Name ___________________________________  Team _________

Packet Six       Step Five Worksheet – Relations with Latin America.

Directions:  Complete the ready of pages 631-637 and the reading. Then, for each of the statements below, you will take a position.  AGREE means that you think the statement is accurate and can be supported by data from the reading.  DISAGREE means that you think the statement is false and cannot be supported by the data, or can be proven inaccurate by the data.

“ The Panama Canal was a waste of American money and lives.”

Agree  or disagree

Supporting details (at least two):

“The Roosevelt Corollary increased American power in the Western Hemisphere.”

Agree or disagree

Supporting details (at least two):

Go to the back

“ Although President Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy and President Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy used different methods, the results of the policy were similar.”

Agree or disagree

Supporting details  (at least two):

“Mexico was not an important country to the United States, and American foreign policy mostly ignored events which took place south of the US border.”

Agree or disagree

Supporting details (at least two)