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America's Path to Global Superpower: Spanish-American War & Beyond

Explore America's motivations for intervention and the impact of the Spanish-American War on its rise to global superpower status. Delve into economic interests, humanitarian efforts, racial perceptions, national pride, and political influences that shaped America's decisions.

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America's Path to Global Superpower: Spanish-American War & Beyond

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  1. America’s First Steps Toward Global Superpower

  2. I. Motivations for Intervention • A. Economic: Industry Desires Resources and Markets

  3. B. Humanitarian: To Civilize and Christianize

  4. C. Racial: “Little Brown Brothers”

  5. D. National Pride & Global Competition

  6. E. Politics & Yellow Journalism

  7. II. The Spanish American-War • 4 Causes of the War: • Sugar (Economic) • Spanish Cruelties (Humanitarian)

  8. -- The Sinking of the USS Maine (Self-Defense/National Pride)

  9. -- Spanish “Brutalities” and Yellow Journalism (Political Pressure)

  10. B. A Short War: Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and Victory in 15 Weeks

  11. C. An American Puppet: Cuba & the Platt Amendment “The government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty….”

  12. III. The Philippine-American War

  13. A. Spain Sells the Philippines

  14. B. Filipino Resistance & Guerilla Warfare

  15. C. “The Wolf by the Ears”: 50 Years Until Independence

  16. The U.S. in Latin America: Good Neighbor or Imperialist?

  17. A. Puerto Rico as Permanent Colony

  18. B. Panamanian Independence & The Panama Canal

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