Rebellion & Resistance

Meet The New Boss

• Cuba, 1900, still occupied by US Forces. Native Cubans try and write a constitution for Independent Cuba.

• US says no, Cubans have to add the Platt Amendment. Giving US the right to intervene in Cuba, forbidding Cuba from going into Debt, allowing US to buy Naval Stations.

• Cubans, angry, accept.

Same as the Old Boss

• The US Annexes the Philippines Directly. • Pilipino Rebel Leader Emilio Aguinaldo Says:

“Not Cool Man!” Starts Rebellion.• US Sends Troops to Suppress, puts Pilipino in

concentration camps.• Massacres happen on both sides

Uplifting

• US wins the main war in the Philippines in 1902. Small rebellions continue until 1913.

• President McKinley had said in 1899: “that we not leave them to themselves — they are unfit for self-government… there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them.”

• The War Costs US 400,000,000$

Still Under Control

• US Military Occupied Puerto Rico a la Cuba.• Protests• Civil Government returns 1901, Annexed by

US.• Insular Cases: US Constitution Doesn’t fully

apply to captured territories.• US Citizenship granted to Puerto Ricans in

1917.

Saying No

• Many Americans didn’t like Imperialism.• American Anti-Imperialism League Formed,

contains members such as former pres Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie & union leader Samuel Gompers.

• McKinley wins re-election against anti Imperialist William Jennings Bryant, 1900.

A New Face

• McKinley, during the Election of 1900, Picks a new VP, the Hero of San Juan Hill, Theodore Roosevelt, who is all of 42.

• A New Era is about to begin.