Zachariah
Banned
The US occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the authority of US President Woodrow Wilson. The first invasion forces had already disembarked from USS Montana on January 27, 1914. The July intervention took place following the murder of dictator President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam by insurgents angered by his political executions of elite opposition, with the USA regarding the anti-American revolt against Sam as a threat to American business interests in the country, especially the Haitian American Sugar Company (HASCO).
In September 1915, the US Senate ratified the Haitian-American Convention, a treaty granting the USA security and economic oversight of Haiti for a 10-year period, with representatives from the USA wielded veto power over all governmental decisions in Haiti, and Marine Corps commanders serving as administrators in the departments. And for the next nineteen years, U.S., government advisers ruled the country, their authority provided by the United States Marine Corps. So then, what if the USA had decided to go all out, make it official, and pursued expansion by ratifying the outright annexation of Haiti instead? What kind of backlash and hostility might this provoke in Haiti and the rest of the Americas, and what would American citizens make of it?
In September 1915, the US Senate ratified the Haitian-American Convention, a treaty granting the USA security and economic oversight of Haiti for a 10-year period, with representatives from the USA wielded veto power over all governmental decisions in Haiti, and Marine Corps commanders serving as administrators in the departments. And for the next nineteen years, U.S., government advisers ruled the country, their authority provided by the United States Marine Corps. So then, what if the USA had decided to go all out, make it official, and pursued expansion by ratifying the outright annexation of Haiti instead? What kind of backlash and hostility might this provoke in Haiti and the rest of the Americas, and what would American citizens make of it?