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Wrapping up Standard 13…
• Theodore Roosevelt and the conservation/National Park Service
• Rise of Jim Crow – the great failure of the Progressives
• Plessy v. Ferguson – separate but equal; segregation is legal
SSUSH14 The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with
the world at the turn of the twentieth century.
a. Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and antiAsian immigration
sentiment on the west coast.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• The growth in industry attracted many
Chinese immigrants: gold mines and
the railroads
• Politicians blamed depressed wages
on the West Coast on Chinese
immigrants
• First group to be banned from entering
the United States
• Big business needed cheap labor –
began human trafficking of Chinese
laborers
SSUSH14 The student will explain America’s evolving relationship with the world
at the turn of the twentieth century.
b. Describe the Spanish-American War, the war in the Philippines, and the debate
over American expansionism.
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR - 1898
American Expansion
• As the US industrialized, businessmen sought new markets overseas and sources
for raw materials
• Expansionists wanted US to establish territories overseas
• Spanish Empire in the 1890s contained prime real estate that many
American businesses desired
Causes of the Spanish-American War
• 1895 - Cuban Rebellion breaks out against Spain
• Spanish using brutal tactics against Cubans; reports of concentration
camps
• Many in US wanted to intervene to protect financial investments;
others to replace Spain as the colonizer
• US sends Navy ships to patrol and protect Cuban rebels
- The U.S.S.
Maine explodes in
Havana Harbor –
February 15, 1898
“Remember the
Maine and to
hell with Spain!”
- Internal explosion
(accident) or an
attack?
- Pro-expansionists
believe Spanish to
blame for explosion
Causes of the Spanish-American War
• Yellow journalism – printing dramatic stories and headlines intended to generate
fear and anger; in this case, to get Americans to support war with Spain
• William McKinley was reluctant to declare war
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll
furnish the war”
Hearst to Frederic Remington, 1897
William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Updating the Crowds about Cuba
Warm up 5
• What is the main reason the US went to war against Spain?
• What event caused the war?
• Spanish Empire in the 1890s contained prime real estate that many
American businesses desired
De Lome Letter and
Declaring War
•Journalists obtained a letter
from the Spanish
ambassador to the US which
criticized President William
McKinley as weak
•McKinley and the US were
personally offended; war is
declared on Spain
The Spanish-American War in the Philippines
- The war lasted only 4 months; the U.S. easily defeats Spain
- Fighting occurred in Cuba and the Philippines
- After the war, the U.S. has a decision – grant Cuba and the Philippines independence,
or annex them for their own benefit?
Treaty of Paris, 1898
• The Spanish Empire ends the U.S.’ begins
• Guam and Puerto Rico are annexed by the United States
• Philippines purchased by the US; remains a US colony 1898-1946
• Cuba granted semi-independence (Platt Amendment)
Philippine-American War (1899-1903)
• After Sp-Am War, Filipinos were angry that the U.S. simply replaced
the Spanish as a controlling power
• Emilio Aguinaldo led an unsuccessful revolt against U.S. forces in
1899.
AMERICA’S
NEW ROLE:
World Power
Power vs. Ideals
• c. Explain U.S. involvement in Latin America, as reflected by the
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine and the creation of the
Panama Canal.
Panama
Canal
Panama Canal
- Theodore Roosevelt – Big Stick diplomacy – (threat of attack always on
the table) - helped Panama gain independence from Colombia in
exchange for the right to build the canal
- The canal would help the United States: 1. access markets (places to
trade) in the Pacific and Latin America much quicker; and 2. defend both
coasts with the Navy much easier
Intervention in Latin America
• To protect the canal and U.S. interests in Latin America, TR issued the Roosevelt
Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905) – ‘police powers’ in the western
hemisphere
• The U.S. reserved the right to intervene in any country where affairs threatened U.S.
interests (for example, an economic problem that may lead to Communist revolution)
End of 14.
America grew up (big business, railroads, cities) and went through growing pains in the
process (unions, immigration). The South restored white supremacy in the wake of the
Civil War (Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, sharecropping, disfranchisement). The US, due
to its industrial might, desire for new business opportunities, and need to protect those
business interests began to exert its new power on the world stage heading into the
1900s.
Questions?
IANB
Check list…
- Warm ups
- Interactions – one per page. For print out sheets, you can count a front
and back sheet as one.
- Cornell QUESTIONS. 2 per page. On print outs, one on each side.
- Summaries:
- Standard 11
- Standard 12
- Standard 13
- Summarize the big ideas of these standards into a paragraph