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AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD. Expansionism v. Imperialism Formal v. Informal Empire . AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD. American Foreign Policy Before 1890s Monroe Doctrine (1823) Why Overseas Involvement in the 1890s Closing of the internal frontier Desire to acquire overseas markets

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AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD

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  1. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Expansionism v. Imperialism • Formal v. Informal Empire

  2. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • American Foreign Policy Before 1890s • Monroe Doctrine (1823) • Why Overseas Involvement in the 1890s • Closing of the internal frontier • Desire to acquire overseas markets • Racial nationalism (“civilizing mission”) • A progressive urge? • Prestige factor • Alfred Thayer Mahan

  3. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Spanish-American War: an important break with previous patterns of U.S. expansion • Cuba and the Spanish-American War of 1898 • Cuban revolution (“Butcher Weyler”)

  4. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine – • February 1898

  5. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Teller Amendment • “A splendid little war”

  6. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Acquisition of colonies: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines • Anti-Imperialist League

  7. AMERICA ENTERS THE WOLRD • Platt Amendment and Cuban independence • Filipino-American War • Emilio Aguinaldo • Insular Cases (1901) • Balangiga • Gen. Jacob Smith

  8. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • Creating a New American Foreign Policy • Teddy Roosevelt and Big-Stick Diplomacy in Latin America • Panama and the Canal Zone • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

  9. Haitian Occupation: 1915-1934

  10. James Weldon Johnson Warren G. Harding

  11. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD • William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy • Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy

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