HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Theodore Roosevelt, Roosevelt Corollary, Monroe Doctrine
14 Jun 2017
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La chica moderna (mexico: modern girl of 1920s &30s, flapper, symbol of post-revolutionary mexican middle class life, challenge of reaf rm cult of domesticity . Women, class, and public space: former slaves, working-class women etc. more in public space, in formal economy, late 19th & early 20th century urban sanitization campaigns force many women out. 1910: direct investment in mx= 1 billion. Petroleum: need for new markets for us products. Teddy roosevelt: woodrow wilson, john f. kennedy. Phase 1: territorial expansion, 1823-97: 1823 monroe doctrine, mexican-american war. Ca and most of northern territory > us: william walker"s invasion of nicaragua (1855) Annex it to us slave south: us increases political and economic intervention in c, america & caribbean. Key moments in imperialist phase: spanish-american war (1898) Platt amendment (1903: panama canal (1903/1914, roosevelt corollary (1905) Shift from military to financial intervention aka noterritorial expansion . Fdr agree to la demands for absolute sovereignty.
