1. The American Pageant Chapter 27 Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
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The American Pageant
Chapter 27
Empire and Expansion,
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4. CAUSES OF IMPERIALISM How many can you identify?
Growth (economy, population, industry)
Steel Navy
Colonial expansion of European powers
Missionary zeal
Darwinism
Which was most significant?

5. SIGNS/SYMPTOMS of IMPERIALISM
“Big Sister” Policy with Latin America
“Near-Wars” 0f late 1880’s and 1890’s
Germany, Italy, Russia, Chile, Britain
Aggressive application of Monroe Doctrine
Coup de’etat in Hawaii
Yellow Journalism and the Maine explosion

8. Why did McKinley call for war with Spain?
Popular
Business interests
Spanish “despotism”
Maine incident
Yellow Press/jingoism

9. What was the purpose of the Teller Amendment?
Assure Cubans and European powers that American intervention was not an “imperial” land grab.
stated that the United States "hereby disclaims any disposition of intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people."
Was it observed?

10. Spanish-American War
Who had the advantage at the beginning of the war?
Spain had more soldiers and a bigger navy
How did the Philippines become involved?
UNDERSecretary Teddy Roosevelt ordered Commodore Dewey to attack Manila
What is the Hawaii connection to the war?
Annexed during the war to provide base in Pacific

11. Who are the Rough Riders?
regiment of American volunteers , including cowboys, polo players, ex-convicts…and Teddy Roosevelt
Why are they historically significant?

12. “Rough Riders” http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/img/grprord.jpg

13. OUTCOMES
400 US combat deaths, deaths from disease (60,000 Spanish casualties)
Treaty of Paris:
-Cuba “freed”
-Guam and Puerto Rico are US possessions
-Philippines purchased for $20 million
Platt Amendment
Increase in American prestige abroad

14. Platt Amendment What was the purpose of the Platt Amendment?
February 1901.
It allowed the United States "the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty..."

15. PHILIPPINES RESIST EMPIRE
How was the Philippines different from Cuba?
Emilio Aguinaldo
Guerilla war
Reconcentration camps
Atrocities
Americanization
CASUALTY FIGURES:
U.S.-- 4,234 dead and 2,818 wounded.
“20,000 military dead and 200,000 civilian dead. (approximate numbers). Some historians place the numbers of civilian dead at 500,000 or higher.” medalofhonor.com

16. US IN CHINA Did the Open Door policy work? Ignored by Great Powers
Boxer Rebellion
US now entangled in China

17. MOTIVATING IDEAS OF IMPERIALISM
NATIONAL HONOR
COMMERCE
RACIAL SUPERIORITY
ALTRUISM
“And one night it came to me this way-I don’t know how it was, but it came: (1) that we could not give them back to Spain – that would be cowardly and dishonorable; (2) that we could not turn them over to France or Germany-our commercial rivals in the Orient that would be bad business and discreditable; (3) that we could not leave them to themselves – the were unfit for self-government and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was; and (4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate they Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died. And then I went to bed, and went to sleep and slept soundly.”
-President McKinley; reflecting on what to do with the Philippines after the Spanish American war.

18. ELECTION OF 1900 Why is the election of 1900 historically significant?
NOT because McKinley is re-elected.
-US embraces imperialism, gold standard and prosperity)
-Bryanism/Populism is in continuing decline
BECAUSE Teddy Roosevelt is “kicked upstairs”

19. Roosevelt and Imperialism (= America takes an ACTIVIST approach to foreign policy)
What were Roosevelt’s major acts of foreign policy?
Panama “revolution” from Colombia Nov. 1903
US Navy supports the “revolution”
Panama Canal built ( , $400 million)
US granted Canal Zone (10 mile strip)
“Big Stick” Diplomacy or “Cowboy diplomacy?”

20. Map: The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal could take advantage of some natural waterways. The most difficult part of the construction, however, was devising some way to move ships over the mountains near the Pacific end of the canal (lower right). This was done through a combination of cutting a route through the mountains and constructing massive locks.
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23. “Big Sister” becomes “Big Brother”
Why were Latin American countries nervous of TR?
Santo Domingo
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary (preventive intervention)
a Dominican Republic
b – Cuba

25. Roosevelt the…. Diplomat?
1904 – Sino-Russian War
1906 – TR mediates between Japan and Russia
TR forces Russia and Japan to compromise
EFFECT:
TR wins Nobel Peace Prize, sours relations with BOTH Russia and Japan.

26. Bandana celebrating Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel Prize
This souvenir bandana commemorated Theodore Roosevelt's mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in The heart-shaped ribbon around Roosevelt's portrait contains the legend, "First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of His Countrymen," a tribute first applied to George Washington. That statement explains why Roosevelt's war exploits (at the top) were linked with his peacemaking. (Collection of Janice L. and David J. Frent)
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27. Which writer/thinker urged the formation of a modern steel navy and a network of island bases?
Which amendment pledged that the US would give Cuba its independence?
Who led the resistance to US rule in the Philippines?
What is one of the nicknames for the Roosevelt Corollary?
Pres. Roosevelt encouraged a revolution in Panama from what country?