United States InfluenceLate 1800’s – early 1900’s
-United States emerging world power, interferes in the affairs of its southern hemisphere.
-Cuba > protectorate of the U.S. after the Spanish American War of 1898.
-U.S. annexed Puerto Rico 1898.
-In 1908, the U.S. supported a rebellion that enabled Panama to separate from Colombia.
What will the U.S. now control?