Pancho Villa

• Emilio Zapata

• Francisco Madero

• Woodrow Wilson

[p3] "The northern states were in near ______ as Pancho Villa's armed masses of bandits swept the countryside."

• anarchy

• famine

• poverty

• prosperity

[p3] What did Emilio Zapata demand in his "new call for reform" (the "Plan de Ayala")?

• To seize and redistribute the estates of wealthy landowners, giving it to the landless peasants.

• To nationalize Mexico's oil industry and place it under government control.

• To hold new elections to replace Francisco Madero's government.