Get a laptop and login. Grab a handout on your way in.

1. Hi • Get a laptop and login. • Grab a handout on your way in. • Page 73 – Make sure you have the following written down. • 1st line, “Direction – left/west b/c MD=westward expansion • 3rd line, “Angel – MD=God’s plan, Manifest = God” • 5th line, “Left Hand – telegraph line, communication west w/expansion” • Last line, “Transportation – horse, horse/buggy, TC RR • Side of the handout you picked up on your way in with the tweets from the Washington Post & Wall Street Journal • YOU DON’T HAVE TO WRITE ANYTHING DOWN! JUST LOOK AT THE PAGE! • Outline on page 74 • “This House is Not a Home” • Three Days Grace

2. Isolationism imperialism

3. Why?!

4. We’ve got “stuff” to sell

5. We’ve got “stuff” to sell • Oil • Steel • Railroads • Steel • Oil • Telephones • Oil • Steel • Telephones • Steel • Oil • Railroads • Oil • Railroads • Telephones • Steel • Oil • Steel • Railroads • Telephones • Steel • Oil • Steel • Oil • Steel • Oil • Railroads

6. In order to sell “stuff,” • We need • Natural resources to make “stuff” like steel • People with whom to trade • We need a new foreign policy and a strong Navy to enforce it! • I M P E R I A L I S M !

8. And if they don’t like it….

9. Learning Goal 2 • I will be able to: • Define and explain the importance of yellow journalism • Identify Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

11. Page 78 • “shows once more what McKinley is: weak and catering to the rabble, and besides, a low politician, who desires to leave a door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes of his party.” • Weak and catering to the rabble = doing what everyone wants him to do • Door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes of his party = talking out of both sides of his mouth, saying he wants peace to Enrique Dupuy de Lome while talking about war with those who want it.

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19. Handout • Side with the two tweets • Work with partner briefly answering • Response to Dupuy de Lome • Work individually

20. Urban Growth New technology Problems Improvements • By 1900, 40% of Americans lived in cities (HUGE shift!) • Immigrants responsible for much of the growth • Chicago: 30,000 in 1850, 1.7 million by 1900 • RRs = job opportunities for I and southern blacks • To accommodate population changes! • Skyscrapers – build up not out, elevators, Pgh steel! • Mass transit – elevated trains, subways, trolleys • Mass Culture – newspapers, department stores, World Fairs, Amusement parks (Kennywood in 1896) • Needed ways to house/entertain booming populations • Made worse b/c of pop growth, exposed by Jacob Riis How the Other Half Lives • Tenements, sanitation problems, no safety standards • Few windows, no running water or indoor plumbing • Pollution, diseases, Pgh turned on lights during day • 1901 New York State Tenement House Act • Settlement houses – centers offering education and recreation opportunities; Hull House in Chicago 1889

21. Yellow Journalism American involvement in SA War American soldiers Land acquired • Exaggerated news to sell more papers; more bought during war • Pulitzer vs Hearst to gain readers in NYC – why so many people? • Cuba part of Spain, Spanish ruled cruelly, stories exaggerated • Am people demanded action, president McKinley refused • January 1898, Hearst’s paper published letter from Enrique Dupuy de Lome insulting McKinley • February 1898, USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor – accidental but blamed on Spain • April 1898 – US frees Cuba from Spanish control & orders Spain to leave, write Teller Amendment claiming Cuba free and US has no interest in controlling them • Spain and US declare war on each other • War fought in Philippines & in Cuba – hot temps; soldiers fighting in wool uniforms, disease rampant • Rough Riders led by Teddy Roosevelt capture Kettle & San Juan Hills – TR becomes war hero • Cuba freed; Platt Amendment requires Cuba to allow US to intervene when US feels necessary and lease land at cheap price, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba b/c of it • US acquires Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam (PPG) • 1917 Jones Act – PR = US Citizens, Phil independent after WWII

22. Yellow Journalism American involvement in SA War American soldiers Land acquired • Exaggerated news to sell more papers; more bought during war • Pulitzer vs Hearst to gain readers in NYC – why so many people? • Cuba part of Spain, Spanish ruled cruelly, stories exaggerated • Am people demanded action, president McKinley refused • January 1898, Hearst’s paper published letter from Enrique Dupuy de Lome insulting McKinley • February 1898, USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor – accidental but blamed on Spain • April 1898 – US frees Cuba from Spanish control & orders Spain to leave, write Teller Amendment claiming Cuba free and US has no interest in controlling them • Spain and US declare war on each other • War fought in Philippines & in Cuba – hot temps; soldiers fighting in wool uniforms, disease rampant • Rough Riders led by Teddy Roosevelt capture Kettle & San Juan Hills – TR becomes war hero • Cuba freed; Platt Amendment requires Cuba to allow US to intervene when US feels necessary and lease land at cheap price, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba b/c of it • US acquires Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam (PPG) • 1917 Jones Act – PR = US Citizens, Phil independent after WWII

23. 2.2 Yellow Journalism Cuba & Spain America in SA War • Exaggerated news to sell more papers; more bought during war • Pulitzer vs Hearst to gain readers in NYC – why so many people? • Cuba part of Spain, Spanish ruled cruelly, stories exaggerated • Am people demanded action, president McKinley refused • January 1898, Hearst’s paper published letter from Enrique Dupuy de Lome insulting McKinley • February 1898, USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor – accidental but blamed on Spain • April 1898 – US frees Cuba from Spanish control & orders Spain to leave, write Teller Amendment claiming Cuba free and US has no interest in controlling them

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