HIS377H1 Lecture : HIS377 Lecture Jan 16.docx
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Columbia was not comfortable with this: us then gave columbia a treaty where they would give columbia $ and us would have a lease to the land, roosevelt knows that there is liberation movements and dissent in panama, he decides to support the panama independence movement, revolt beings and the panama revolt ends in panama independence (nov 3 1903, panama gets independences, us gets canal zone, this was kind of a shady thing for roosevelt to do. He went behind congresses back, etc: spain is collapsing, countries are going into debt without spain and therefore take out loans, venezuela owed money to many european countries, defaulted on loans, us becomes concerned that these european countries might come in to recoup some of their , this would go against the monroe doctrine, roosevelt is concerned in 1904 he introduces the corollary, big stick diplomacy and the roosevelt corollary (1904)
