NOTICE . These slides are provided to augment the lectures presented in Dr. Hatley’s History 2493-US Since 1877 course. If you miss class, you should not assume that merely perusing these will provide you with sufficient information to do well on examinations.
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NOTICE These slides are provided to augment the lectures presented in Dr. Hatley’s History 2493-US Since 1877 course. If you miss class, you should not assume that merely perusing these will provide you with sufficient information to do well on examinations.
Aftermath of the Spanish-American War (1898) The war of the United States with Spain was very brief. Its results were many, startling, and of world-wide meaning. ―US Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
Philippine Islands • William McKinley decided to keep the Philippines, “in order to uplift and civilize, and Christianize” the Filipinos • US acquired the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam and paid Spain $20,000,000.
Cuba • Platt Amendment (1901) • Created an independent Cuban government • Cuba forbidden to incur debts that it could not pay • Cuba could not make treaties with other countries that could undermine its independence
Cuba US would lease a 28,000 acre Naval base at Guantánamo, Bay
Cuba • US could intervene to protect Cuban independence • US acquired other possessions in the Pacific
The US Becomes a World Power • Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) • The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890)
The US Becomes a World Power The United States became a major player in world affairs and increasingly involved in Latin America
China • Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) • Formosa (Taiwan) • “spheres of influence” • US had its own interests in China: • railroad investment
China • Fear of growing Japanese influence • American emotional investment
China • Secretary of State John M. Hay • Initiated the “Open Door Policy”
China • Peking (Beijing) • Boxer Rebellion (1899-1900)
China • The Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists • Boxers were anti-foreign and anti-Christian
China Farthing family, English missionaries murdered by Boxers (1900)
China • China had to pay the coalition nations $333,000,000 in reparations (Russia got most of it). • Most of the US share, $25,000,000, was later returned to China with the understanding that it be used to educate Chinese students in the US
The Panama Canal • Isthmian canal • Why a Canal? • trade stimulus • Strategic concerns (naval and military)
The Panama Canal Battleship USS Oregon made the two-month and 14,000-mile voyage from Bremerton, Washington to Cuba (1898)
The Panama Canal • Three obstacles to US acquisition of an isthmian canal: • La belle France
The Panama Canal • Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) • Suez Canal (1859-1869)
The Panama Canal French were hampered by: cholera, diphtheria, malaria, small pox, tuberculosis, and yellow fever; over 20,000 French died ants antiquated equipment poor financing
The Panama Canal • Neither nation would gain exclusive rights from Colombia to build a canal; mutual control • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901) • equal passage for all nations
The Panama Canal • Colombia • Panama was a reluctant provincia of Colombia
The Panama Canal • Hay-Herrán Treaty (1903) • Strip of land six miles wide • $10,000,000 in gold up front • $250,000 annual rental fee • Colombian Senate demanded $25,000,000
The Panama Canal With US support, Panamanians revolted on 3 November 1903
The Panama Canal Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero (1833-1909) (1904-1908)
The Panama Canal República de PanamáHay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)
The Panama Canal The treaty was the same as that offered Colombia, except that the US got a strip of land ten miles wide
The Panama Canal • $10,000,000 up front • $250,000 annual rental fee (annuity) • Opened 14 August 1914
The Panama Canal Tremendous economic boom for Panama Carter-Torrijos Treaty (1978) Canal would come under Panamanian control at noon on 31 December 1999
