After the U.S annexation of the Dominican Republic as Dominica in 1921, Trujillo was appointed to serve as lieutenant governor of the territory of Hispaniola. After Governor Woodrow Wilson's death in 1924, President Lodge appointed Trujillo as the new governor. As governor, Trujillo tightened his economic and political domination over the island, introduced Jim Crow, and expanded his influence across Central America and the South. Eventually, his corrupt business practices and Latino ethnicity would lead to the Cristobal scandal of 1930, at the height of the Great Depression. Targeted by racist and populist senators, Trujillo was forced to resign, although he maintained an economic grip over his island. Trujillo was banished to become a General in the American protectorate of the Hejaz, wh