Question

will award medal! Which phrase characterizes U.S. policy toward Latin America during the Progressive Era?

friendly and trusting

tolerant and humanitarian

indifferent and uninvolved

paternalistic and interventionist

Answer 1

I'd say paternalistic and interventionist. As the US grew in power, it viewed stepping into Latin America's backyard whenever their aims did not fit as a part of its mandate. If a US business was in trouble in a Latin American country, for example, the US would roll in and "fix" things.

It's one of the reasons why there's still a bit of bad blood between a number of Latin American nations and the US even today -- they all point back to how badly we trampled over their sovereign rights in order to push our own agendas.