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AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD01 APRIL 2014

10.3 ACQUIRING NEW LANDS

AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD`S NOTES01 APRIL 2014

KEY IDEA

IN THE EARLY 1900S, THE UNITED STATES ENGAGED IN CONFLICTS IN

PUERTO RICO, CUBA AND TE PHILLIPPINES.

WHY IT MATTERS NOW

TODAY, THE UNITED STATES MAINAINS A STRONG MILITARY AND POLITICAL

PRESENCE IN STRATEGIC WORLDWIDE LOCATIONS.

INTRODUCTION

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

“A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR”

ONLY 16 WEEKS LONG

CUBA WAS FREE FROM

SPAIN

USA RECEIVED GUAM

AND PUERTO RICO

AND PURCHASED

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

USA! USA! USA! USA!

OBJECTIVE 1DESCRIBE US

INVOLVEMENT IN PUERTO RICO

AND CUBA

PUERTO RICO

PUERTO RICO

CONTROLLED BY U.S. MILITARY

PUERTO RICO HAD A STRATEGIC

LOCATION

SOME PUERTO RICANS WANTED

INDEPENDENCE

OTHERS PREFERRED SELF-GOVERNMENT

AS AMERICAN TERRITORY

U.S. FORAKER ACT

ENDED MILITARY RULE

ENDED MILITARY RULE AND ESTABLISHED

GOVERNMENT

USA APPOINTED PUERTO RICAN

GOVERNOR

PUERTO RICANS LATER BECAME U.S.

CITIZENS

CUBA

USA RECOGNIZED CUBA´S INDEPENDENCE FROM

SPAIN

U.S. SIGNED TELLER AMENDMENT

AGREEMENT NOT TO TAKE

CUBA

CUBA OFFICIALLY

INDEPENDENT BUT OCCUPIED BY USA

AMERICAN MILITARY HELPED

FAMILIES

IMPROVED

EDUCATION AND SANITATION

BUT JOSE MARTI FEARED NOTHING HAD

CHANGED

CUBA WROTE C O N S T

I T U T I O N

U.S.A. ADDED PLATT A M E N D

M E N T

PERMITTED U.S. I N T E R V E N

T I O N

U.S. COULD BUY OR LEASE LAND FOR NAVAL

BASES

U.S.A. FORCED CUBA

TO SIGN

U.S.A. WAS CUBA`S

P R O T E C T O R A T E

A COUNTRY WHO`S AFFAIRS ARE CONTROLLED BY STRONGER

NATION

THEY U.S.A. WANTED TO PROTECT OWN

INTERESTS

OBJECTIVE 2IDENTIFY CAUSES AND

EFFECTS OF THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN

WAR

U.S.A. ANNEXED PHILIPPINE

ISLANDS

PHILIPPINES ALSO STRATEGIC

LOCATION

FILIPINOS OUTRAGED

PHILIPPINES WOULD FIGHT FOR

FREEDOM

U.S. RULE NO

DIFFERENT FROM SPAIN

FILLIPINOS TURNED TO GUERRILLA

WARFARE

U.S. FORCED FILIPINOS

INTO DESIGNATED ZONES

DISEASE + STARVATION

SAME TACTICS U.S.A. HAD CONDEMNED

MOST U.S. SOLDIERS WERE AFRICAN-

AMERICANS

AFRICAN-AMERICANS

DEFECTED TO FILIPINOS SIDE

TOOK U.S. 3 YEARS TO DEFEAT PHILIPPINES

4000 DEATHS AND $400

MILLION

COST 20 TIMES MORE THAN THEY

HAD PAID

U.S. SUPPRESSED REBELLION

U.S. SET UP GOVERNMENT (SIMILAR

TO PUERTO RICO)

PUERTO RICO INDEPENDENCE

1946

OBJECTIVE 3EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE

OF THE OPEN DOOR POLICY IN CHINA

PHILIPPINES VIEWED AS GATEWAY

TO CHINA

NEW MARKETS

NEW OPPORTUNITIES

US FEARED CHINA WOULD BECOME EUROPEAN

COLONIES

U.S.A. DIDN`T WANT

TO BE LEFT OUT

US ISSUED OPEN DOOR

NOTES

NO SINGLE NATION COULD HAVE A

MONOPOLY

OTHER IMPERIALIST NATIONS ACCEPTED

RELUCTANTLY

CHINA KEPT FREEDOM BUT WAS

DOMINATED

CHINESE REBELLED INCLUDING

BOXER REBELLIONS

EUROPEAN NATIONS PUT DOWN

REBELLION

NOW EUROPEAN NATIONS WANTED GREATER CONTROL

US ISSUED MORE OPEN DOOR

NOTES

DECLARED THE U.S. HAD A RIGHT TO

INTERVENE

OBJECTIVE 4SUMMARIZE THE

VIEWS REGARDING U.S. IMPERIALISM

PRO-IMPERIALIST CANDIDATE V ANTI-

IMPERIALIST CANDIDATE

US VOTED FOR IMPERIALIST

PRESIDENT

SHOWED US WAS BEHIND IMPERIALISM

ALTHOUGH ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEAGUE

WAS FORMED

U.S. WOULD CONTINUE TO EXERT POWER AROUND

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