Transcript 1. Natural Resources 2. More Markets to sell thing 3. Military Bases

When a stronger nation takes control of a weaker
nation for these reasons:
1. Natural Resources
2. More Markets to sell thing
3. Military Bases
To get more land
A desire to aid
less fortunate
people.
Economic gain by
increasing markets
“White man’s burden.”
Reasons for American
Involvement in the Pacific,
and Latin America
Late 19th &Early 20th
Centuries
The spread of
Christianity
To spread
democracy
ANNEXATION
To take over a country with plans of
making it your own
Control of a powerful nation over
dependent territories
PROTECTORATE
When a stronger nation
agrees to “protect” a
weaker nation
Latin America:
Monroe Doctrine
guided US
policy
Alaska:
US bought from
Russia for
$7.2 million
US IMPERIALISM
OF THE LATE
1800’s
US gained possessions after
war with Spain
in 1898.
Africa/China:
US pushed
OPEN DOOR
POLICY
The U.S. policy that asked for
equal trading terms in AFRICA
and ASIA- mainly CHINA
Alfred Thayer Mahan:
Wrote “The Influence of Sea
Power Upon History”
His book basically said that if
you have a modern and
powerful navy, you will
become a world power.
The Spanish - American War
Secondary Causes
Underlying Cause
Triggers
*Sugar Tariff
*Cuban desire for
independence
*Jose Marti
Events in the
Philippines
*De Lome letter
*Yellow Press
*Reconcentracion
camps
*Admiral Dewey
*Sinking of the
USS Maine
Events in Cuba
*TR and the Rough
Riders
*Santiago Bay
*Manila Bay
Type of journalism that used large
headlines, sensational stories, and comics.
The reporters often exaggerated their
reports to get readers.
Created the New York newspaper The World.
Competed with William Randolph Hearst
for readers and fans of Yellow Journalism.
William Randolph Hearst
•Published the New York newspaper
The Journal.
Competed with Joseph Pulitzer for
readers.
•Hearst’s famous quote to one of his
journalists in
the field down in Cuba was;
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll
furnish the war!”
•Cuban freedom fighter
who lived in U.S.
•He gained US support for
Cuban independence from
Spain.
Teller Amendment
US promised not to annex Cuba
once the island was free from
Spain and peace restored.
1898
CUBA
Remember the Maine!
•The USS Maine blew
up in the harbor
outside Havana, Cuba.
• The Yellow Press
blamed Spain for the
explosion.
•The American people
believed the press.
•The new and improved US Navy destroys the Spanish Navy at
Manila Bay in the Philippines, under Admiral George Dewey.
•We also destroyed the Spanish Atlantic Fleet at Santiago Bay,
Cuba.
T
R
Teddy Roosevelt and the
Rough Riders.
They were the heroes of the
U.S. Army in Cuba.
More U.S. soldiers were killed
by bad American meat,( “The
Jungle”) than by Spanish
bullets.
Reasons Against:
1)It is contrary to the principles of the US
Constitution. (It makes us look like a bunch of
hypocrites!)
2) Labor leaders didn’t want cheap labor overseas.
December 1898
Spain surrendered all claim to Cuba
Ceded Puerto Rico and the island of Guam to the
United States
Sold the Philippines for $20 million dollars.
1901
The Platt Amendment overturned the Teller Amendment.
Under the Platt Amendment:
1. Cuba could not make a treaty with a foreign power that
might impair its independence.
2. Cuban government gave U.S. right to intervene in Cuban
internal affairs.
3. Cuban government agreed to give U.S. naval and coaling
stations.
1900
Under this act, Puerto Ricans were citizens of
Puerto Rico but not citizens of the United States.
•Fought for Philippine
independence against
Spain
•And then against the
United States.
The US wanted to let every one trade
freely and equally in China. Everyone
gets their fair share.
European powers and Japan wanted to
carve China up like a big pie. Each country
gets their own piece and doesn’t share with
anyone else. Europe had already done this
with Africa.
1900
•The Boxers were a secret
Chinese society whose name
when translated into English
means “righteous harmony fist.”
•The Boxers did not like
foreigners in their country and so
they rose up to kill all of them.
(242 in all.)
•The Boxers were crushed by a
combined American and
European Army.
1904 - 1905
Russia and Japan go to war over Manchuria, a province
in Northwest China, and Korea. Although smaller,
Japan defeats Russia. Teddy Roosevelt gets the two sides
to sign a peace agreement and wins the Nobel Peace
Prize.
The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension to the Monroe Doctrine. If intervention
was necessary in the Western Hemisphere, the Monroe Doctrine required that the
United States undertake the intervention. The Roosevelt Corollary is Roosevelt
saying we are the cops of the Western Hemisphere.
The US helped Panama gain its
independence from Columbia.
The Panama Canal made ship
travel from the Atlantic Ocean
to the Pacific Ocean much
quicker.
I vant to suck your
blood!
The biggest threat to workers
on the Panama Canal was the
mosquito. The mosquito was a
carrier of malaria and yellow
fever.
The United States does not like to take over territory
militarily. Instead we invest heavily in a foreign country.
Dollar Diplomacy was our foreign policy towards Latin
America.
“Substituting dollars
for
bullets.”
We invested a lot of money into
Mexico. From 1911 to 1914
Mexico went through a series of
revolutions that threatened our
investments. Also, Pancho Villa
crossed the American border and
murdered some civilians in New
Mexico. These events led the US
to send our army under General
John J. Pershing into Mexico.
We had to call our army back in
1917 because we had just entered
WWI.