SSUSH14: Explain America’s evolving relationship with the world at the turn of the twentieth century

a: Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and anti-Asian immigration sentiment on the west coast Even though many in the United States saw the Southeast Asian markets as great opportunity, they wanted to limit those from immigrating to the US Chinese immigrants would live in places like San Francisco and work for cheaper than Americans would To stop this, the government placed a 10 year ban on Chinese immigrants in 1882, and eventually extended that ban to until 1943

b: Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate over American expansionism Before the 1900s, Cuba was still under Spanish control—Cubans would try to rebel, but Spain sent 150,000 troops to “restore order” As the Spanish put Cubans into concentration camps, pressure was put on America to intervene Newspapers used “yellow journalism” to try to exaggerate what was going on to get Americans on board with an attack on Spanish in Cuba

b: Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate over American expansionism (cont) On Feb 15, 1898, the Spanish-American war officially began as a U.S. Battleship USS Maine exploded while docked in a Cuban harbor. Future president, Theodore Roosevelt, was the Secretary of the Navy and led a group titled the Rough Riders and was victorious in defeating the Spanish At the same time, US Commodore George Dewey attacked and seized control of another Spanish colony, the Philippines

b: Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate over American expansionism (cont) Many understood freeing Cuba from Spain because of its close proximity to the United States but there was also a group who opposed US expansion to the Philippines Anti-Imperialist League was one of the main groups against this because they felt like that taking control of the Philippines could only lead to trouble as it was not close to the US and could only start wars in the Pacific

c: Explain U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the Panama Canal. Following the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became President of the U.S. President Roosevelt envisioned a way to travel the Atlantic and Pacific markets without having to deal with potential conflicts traveling around South America His answer for this was convincing the country of Panama to allow the U.S. to build a canal that allowed U.S. ships to travel between the country

c: Explain U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the Panama Canal (cont) President Roosevelt introduced the Roosevelt Corollary. The corollary expanded on the Monroe Doctrine by preventing large nations using debts to control small countries near the United States This became known as T.R.’s Big Stick Diplomacy based off of a West African Proverb “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick” meaning the United States would not be a threatening presence in the Western Hemisphere, but it would not hesitate to protect its own interests