America Becomes a Colonial Power
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America Becomes a Colonial Power. Essential Question : Why did America join the imperialist club at the end of the 19c?. 1. Commercial/Business Interests. U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908. Flashback Circa 17 th Century. 1. Commercial/Business Interests. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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.
