Lodge+Corollary


 * __Simple Facts__**
 * Proposed by Henry Cabot Lodge, an 1871 Harvard graduate and Massachusetts senator.
 * It was supported because of America's Nationalism.
 * United States wanted Europe and Asia to leave Latin America alone.
 * Japan was looking to buy part of Mexico near Southern California, Magdelena Bay, which angered many Americans.
 * Most of the Lodge Corollary was based on the Monroe Doctrine.
 * Latin America could not make dealings with the Europeans.
 * Ratified in 1912 by the Senate
 * Under the Act no foreign power could buy any territory in the Western Hemisphere


 * __[[image:http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jga/5.2/images/ambrosius_fig04b.jpg width="378" height="483" caption="Henry Cabot Lodge"]]

Thoughts Behind the Lodge Corollary__**
 * Americans believed that only they had the right to Latin American.
 * All countries feel bound to protect their territories so the US should do the same with Latin America
 * Americans thought larger countries were trying to take advantage of Latin America and that it was America's responsibility to stop them.
 * To get to Latin America, other countries have to get through the US first.
 * __Sources__**
 * [|**http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lodge2.htm**]
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