Transcript U.S. Expansion Overseas

STAGES IN U.S. EXPANSION
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1803: Louisiana Purchase
1823: Proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine
1846-47: Mexican-American War
1867: Alaska Purchase
1890: Wounded Knee Massacre marks the end of the
Indian Wars
• 1898: Conquest of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Phillippines;
formal annexation of Hawaii
• 1904: Proclamation of the Roosevelt Corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine
• 1906-14: Construction of the Panama Canal
McKinley campaign
poster, 1896:
He championed
protective tariffs and
the Gold Standard
against William
Jennings Bryan
THE CARIBBEAN AROUND 1914
THE USS MAINE ENTERS HAVANA HARBOR, JANUARY 1898
261 of the 355 crew members died
after the explosion on February 15
“Destruction of Admiral Cervara’s Spanish Fleet
off Santiago de Cuba in 1898”
Col. Theodor Roosevelt and his “Rough Riders”
on San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919)
• Rancher, hunter, naturalist,
and historian
• New York City Police
Commissioner
• Appointed Asst. Secretary
of the Navy in 1897
• Founded the Rough Riders
in 1898
• Elected governor of New
York, November 1898
• Chosen as McKinley’s VicePresident in 1900
• U.S. President, 1901-08,
offering the “Square Deal”
THE “ROOSEVELT COROLLARY” TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE
(from Theodore Roosevelt’s “Fourth Annual Message to
Congress,” December 6, 1904)
“It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger
or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the
Western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare. All that
this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable,
orderly, and prosperous…. If a nation shows that it knows how to
act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political
matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no
interference from the United States. Chronic wrongdoing, or an
impotence which results in a general loosening of the ties of
civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately
require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western
Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe
Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in
flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise
of an international police power.”
The Panama
Canal
(built from
1906 to 1914)