the whiteman’s burden – by rudyard kipling · roosevelt’s corollary u.s. would act as...
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Racism
The Whiteman’s Burden – By Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden--
The savage wars of peace--
Fill full the mouth of Famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
Square Deal •Reforms of the Progressives
start with President
Roosevelt….
•Bad Trusts vs. Good Trusts
•Take the side of labor
•Limiting corruption in the
workplace
•Conservation
TR, the “Trustbuster” •Filed more than 40 anti-trust suits using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
•Northern Securities
•Standard Oil
•Swift Beef
TR’s Conservation Policy
•125,000 acres in reserve
•Founding of the National Park
System
Roosevelt picture at canal
•Roosevelt at the canal
•Important to the destiny
of the US
•Began in 1904 and
completed by 1914
•Americans needed a shorter route between the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans.
quick access to Atlantic &
Pacific
military protection of
territories
trade & economic value would increase
Panama Revolution
•Negotiations with Columbia failed.
•President Roosevelt helped instigate the Panamanian Revolution to overthrow the
Colombian government.
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
•Recognized Panama as
an independent nation
•Paid $10 million for the
canal zone.
•$250,000 yearly rental
•Eventually Panama
would regain the Canal
zone.
•Jan. 1, 2000, the canal
zone belongs to Panama
Roosevelt Corollary
US FOREIGN POLICY, ask first but bring
along a big army to help convince them.
Threaten to use force, act as
international policemen.
ROOSEVELT’S COROLLARY
U.S. would act as international
policemen. An addition to the
Monroe Doctrine.
Roosevelt Corollary
Big Stick Policy: “Speak softly and carry a big stick”.
Also referred to as “Roosevelt’s Corollary”
