Post on 29-Dec-2015
Imperialism
-Policy of taking colonies for economic interests
-other world powers were building empires
-U.S. also needed new markets for our products
Imperialism
-Policy of taking colonies for economic interests
-other world powers were building empires
-U.S. also needed new markets for our products
Imperialism
-Policy of taking colonies for economic interests
-other world powers were building empires
p.557, 560
-U.S. also needed new markets for our products
Building an Empire
-Alaska, 1867
Seward’s Folly
Purchased from Russia
-Hawaii, 1898
overthrew the Queen of Hawaii
http://youtu.be/XpsmUCtsd2o
-Alfred Mahan
“Influence of Sea Power upon History”
discussed need for strong Navy
Spanish-American
-Spanish rule of Cuba
-Spanish ruled harshly
-yellow journalism
Hearst and Pulitzer: Pro-Expansion…. Wrote articles in favor of US Imperialism
-De Lome letter
-U.S. sends ship to observe
-USS Maine explodes in Havana
-”Remember the Maine”
Spanish-American
-Spanish rule of Cuba
-Spanish ruled harshly
-yellow journalism
-De Lome letter
Criticizes the US President
…DeLome is the Spanish Ambassador to the US
-U.S. sends ship to observe
-USS Maine explodes in Havana
-”Remember the Maine”
Spanish-American
-Spanish rule of Cuba
-Spanish ruled harshly
-yellow journalism
-De Lome letter
-U.S. sends ship to observe
-USS Maine explodes in Havana
-”Remember the Maine”
Spanish-American
-Spanish rule of Cuba
-Spanish ruled harshly
-yellow journalism
-De Lome letter
-U.S. sends ship to observe
-USS Maine explodes in Havana
-”Remember the Maine”
Spanish-American
-Spanish rule of Cuba
-Spanish ruled harshly
-yellow journalism
-De Lome letter
-U.S. sends ship to observe
-USS Maine explodes in Havana
-”Remember the Maine”
Philippines
-U.S. attacks Spanish colony when war starts
-George Dewey captures the islands
-Why did we capture the Philippines???
-Imperialistic Foreign Policy
-Anti-Imperialistic Feelings
-Anti-Imperialist League
-Andrew Carnegie
1898 US Political Cartoon. the Philippines, depicted as a savage child, as the world looks on. The implied options for McKinley are to keep the Philippines, or give it back to Spain, which the cartoon compares to throwing a child off a cliff.
Fighting in Cuba
-Cuba will be independent
-Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
San Juan Hill
-”Splendid Little War”
Cuba is free
Puerto Rico is part of U.S.
U.S. buys Philippines