Transcript Acquiring New Lands - CCHS

Acquiring New
Lands
Puerto Rico
Strategically importance:
Provide military presence in the Caribbean
Protect the planned canal in Panama
Ruling Puerto Rico
Military Rule
US occupied Puerto Rico
during Spanish-American
War.
• Led by General Nelson A.
Miles
To protect life an
property of
Ruling Puerto Rico
Foraker Act of 1900
Ended military rule
Established a government
Special powers of Foraker Act
• President of US appoints governor
• President of US appoints upper house of the
legislation
Ruling Puerto Rico
What does it mean to live in a territory?
Insular cases of 1901
US Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution did
not apply to in acquired territories
Congress granted citizenship to Puerto Rican
in 1917
Also allowed to elect both houses of legislature
Cuba
Cuba and the United States
American Soldiers
After the war Cuba was occupied by US
troops
Military Government Provided
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food
housing
helped farmers
set up elementary schools
helped fight yellow fever
Cuba and the United States
Jose Marti’s fear:
Spanish control of Cuba
would be replaced by US
control
US Policy
• Same officials remained in
office
• People who protested policy
were imprisoned of exiled.
Cuba and the United States
1900 Cuban government wrote a
constitution for an independent Cuba
Constitution didn’t specify relationship
relationship btw US and Cuba
US insisted Cuba adopt Platt Amendment
• US troops would not leave until they did.
1903 Cuba adopted amendment
Cuba and the United States
Platt Amendment
Cuban could not make treaties that might
limit its independence or permit a foreign
power to control any part of its territory
The US reserved the right to intervene in
Cuba
Cuba was not to go into debt
The US could buy or lease land on the island
for naval stations and refueling station
Filipinos Rebel
Filipinos believed US promised
independence for the Philippines.
Treaty of Paris called for
American annexation of the
Philippines
Filipino rebel leader Emilio
Aguinaldo vowed to fight for
independence.
Filipinos Rebel
Philippine-American War
February 1899 revolt began
• Led by Aguinaldo
Filipinos used guerilla tactics
US forced Filipinos to live in designated
zones
• Poor sanitation, starvation, and disease killed
thousands.
Death toll:
• 20,000 Filipinos
• 4,000 Americans
Filipinos Rebel
Aftermath of the war
US establishes a similar government as PR
Philippines became an independent nation
on July 4, 1946
Foreign Influence in China
John Hay’s Open Door Notes
John Hay: Secretary of State
Letters to imperialist nations
proposing they share trading
rights with the US
• Prevented a nation from having
monopoly trade
Foreign Influence in China
Boxer Rebellion in China
Secret group to rid china of “foreign devils”
Boxers killed hundreds of missionaries and
Chinese converts to Christianity
1900- Troops from imperialist countries
marched on capital and put down the
rebellion
Foreign Influence in China
John Hay’s Open Door Notes part II
Declared that US would safeguard for the
world the principal of equal and impartial
trade with all parts of the Chinese empire.”
Birth of American Foreign
Policy
open door policy reflected three beliefs of US
industrial capitalist economy
growth of economy depended on exports
right to intervene abroad to keep foreign markets
open
closing of an area to American products, citizens, or
ideas threatened US survival