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1. Imperialism Susan M. Pojer and Lynne Pierce
2. Who was doing it?
3. Why would a nation want to practice imperialism?
4. Commercial/Business Interests US Foreign Trade:1870-1914
5. 2. Military/Strategic Interests US maintains bases in other countries
6. Alfred Thayer Mahan The Influence of Sea Power Upon History Great nations have great navies Navies need safe ports to receive supplies and rest
7. 3. Social Darwinist Thinking The Hierarchyof Race The White Man’sBurden
8. 4. Religious/Missionary Interests Mission Church in Hawaii American Missionariesin China, 1905
9. 5. The frontier theory
10. 6. Jingoism – nationalism out of control
11. Japan
12. Commodore Matthew Perry Opens Up Japan: 1853 The Japanese View of Commodore Perry US forces Japan to open to world trade
13. Alaska
14. “Seward’s Folly” or “Icebox: 1867 $7.2 million
15. America as a Pacific Power
16. Other Pacific claims Baker Island Howland Island Christmas Island Palmyra Island Jarvis Island Wake Island
17. Hawaii: "Crossroads of the Pacific"
18. U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii Kamehameha III – 1st Christian Hawaiian king Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s
19. Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii for the Hawaiians!
20. U. S. View of Hawaiians Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in 1849through economic treaties.
21. U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii 1893 –Americanbusinessmen backed anuprising against Queen Liliuokalani. Sanford Ballard Doleproclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894. Hawaii annexed in 1898
22. A shot gun wedding for Hawaii
23. Cuba The US had wanted to take it for years
24. Spanish Misrule in Cuba
25. “Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism Joseph Pulitzer Hearst to Frederic Remington:You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war! William Randolph Hearst
26. ValerianoWeyler’s“Reconcentration” Policy
27. De Lôme Letter Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. Criticized PresidentMcKinley as weak, cowardly and incapable of leading the US
28. Remember the Maineand to Hell with Spain!
29. Theodore Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy under McKinley Criticized PresidentMcKinley as having the backbone of a chocolate éclair! Resigns his position to fight in Cuba
30. Spanish-American War 1898 “That splendid little war”
31. The Spanish-American War (1898): US rifle Spanish rifle How prepared was the US for war?
32. The “Rough Riders”
33. Heroes of San Juan Hill?? By Fredric Remington By Kurz and Allison
34. The Philippines
35. The Spanish-American War (1898):“That Splendid Little War”
36. Dewey Captures Manila!
37. Emilio Aguinaldo Leader of the FilipinoUprising. July 4, 1946:Philippine independence
38. William H. Taft, 1stGov-General of the Philippines Great administrator.
39. American Views of the Philippines
40. Philippine Insurrection
41. The Treaty of Paris: 1898 Cuba was freed from Spanish rule. Spain gave up Puerto Rico and the island of Guam. The U. S. paid Spain$20 mil. for thePhilippines. The U. S. becomesan imperial power!
42. The American Anti-Imperialist League Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie,and WilliamJennings Bryan amongthe leaders. Campaigned against the annexation of thePhilippines and otheracts of imperialism.
43. Our “Sphere of Influence”
44. Cuban Independence? Platt Amendment (1903) Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence. The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent govt. (protectorate) Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for naval and coaling station. Senator Orville Platt
45. DILEMMA--Did U. S. citizenship follow the flag??
46. Puerto Rico
47. Puerto Rico: 1898 1900 PR became an “unincorporated territory.” Citizens of PR, not of the US. 1901-1903  the Insular Cases. Constitutional rights were not automatically extended to territorial possessions. Congress had the power to decide these rights.
48. Puerto Rico: 1898 1917 – Gave full territorial status to PR. (commonwealth) PRs elects their own legislators & governor to enforce local laws. PRs can NOT vote in US presidential elections. A resident commissioner is sent to Washington to vote for PR in the House.
49. The Imperialist Tailor
50. Spreading the flag
51. Uncle Sam Joins the Club
52. China
53. China divided by the outsidersWhere are the Americans? Spheres of influence – area where another country has political & economic control
54. The Open Door Policy - 1899 Gave all nations equal access to trade in China Guaranteed that China would NOT be taken over by any one foreign power
55. TheOpen Door Policy
56. The Boxer Rebellion:1900
57. America as a Pacific Power Area of US involvement
58. America as a Carib-bean Power
59. U. S. Interventions in Latin America: 1898-1920s
60. Big Stick Diplomacy US prevents intervention in Venezuela
61. Panama
62. Panama: The King’s Crown 1903  Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Dr. Walter Reed – yellow fever cure
63. Revolt in PanamaCould this be why Columbia is willing to sell us drugs?
64. Making the dirt fly
65. Panama Canal TR in Panama(Construction begins in 1904)
66. Extending the Monroe Doctrine
67. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: 1905 Chronic wrongdoing… may …ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, …to the exercise of an international police power .
68. US Virgin Islands purchased to guard the canal
69. Speak Softly,But Carry a Big Stick!
70. America's New Role
71. The Cares of a Growing Family
72. Constable of the World
73. An emerging power
74. Treaty of Portsmouth: 1905 Nobel Peace Prize for Teddy
75. The Great White Fleet: 1907
76. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy” Improve financialopportunities for American businesses. Use private capital tofurther U. S. interestsoverseas. Use troops to enforce our position if necessary
77. Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy” The U. S. shouldbe the conscienceof the world. Spread democracy. Promote peace. Condemn colonialism.
78. Mexico
79. The Mexican Revolution: 1910s Emiliano Zapata Mexico was torn for years by fighting among factions who want to control the country Venustiano Carranza Argentina Brazil Chile Powers Porfirio Diaz Francisco I Madero
80. Searching for Banditos General John J. Pershing with PanchoVilla in 1914.
81. Uncle Sam: One of the “Boys?”
82. The look of US imperialism today