The United States expanding outside of it’s borders

After several decades of tremendous economic expansion, the U.S. has become one of the

world’s leading agricultural and industrial nations. This economic muscle helped allow

America to successfully engage in overseas expansion. Joshua Wieczerzak

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U n i t e d S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a & C u b a R e l a t i o n s

✌Americans had heavily invested in Cuban Sugar

Plantations

✌By 1897, trade with Cuba reached $27 million per year

✌Americans had noted the important strategic location

of the island

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Theodore Roosevelt

✾Leader of Rough Riders

✾Assistant Secretary of the Navy

✾Gave advice towards President McKinley

about enlarging the navy and ousting

Spain from Cuba

William Seward

Ambitious imperialistic Secretary of State who was responsible for

purchasing Alaska from Russia

He was significant because of his aggressive tactics which entered

America into an imperialistic age

Crucial People who took place U.S. Imperialism

Additional Important People

General “Butcher”

Weyler

Led 50,000 troops into

Cuba

Herded Cuban citizens

into “reconcentration

camps”

William McKinley

Very peaceful and not eager to

take actions that make hurt the

economy’s recovery from the

depression

Very cautious towards asking

Congress for a call for war

Strong patriotism for American

Imperialism

CALIFORNIA

ARIZONA

TEXAS

Pennsylvania

NORK

and

Virginia

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ILLINOIS

Map of Cuba

USA – For & Against Imperalism

Republican Senator George F. Hoar

“Assailing about the United States for its

war against the Filipinos, declared that

intervention in Cuba would be the most

honorable single war in all history,

undertaken without the slightest thought

or desire of foreign conquest or of

national gain or advantage.”

Republican Senator Lodge

“If war in Cuba drags on through

the summer with nothing done,

we shall go down to the greatest

defeat ever.”