Transcript An Opportunity for Expansion/Imperialism

U.S. HISTORY
Goal -6
Review
Content issues:
 Senator Alfred T. Mahan - Imperialist
 U.S. Imperialism
 Creating a Powerful Navy
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Content Issues: U.S. Imperialism
 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
 Roosevelt Big Stick policy in Latin Amer.
 Desire for naval Power Alfred T. Mahan
 Create new markets for U.S. trade
 Belief social Darwinism Survival of the fittest
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An Opportunity for
Expansion/Imperialism
Cuba, only ninety miles off the
coast of the United States,
presented American
imperialist with chance to end
America’s isolation and assert
its power in world affairs.
Cuban rebels first began to
agitate for their independence.
In the 1870s a prolonged
uprising took place against the
Spanish; and in 1895, Spanish
American War began.
In the United States, citizens
sympathetic to the Cuban
rebels were calling for war
against Spain. Sensational
stories such as this appeared
in the American express
leading to "Yellow Press"
Content Issues: Desire for new markets
 U.S. involvement Spain sunk USS Maine
 U.S. acquired Philippines and Hawaii
 U.S. Control of western hemisphere
 Platt Amendment control of Cuba
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Content
Issue:
 U.S.
wanted
access to
China to
create a
favorable
trade
balance
among
industrial
nations in
1910.
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Content Issues: Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted
stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of
boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion.
It was particularly indicative of two papers founded and
popularized in the late 19th century- The New York
World, run by Joseph Pulitzer and The New York
Journal, run by William Randolph Hearst.
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Content Issues: William Howard Taft
Dollar Diplomacy
Newly acquired U.S. territories used to create a
profit
Increase the trade balance in favor of the U.S.
Content Issues:
 After Spanish American War
 Cuba is an Independent country
 Platt Amendment gives U.S. political control
over Cuba
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Content Issues:
 The use of Hawaii as Naval station for U.S.
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Content Issues: Josiah Strong
 To spread western civilization and Christian
ideas and the belief of Anglo-Saxon superiority
 U.S. Mercantilist policy supported imperialism
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Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis is the notion
that the development of the American frontier helped
to shape not only the character of the American people
but also the nature of its institutions. Turner, claimed
that traits and characteristics which developed during
the Nineteenth-Century push from East to West
individualism, nationalism, mobility, egalitarianism
(social Justice) came to dominate the formation of the
American character. His ideas led to American
imperialism abroad.
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Teddy Roosevelt began to
revitalize the navy. Now
that America's empire
stretched from the
Caribbean across the
Pacific, the old idea of a
canal between the two
oceans took on new
urgency. Alfred T. Mahan
predicted that "the canal
will become a military
strategic center of vital
importance.
"The canal," Roosevelt
said, "was by far the most
important action I took in
foreign affairs during the
time I was President.”
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Treaty of Paris - President William McKinley insisted
that Spain cede sovereignty to the United States of
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in exchange
Spain received $20 million.
The treaty gave the United States temporary control
over Cuba the Teller Amendment when it declared war)
and actual possession of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the
Philippines. Spain received $20 million.
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A Splendid Little
War: the navy,
however, needed
little preparation.
The Pacific fleet
was visiting Hong
Kong when the
news of war
arrived.
Commodore George
Dewey quickly
provisioned his
ships and set off to
attack the Spanish
colony in the
Philippine Islands.
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U.S. policy with respect
to China in the late 19th
century intended to
ensure that China would
not be divided among the
European nations and
Japan and to ensure free
access to China for U.S.
political and business
interests.
Statement of U.S. foreign
policy toward China.
Issued by U.S. secretary
of state John Hay (1899),
the statement reaffirmed
the principle that all
countries should have
equal access to any
Chinese port open to
trade.