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IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL REPUBLIC. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: 1870-1915 A20 w 9.213. “New Manifest Destiny”. GUIDING QUESTION. To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past U. S. expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? .

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IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

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  1. IMPERIAL REPUBLIC FOREIGN AFFAIRS: 1870-1915 A20w 9.213

  2. “New Manifest Destiny”

  3. GUIDING QUESTION To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past U. S. expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Ideals vs. interests?

  4. ArgumentsforOverseasExpansion 1.Economic – new markets U.S. Foreign Investments, 1869-1908

  5. Arguments forOverseasExpansion 2. National Power • New Manifest Destiny? • Keep up with European Powers • social darwinism 3. Military – naval bases • Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890)

  6. Arguments forOverseasExpansion 4. Spread of “Civilization” • Religion American Missionaries in China, 1905

  7. Arguments forOverseasExpansion 5. MaintainAmerican “Frontier” Spirit • Outlet for discontented people of 1890s • Historian Frederick Jackson Turner - Chicago World’s Fair (1893)

  8. Early Expansion Efforts • Alaska • “Seward’s Folly” ($7.2M) Why?

  9. Hawaiian Islands Queen Liliuokalani revolution, 1893 annexation, 1898 Early Expansion Efforts

  10. SPANISH-AMERICAN* WAR 1898 *-Cuban-Filipino

  11. Cuban Rebellion “Butcher Weyler” Causes of the Spanish-American War • Sugar plantations

  12. Yellow journalism William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war” Hearst to Frederic Remington, 1897 Causes of the Spanish-American War William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer Updating the Crowds about Cuba

  13. Causes of the Spanish-American War • “Jingoism” • Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy

  14. Causes of the Spanish-American War • De Lômè letter • “Remember the Maine” Cruiser Maine in Havana Harbor Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine

  15. Commodore Dewey Battle of Manila Bay The Spanish-American War in the Philippines

  16. The Spanish-American War in Cuba • Rough Riders • “A splendid little war” • Treaty of Paris, 1899

  17. American Empire, 1900

  18. AMERICA’S NEW ROLE Power vs. Ideals????

  19. Philippine-American War (1899-1902) Emilio Aguinaldo William Howard Taft The Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo

  20. American Anti-Imperialist League • Founded in 1898 • Among its members: Mark Twain (VP), Andrew Carnegie, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Jane Addams • Campaigned against the annexation of the Philippines and other acts of imperialism

  21. Cuban Independence? Platt Amendment (1903) • Cuba was not to enter in to any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence or grant military bases • The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent government • Cuba would lease to the U.S. naval and coaling stations (Guantanamo Bay)

  22. China • Boxer Rebellion (1900)

  23. China: Open Door Policy

  24. Panama Canal

  25. Panama Canal • Panamanian Rebellion – U.S. Role • U.S. & Latin America

  26. Intervention in Latin America • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905) • “Dollar Diplomacy” • Pancho Villa

  27. US Interventions in Latin America 1898-1934

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