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America Becomes a Colonial Power

America Becomes a Colonial Power. Essential Question : Why did America join the imperialist club at the end of the 19c?. 1. Commercial/Business Interests. U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908. Flashback Circa 17 th Century. 1. Commercial/Business Interests.

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America Becomes a Colonial Power

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  1. America Becomes a Colonial Power

  2. Essential Question: Why did America join the imperialist club at the end of the 19c?

  3. 1. Commercial/Business Interests U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908

  4. Flashback Circa 17th Century

  5. 1. Commercial/Business Interests American Foreign Trade:1870-1914

  6. 2. Military/Strategic Interests Alfred T. Mahan  The Influence of Sea Power on History: 1660-1783

  7. 3. Social Darwinist Thinking The White Man’sBurden The Hierarchyof Race

  8. 4. Religious/Missionary Interests American Missionariesin China, 1905

  9. Foreshadowing • Keep this in mind. • Why was it important to convert these “heathens” to Christianity? • Who is behind this push for Christianity? • We will see this again throughout the 20th Century.

  10. 5. Closing the American Frontier

  11. 18th Century Western Expansion Early The Oregon Trail 1843 Mid Transcontinental Railroad LAND GRANTS Late Exodusters (Freed Slaves) Yukon Gold Rush

  12. Hawaii: "Crossroads of the Pacific"

  13. U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s

  14. U. S. View of Hawaiians Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in 1849 by virtue of economic treaties.

  15. Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii for the Hawaiians!

  16. U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii 1875 – Reciprocity Treaty 1890 – McKinley Tariff 1893 –Americanbusinessmen backed anuprising against Queen Liliuokalani. ??????????????????proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.

  17. To The Victor Belongs the Spoils Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898

  18. Hawaii Economy • Sugar and pineapple plantations. • Lanai (island) became known as Pineapple island when James DOLE helped it become the world’s leading exporter of pineapple.

  19. Sugar Cane

  20. Dole Pineapple Plantation

  21. Cuba

  22. The Imperialist Tailor

  23. Spanish Misrule in Cuba

  24. Gen. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy Cuba -???????????? Removed Cuban civilians to concentration camps. -??????????????? Helped propel US into Spanish American War 1898

  25. “Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism Joseph Pulitzer Hearst to Frederick Remington:You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war! William Randolph Hearst

  26. Yellow Journalism • ????????????????? • Uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. • Seen today as unprofessional and/or unethical.

  27. Jingoism • ?????????????????

  28. De Lôme Letter Dupuy de Lôme, SpanishAmbassador to the U.S. Criticized PresidentMcKinley as weak and abidder for the admirationof the crowd, besidesbeing a would-be politicianwho tries to leave a dooropen behind himself whilekeeping on good termswith the jingoes of hisparty.

  29. Theodore Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the McKinley administration. Imperialist and American nationalist. Criticized PresidentMcKinley as having the backbone of a chocolate éclair! Resigns his position to fight in Cuba.

  30. The “Rough Riders”

  31. Remember the Maineand to Hell with Spain! Funeral for Maine victims in Havana

  32. The Spanish-American War (1898):“That Splendid Little War” How prepared was the US for war?

  33. USS Olympia A ???????????

  34. The Philippines

  35. The Spanish-American War (1898):“That Splendid Little War”

  36. Dewey Captures Manila!

  37. Is He To Be a Despot?

  38. Emilio Aguinaldo Leader of the FilipinoUprising. July 4, 1946:Philippine independence

  39. William H. Taft, 1stGov.-General of the Philippines Great administrator.

  40. Our “Sphere of Influence”

  41. The Treaty of Paris: 1898 Cuba was ???????????? Spain gave up Puerto Rico and the island ofGuam. The U. S. paid Spain$20 mil. for thePhilippines. The U. S. becomesan ??????????????

  42. The American Anti-Imperialist League Founded in 1899. Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, WilliamJames, and WilliamJennings Bryan amongthe leaders. Campaigned against the ????????.

  43. Cuban Independence? Teller Amendment (1898) Platt Amendment (1903) • Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence. • The U.S. could ?????????. • Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for naval and coaling station. • Cuba must not build up an excessive public debt. Senator Orville Platt

  44. DILEMMA--Did U. S. citizenship follow the flag??

  45. Puerto Rico

  46. Puerto Rico: 1898 • 1900 - Foraker Act. • PR became an “unincorporated territory.” • Citizens of ???????? • Import duties on PR goods • 1901-1903 the Insular Cases. • Constitutional rights were?????????? • Congress had the power to decide these rights. • Import duties laid down by the Foraker Act were legal!

  47. Puerto Rico: 1898 • 1917 – Jones Act. • Gave full territorial status to PR. • Removed tariff duties on PR goods coming into the US. • PRs elected theirown legislators &governor to enforcelocal laws. • PRs could ???? • A resident commissioner was sent to Washington to vote for PR in the House.

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