1. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Expansionism v. Imperialism
Formal v. Informal Empire

2. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
American Foreign Policy Before 1890s
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Why Overseas Involvement in the 1890s
Closing of the internal frontier
Desire to acquire overseas markets
Racial nationalism (“civilizing mission”)
A progressive urge?
Prestige factor
Alfred Thayer Mahan

3. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Spanish-American War: an important break with previous patterns of U.S. expansion
Cuba and the Spanish-American War of 1898
Cuban revolution (“Butcher Weyler”)

4. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine –
February 1898

5. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Teller Amendment
“A splendid little war”

7. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Acquisition of colonies: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
Anti-Imperialist League

9. AMERICA ENTERS THE WOLRD
Platt Amendment and Cuban independence
Filipino-American War
Emilio Aguinaldo
Insular Cases (1901)
Gen. Jacob Smith

10. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Creating a New American Foreign Policy
Teddy Roosevelt and Big-Stick Diplomacy in Latin America
Panama and the Canal Zone
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

16. AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy