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The Spanish-American War: America Enters the World Stage
STANDARDS ADDRESSED
Why significant events, policies, and individuals, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Sanford B. Dole, and missionaries moved the United States into the position of a world power. (Readiness)
Evaluate American expansionism, including acquisitions such as Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico (Supporting)
The End of the Frontier
Frederick Jackson Turner
As a result of the 1890 census, no longer a discernible “frontier.
Historian Fredrick Jackson Turner used this as basis of “Frontier Thesis” in an 1893 paper.
Panic of 1893Worst industrial depression up to that point
President Grover Cleveland
America and the Pacific
Sanford B. Dole
Economic interests predate the Civil War
Missionary impulse in Pacific and Asia
Trade
The Hawaiian Revolt, 1893
Overthrow of Queen Lili’oukalani
Petition for annexation to United States
Opposed by Cleveland
The United States and the Pacific to 1898
Global Rivalries—the Age of the “New Imperialism”
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt and the emergence of the so-called “Large Policy”
The United States should compete with the rest of the industrial powers
All the great masterful races have been fighting races, and the minute that a race loses the hard fighting virtues, then, no matter what else it may retain, no matter how skilled in commerce and finance, in science or art, it has lost its proud right to stand as the equal of the best. Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the NavyNaval War College Address, 1897
Cuban Revolt beginning in 1895
JoséMarti
“Yellow Journalism”
William Randolph HearstOwner and editor New York Journal
Joseph PulitzerOwner and editor New York World
As if designed for sensationalism
Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau
A LEAP TO
ARMS
….a splendid little war.
John Hay, 1898