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Imperialism The U.S. and the World at the turn of the 20 th Century

Imperialism The U.S. and the World at the turn of the 20 th Century

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Imperialism The U.S. and the World at the turn of the 20 th Century. Motives :. Economic Strategic Colonizing Aggressive Missionary Leadership. The U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia in 1867. Alaska becomes the 49 th U.S. state in 1959. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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ImperialismThe U.S. and the Worldat the turn of the 20th

Century

Motives:

• Economic• Strategic• Colonizing• Aggressive• Missionary• Leadership

The U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia in 1867

Alaska becomes the 49th U.S. state in 1959

U.S. Sec. of State William Seward was widely criticized for the purchase of Alaska

The 1896 election of William McKinley

Rep. President William McKinley

Spanish-American War 1898“A Splendid Little War”

Causes of the Spanish American War

• Jingoism• Economic concerns in Cuba• Yellow Journalism• The DeLome Letter• The Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine• The “White man’s

burden”/Humanitarian concerns for the Cubans

The Teller Amendment 1898proposed by Colorado Sen. Henry

Teller promises that the U.S. has no designs on annexing Cuba

General Valeriano “butcher” Weyler’s “reconcentration” policyexcited many Americans against

Spain

U.S.S. Maine

The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba

Feb. 15th, 1898

“Remember the Maine and to hell with Spain””

“Yellow Journalism”Publishers William Randolph Hearst

and Joseph Pulitzer

William Randolph Hearst-The New York Journal

Joseph Pulitzer-The New York World

Hearst Castle San Simeon

Spanish Foreign Minister Enrique DeLome

TR the Rough Rider

Heroics at San Juan Hill?

U. S. Admiral George Dewey

U.S.S. OlympiaFlagship of Commodore Dewey

Commodore Dewey promoted to Admiral

U.S. defeat of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay, the Philippines

The Platt Amendment 1903Connecticut Rep. Sen. Orville Platt

• Cuba was an independent nation• The U.S. reserved the right to

intervene in Cuban affairs if deemed necessary

• Cuba had limited rights to conduct foreign and debt policies, subject to U.S. approval

• The U.S. would maintain a military base on Cuba at Guantanamo Bay

The U.S. acquires Puerto Rico and Guam via the Treaty of Paris 1898

• The Foraker Act (1900) establishes civil government in Puerto Rico

• Organizes the island as a U.S. Territory• Makes its residents citizens of Puerto

Rico• U.S. citizenship comes in 1917 (“does

the Constitution follow the flag?” Insular Cases as decided by the Supreme Court said not automatically

The dilemma of the Philippine Islands

U.S. President William McKinley and Filipino Nationalist Emilio Aguinaldo

The U.S. –Filipino War

Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani

Queen “Lil” overthrown by U.S. planters in 1893

Hawaii made a U.S. Territory in 1898 and becomes the 50th state in 1959

U.S. Sec. of State John Hay and his “Open Door Policy” in China

The Boxer Rebellion

The Assassination of President William McKinley

Presidential assassin Leon Czolgosz

President Theodore Roosevelt

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

The “Big Stick” Policy

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

The Great White Fleet

Alfred Thayer Mahan“The Influence of Sea Power

Upon History”

• Hay-Buanau-Varilla Treaty 1903 w/ Panama The U.S. Under T.R. would recognize Panama as an independent country from Columbia in exchange the right to build a canal.

The Panama Canal construction 1904-1914

“I took the Canal Zone, and let Congress debate”

Reelection of TR in 1904

TR as Nobel Peace Prize recipient for mediation of the Russo-Japanese

War

Portsmouth Treaty

1908 Election of William Howard Taft

“Dollar Diplomacy” of William Howard Taft

Promotion of American financial and business interests abroad.

The policy had profit seeking motives, but it also aimed to substitute economic ties for military alliances with the idea of increasing American influence and bringing lasting peace.

TR runs as a “third party” candidate from the Progressive or “Bull Moose” party in

1912The result is a split within the Republican party partially allowing for the Democrat

Woodrow Wilson to win

Woodrow Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”

Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”• “The force of America is the force of moral

principle.” Designed to bring right to the world , preserve peace and extend to other peoples the blessings of democracy.

U.S. concerns in Mexico

Imperialism sets the stage for the background events of

WWI