Homework Check 5.3

As president, Theodore Roosevelt opposed the Open Door policy in China and worked to establish an American trade monoply there.

• True

• False

The United States first applied the Roosevelt Corollary in the Dominican Republic, which had fallen behind on its debt payments to European nations.

• True

• False

The United States constructed the Panama Canal after a French company had abandoned its own efforts to do so.

• True

• False

President William Howard Taft's "dollar diplomacy" placed less emphasis on military force and more on helping Latin American industry.

• True

• False

Woodrow Wilson wanted Victoriano Huerta to be in power in Mexico, but he was mudered by the forces of Fransisco Madero.

• True

• False

In 1899 the United States was a major power in

• Africa.

• the Middle East.

• Asia.

• the Mediterranean.

Under the Open Door policy promoted by Secretary of State John Hay,

• all countries would be allowed to trade with China.

• China would be broken up into European colonies.

• America's sphere of influence in China would grow.

• more countries would be given leaseholds in China.

In 1903 the United States negotiated with  _________________  for the right to build a canal through its province of Panama,

• Mexico

• Columbia

• Spain

• Nicaragua

Which of the following was an effect of Wilson's policies in Mexico between 1914 and 1917?

• Wilson's policies were ridiculed and U.S. foreign relations were damaged.

• Trade between the United States and Latin America was halted for several years.

• The United States successfully established a stable government in Mexico.

• The United States became a respected international peacekeeping force.