Student Notes

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Chapter 20

• Student Notes

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Birth of a Nation
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Learning Objectives

• After reading this chapter, you should be able
  to
• 1 Identify two or three major foreign policy
  pronouncements that influenced nineteenth-century
  American policies.
• 2 Explain each of the four major motivations for
  American expansionism in the 1890s
• .3 Describe the series of events that led to the
  Spanish-American War and those that led to the
  annexation of and war with the Philippines.
• 4 State several arguments for and against the
  annexation of the Philippines.
• 5 Locate each of the following on a map and state
  why it is important.

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Timeline
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Discussion Question Part One

• 1. Discuss the concept of the United States as a
  model society for other countries and explain how
  that concept affected American foreign policy in
  the late nineteenth century.
• 2. Discuss American efforts to expand into the
  Pacific Ocean area prior to the outbreak of the
  Spanish-American War.

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Discussion Question Part One

• 3. Explain how profits, piety, and politics
  affected American foreign policy in the late
  nineteenth century.
• 4. Discuss the philosophy of those individuals
  who, in the late nineteenth century, believed
  that the United States should seek national glory
  and greatness in world affairs.
• 5 Discuss the factors that led to the U.S.
  decision to declare war against Spain in 1898.

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Spanish American War
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Discussion Question Part Two

• 1. Contrast the arguments of those individuals
  who supported U. S. control of the Philippine
  Islands after the end of the Spanish-American War
  with the arguments of those who opposed American
  acquisition of the Philippines.

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Discussion Question Part Two

• 2. Discuss the issue of imperialism as a factor
  in the election of 1900 and explain the policy
  that the United States eventually adopted for
  governing the territories it controlled outside
  the limits of the continental United States.
• 4. Discuss the major developments in U.S.
  relations with the Latin American countries
  during the Theodore Roosevelt administration

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Discussion Question Part Two

• 5. Discuss U.S. relations with Japan and Europe
  during the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
• 6. Evaluate the usefulness of political cartoons
  as historical sources from "Boss" Tweed to
  Theodore Roosevelt.

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Gateway to China
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Foreign Trade
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Global Imperialism
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USA Expansion
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Politeness
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Let go of him
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Panama Canal
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McKinley and the Philippines