Transcript Dr. Browning`s PowerPoint

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
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.
Frederick Jackson Turner
Panic of 1893
Worst industrial depression up to that point
President Grover Cleveland
America and the Pacific
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
Sanford B. Dole
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 Navy
Naval War College Address, 1897
Cuban Revolt beginning in 1895
José
Marti
“Yellow Journalism”
William Randolph Hearst
Owner and editor New York Journal
Joseph Pulitzer
Owner 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