Chapter 16 Section 3

The “Big Stick” and the Panama Canal

1) President Roosevelt: “Speak __________ and carry a big ________.”

He believed that the US should use threat of ____________ to carry out its foreign policy.

2) For hundreds of years, boats would go around ________________________ in order to go between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

SOFTLYSTICK

FORCE

SOUTH AMERICA

THE TRIP AROUND SOUTH AMERICA

3) Roosevelt wanted to build a __________ across Central America.

Reason: To _____________ the trip between the oceans.

In 1881, a French company failed to build one in ________________.

______________________ forced the project to end.

CANAL

SHORTEN

PANAMA

DISEASE AND LACK OF MONEY

4) Panama was part of ________________.

This country _________ Roosevelt the access to build a canal through Panama.

In 1903, the people of Panama ________.

Panama was able to get its ____________

and Panama then gave US the land it needed to create a canal.

COLOMBIA

REFUSED

REBELLED

INDEPENDENCE

A canal would be built across the _____________ of Panama.

Panama would get _________________ and _____________ a year in rent.

Before building started, the US had to get rid of the _________________ that carried __________________________________.

ISTHMUS

$10 MILLION$250,000

MOSQUITOESMALARIA AND YELLOW FEVER

5) The US cleared the land and drained the ____________ where mosquitoes

lived.

6) In order to build the canal, workers dug ______________ and cut through ______________.

7) They used the dirt and rocks to build a ________. It made a lake called “Lake Gatun”.

SWAMPS

DITCHESROCKY HILLS

DAM

8) 1914 – the first ________ passed through the Panama Canal.

9) The US controlled the ___________ route between the oceans.

This helped the US become one of the most ______________ nations on earth.

SHIPS

SHORTEST

POWERFUL

10) Many ___________ lived and worked in the Panama Canal Zone until 1979.

11) In 1979, __________ gained most of the control of the Canal Zone.

In 1999, Panama gained complete control

AMERICANS

PANAMA

12) In 1904, Roosevelt issued the _________________________________.

This was added to the ________________ that stated the US would be able to control all the lands between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

The corollary, known as an “addition” stated the US could “______” (be involved) in countries in the Western Hemisphere.

It also _____________ the US to interfere in the affairs of _________________________.

ROOSEVELT COROLLARY

MONROE DOCTRINE

ACT

ALLOWED

LATIN AMERICA