1. IMPERIAL REPUBLIC
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
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2. “New Manifest Destiny”

3. GUIDING QUESTION
To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past U. S. expansionism and to what extent was it a departure?
(1994 DBQ)
 Ideals vs. interests?

4. Arguments for Overseas Expansion
1. Economic – new markets
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U.S. Foreign Investments,

5. Arguments for Overseas Expansion
2. National Power
New Manifest Destiny?
Keep up with European Powers
social darwinism
3. Military – naval bases
Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History, (1890)

6. Arguments for Overseas Expansion
4. Spread of “Civilization”
Religion
American Missionaries in China, 1905

7. Arguments for Overseas Expansion
5. Maintain American “Frontier” Spirit
Outlet for discontented people of 1890s
Historian Frederick Jackson Turner - Chicago World’s Fair (1893)

8. Early Expansion Efforts
Alaska
“Seward’s Folly” ($7.2M)
Pojer; (map) Divine America Past and Present Revised 7th Ed.
Why?

9. Early Expansion Efforts
Hawaiian Islands
Queen Liliuokalani
revolution, 1893
annexation, 1898

10. SPANISH-AMERICAN* WAR
*-Cuban-Filipino
1898

11. Causes of the Spanish-American War
Cuban Rebellion
“Butcher Weyler”
Sugar plantations
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12. Causes of the Spanish-American War
Yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”
Hearst to Frederic Remington, 1897
American journey Online
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Updating the Crowds about Cuba

13. Causes of the Spanish-American War
“Jingoism”
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy

14. Causes of the Spanish-American War
De Lômè letter
“Remember the Maine”
Cruiser Maine in Havana Harbor
Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine. Description: Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine, Keywords: Spanish-American War Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Maine in Havana Harbor: PBS Spanish American War
Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine

15. The Spanish-American War in the Philippines
Commodore Dewey
Battle of Manila Bay
Martin A Nation and Its Peoples 5e

16. The Spanish-American War in Cuba
Rough Riders
“A splendid little war”
Treaty of Paris, 1899
Map: Martin America and Its Peoples 5e

17. American Empire, 1900
Divine America Past and Present Revised 7th Ed.

18. AMERICA’S NEW ROLE
Power vs. Ideals????

19. The Philippines Philippine-American War (1899-1902) Emilio Aguinaldo
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Emilio Aguinaldo
William Howard Taft

20. American Anti-Imperialist League
Founded in 1898
Among its members:
Mark Twain (VP), Andrew Carnegie, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Jane Addams
Campaigned against the annexation of the Philippines and other acts of imperialism
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21. Cuban Independence? Platt Amendment (1903)
Cuba was not to enter in to any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence or grant military bases
The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent government
Cuba would lease to the U.S. naval and coaling stations (Guantanamo Bay)
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22. China Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Description: Chinese "Boxer." Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
Description: "Within historic grounds of the Forbidden City in Pekin, China, on November 28 celebrated the victory of the Allies." Ca Credit: National Archives and Records Administration;

23. China: Open Door Policy
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24. Panama Canal
Pathways

25. Panama Canal Panamanian Rebellion – U.S. Role U.S. & Latin America
Wadsworth.com

26. Intervention in Latin America
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905)
“Dollar Diplomacy”
Pancho Villa
(map); picture: wadsworth.com

27. US Interventions in Latin America 1898-1934
Pathways