1. Connection with slavery issue.
2. Paraguay, 1857-59.
1. Contractual,—Alsop, Cerutti, Landreau.
2. Tortuous,—Case of Moreno; Benton Case; Renton Case.
2. Hispanic-American attitude toward the United States.
a. In politics and diplomacy.
b. In commerce.
Readings: Ugarte, El porvenir de la America latina; Sotolongo, El Imperialismo Norte Americano; Merlos, America latina ante el peligro; Weyl, American World Policies, Chapter XV; Gondra, Los Estados Unidos y las Naciones Americanas.
a. In politics and diplomacy.
b. In commerce.
3. Efforts at coöperation and friendship:
a. Evolution of Pan Americanism.
b. The Pan American Union:
1. Organization and purposes.
2. Control and accomplishments.
c. Pan American congresses: Washington, (1889); Mexico City, (1902); Rio de Janiero, (1906); Buenos Aires, (1910).
d. Inter-American financial congresses: Washington, (1915); Buenos Aires, (1916).
e. The peace and arbitration treaties.
f. Cultural inter-relations; scientific conferences, increase of trade and travel; exchange of teachers and college professors.
g. Proposals of an inter-American league of nations.
4. The Drago Doctrine and the Porter Doctrine.
5. Latin America at the second Hague Conference.
a. Evolution of Pan Americanism.
b. The Pan American Union:
1. Organization and purposes.
2. Control and accomplishments.
c. Pan American congresses: Washington, (1889); Mexico City, (1902); Rio de Janiero, (1906); Buenos Aires, (1910).
d. Inter-American financial congresses: Washington, (1915); Buenos Aires, (1916).
e. The peace and arbitration treaties.
f. Cultural inter-relations; scientific conferences, increase of trade and travel; exchange of teachers and college professors.
g. Proposals of an inter-American league of nations.
1. Organization and purposes.
2. Control and accomplishments.
Readings: Hull, The United States and Latin America at the Hague; Quesada, La Doctrina Drago (Rev. de la Univ., B.A., 1919).
6. The Platt Amendment:
a. Relations with Cuba; interventions.
7. Caribbean Interests of the United States:
1. Political and economic conditions in the Caribbean area; effects and influences of the Spanish-American War.
2. Strategic importance; United States as a Caribbean power.
a. Porto Rico as a dependency.
b. Territorial government; the insular cases; the question of citizenship.
c. The Virgin Islands.
3. Dominant position of the United States:
a. In commerce.
b. Financial agreements with Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua.
c. The Panama Canal as a factor in the problem; status of the Republic of Panama with respect to the United States.
d. Naval bases of the United States; lease of the Corn Islands.
e. Interventions of the United States.
4. Relations of the United States and Venezuela, Colombia, Central America.
5. Attitude of Caribbean peoples toward the United States; problem of self-determination.
6. Contemporary tendencies.
Readings: Jones, Caribbean Interests of the United States; Bonsal, The American Mediterranean; Westergaard, The Danish West Indies, 1671-1917; De Booy and Faris, The Virgin Islands.
a. Relations with Cuba; interventions.