19th century USFP in Latin America
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Nineteenth Century U.S.-Latin American Relations
“Founding Fathers”
• “I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of states.” --Thomas Jefferson
• Adams, Madison, Monroe and Quincy Adams, too!
• “...Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only toward the North American Union...” --U.S. minister to Spain
• Presidents Polk (1840s) and Pierce (1850s) tried to buy Cuba
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
• U.S. hegemony
• Paper tiger
• Influences: “manifest destiny” & Roosevelt Corollary
U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848
• Causes?
• Spot resolution
• Effects
William Walker (1856-1857)
• motives in Nicaragua
• reaction in the USA
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Honduran firing squad
Spanish-American War 1898
• Causes?
• yellow journalism
• protectorate
• Guantanamo Bay
• seeds of Cuban Revolution (1959)
Creation of Panama• Motives
• longterm connection to USFP
“We bought it, we paid for it, we built it, and we intend to keep it.” President Reagan