1. “CUBA-LIBRE”

3.  MONROE DOCTRINE  ROOSEVELT COROLLARY  OPEN DOOR POLICY  BIG STICK DIPLOMACY

4. Proclamation in 1823 by President James Monroe. Basically, it warned European nations not to get involved in political matters in Central and South America. The Doctrine was intended to show that the United States was the only country that could influence such political matters. Further, several countries in South American had recently undergone revolutions against their European colonial owners and ended up with republican governments. The United States agreed with their political philosophy and did not want to see those newly free nations become European colonies again. SOURCE: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/monroedoctrinedef. htm

5.  In what came to be known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt asserted that European nations should not intervene in countries to the south of the US, however under certain conditions, United States intervention might be justified. SOURCE: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/rooseveltcorollary.htm

6.  UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS CHINA INITIATED BY SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN HAY IN 1899  STATES THAT ALL COUNTRIES SHOULD HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO ANY CHINESE PORT FOR TRADE  DONE TO PROTECT/ENHANCE OUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE

7.  “SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK”  THE SLOGAN ROOSEVELT USED TO BACK HIS FOREIGN POLICY BASED ON MONROE DOCTRINE/ ROOSEVELT COROLLARY

11.  SPANISH IMPERIALISM  90 MILES FLORIDA-CUBA  U.S. SUPPORTS CUBAN INDEPENDENCE  YELLOW JOURNALISM (SENSATIONALISM) PLAYED INTO WAR  PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY HEATED UP SITUATION BY SENDING U.S. BATTLESHIP U.S.S. MAINE TO HAVANA HARBOR  DeLome LETTER INTERCEPTED CALLING MCKINLEY “WEAK AND A BIDDER FOR THE ADMIRATION OF THE CROWD, BESIDES BEING A WOULD-E POLITICIAN…

12.  USS MAINE EXPLOSION “REMEMBER THE MAINE, TO HELL WITH SPAIN!”  SECRETARY OF NAVY THEODORE ROOSEVELT: MCKINLEY “WHITE-LIVERED…NO MORE BACKBONE THAN A CHOCOLATE ÉCLAIR” – U.S.S. MAINE INCIDENT “AN ACT OF DIRTY TREACHERY ON THE PARTY OF THE SPANIARDS” –U.S. “NEEDS A WAR”  WAR LASTED 114 DAYS (NEARLY 4 MONTHS)  “A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR” –SEC. OF STATE JOHN HAY  MARKED BEGINNING OF U.S. AS WORLD POWER  U.S. NAVY UNDER COMMODORE GEORGE DEWEY SEIZED SPANISH-CONTROLLED PHILIPPINES

13.  EMILIO AGUINALDO- FILIPINO GENERAL, POLITICIAN, LEADER FOR INDEPENDENCE  U.S. GOVT. CAPTURED; FORCED TO SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO U.S. BY GUNPOINT

14. FORMED 1899  ANDREW CARNEGIE  SAMUEL GOMPERS (AFL)  PRESIDENTS OF HARVARD/STANFORD  JANE ADDAMS (HULL HOUSE)  MARK TWAIN “ I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” --MARK TWAIN, 1900

16.  MOTIVATING IDEAS  NATIONAL GLORY  COMMERCE (BUSINESS)  RACIAL SUPERIORITY  ALTRUISM (SELFLESS REGARD FOR THE WELL-BEING OF OTHERS)  SELF-PRESERVATION