1901-1909

1858-1919 New York Sickly Child/ Cowboy Image Harvard NYPD Commissioner Navy Department Rough Rider Governor of NY Vice President

Bully Pulpit

1904 5th Largest Navy in the world 1907 3rd Largest Navy in the world Great White Fleet (1907-1909)

18 Ships 14 Months 14,000 Men

1898-1902 Philippe Bunau-Varilla lobbies Congress to buy canal company

1850 Clayton-Bulwer (US/UK) 1901 Hay-Paunceforte (US/UK) 1903 Hay-Herran Treaty (US/Col.) 1903 Panama revolts with US help 1903 Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty (US/Pan) 1914 Canal Opens

Better Machines/Medicine 5600+ die

1904 US will intervene in financially unstable

Western nations Cuba (1906-1910) Nicaragua (1909-1933) Haiti (1915-1934) Dominican Rep. (1916-1924)

Speak Softly,Speak Softly,But Carry a Big Stick!But Carry a Big Stick!

1904-1905 Russia loses badly Japan a rising power Treaty of Portsmouth

Yellow Peril 1906- San Francisco segregates schools “Gentlemen's Agreement” Root-Takahira Agreement (1908)

Spheres of Influence