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washai · **on:** Sep 3, 2018

Which act stipulated that neither Britain nor the United States would claim control over the Panama canal and that neither would fortify the areas around Central America.

a. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
b. Monroe Doctrine
c. Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930
d. National Origins Act of 1924
e. Wilson's Fourteen Points

Question 2

Based on the text, the Monroe Doctrine

a. stated that the United States would stay out of the economic and political affairs of Latin America and Europe if all other states made the same pledge.
b. contended that the United States had rights and interests in the Western Hemisphere.
c. rejected the isolationist sentiment toward Europe that Washington had announced some twenty years earlier.
d. suggested that American intervention into European affairs may be necessary to stop the continuous wars in that region of the world.
e. Both options B and D are true.