1. Commercial/Business Interests

U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908

Flashback Circa 17th Century

American Foreign Trade:

1870-1914

1. Commercial/Business Interests

2. Military/Strategic Interests

Alfred T. Mahan The Influence of Sea Power on History: 1660-1783

3. Social Darwinist Thinking

The White Man’sBurdenThe Hierarchy

of Race

4. Religious/Missionary Interests

American Missionaries

in China, 1905

Foreshadowing

• Keep this in mind.• Why was it important to convert these

“heathens” to Christianity?

• Who is behind this push for Christianity?

• We will see this again throughout the 20th Century.

5. Closing the American Frontier

18th Century Western ExpansionEarly

The Oregon Trail 1843Mid

Transcontinental RailroadLAND GRANTS

Late Exodusters (Freed Slaves)Yukon Gold Rush

U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii

Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s

U. S. View of Hawaiians

Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in 1849

by virtue of economic treaties.

Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani

Hawaii for the Hawaiians!

U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii

1875 – Reciprocity Treaty1890 – McKinley Tariff1893 – Americanbusinessmen backed anuprising against Queen Liliuokalani.??????????????????proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.

To The Victor Belongs the Spoils

Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898

Hawaii Economy• Sugar and pineapple

plantations.• Lanai (island) became

known as Pineapple island when James DOLE helped it become the world’s leading exporter of pineapple.

Sugar Cane

Dole Pineapple Plantation

The Imperialist Tailor

Spanish Misrule in Cuba

Gen. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

Cuba-????????????Removed Cuban civilians to concentration camps.

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Helped propel US into Spanish American War 1898

“Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism

Joseph Pulitzer

William Randolph Hearst

Hearst to Frederick Remington: You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war!

Yellow Journalism

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• Uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers.

• Seen today as unprofessional and/or unethical.

Jingoism

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De Lôme LetterDupuy de Lôme, SpanishAmbassador to the U.S.Criticized PresidentMcKinley as weak and abidder for the admirationof the crowd, besidesbeing a would-be politicianwho tries to leave a dooropen behind himself whilekeeping on good termswith the jingoes of hisparty.

Theodore RooseveltAssistant Secretary of the Navy in the McKinley administration.Imperialist and American nationalist.Criticized PresidentMcKinley as having the backbone of a chocolate éclair!Resigns his position to fight in Cuba.

The “Rough Riders”

Remember the Maineand to Hell with Spain!

Funeral for Maine victims in Havana

The Spanish-American War (1898):

“That Splendid Little War”

How prepared was the US for war?

USS Olympia

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The Spanish-American War (1898):

“That Splendid Little War”

Dewey Captures Manila!

Is He To Be a Despot?

Emilio Aguinaldo

Leader of the FilipinoUprising.

July 4, 1946:Philippine independence

William H. Taft, 1stGov.-General of the Philippines

Great administrator.

Our “Sphere of Influence”

The Treaty of Paris: 1898

Cuba was ????????????Spain gave up Puerto Rico and the island ofGuam.The U. S. paid Spain$20 mil. for thePhilippines.The U. S. becomesan ??????????????

The American Anti-Imperialist

LeagueFounded in 1899.Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, WilliamJames, and WilliamJennings Bryan amongthe leaders.Campaigned against the ????????.

Teller Amendment (1898)

Platt Amendment (1903)1. Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with

foreign powers that would endanger its independence.

2. The U.S. could ?????????.3. Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for

naval and coaling station.4. Cuba must not build up an excessive public debt.

Cuban Independence?

Senator Orville Platt

Puerto Rico: 18981900 - Foraker Act.

PR became an “unincorporated territory.” Citizens of ???????? Import duties on PR goods

1901-1903 the Insular Cases. Constitutional rights were?????????? Congress had the power to decide these rights. Import duties laid down by the Foraker Act were legal!

Puerto Rico: 18981917 – Jones Act.

Gave full territorial status to PR.

Removed tariff duties on PR goods coming into the US.

PRs elected theirown legislators &governor to enforcelocal laws.

PRs could ???? A resident commissioner was

sent to Washington to vote for PR in the House.