AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

• Part One
• 1867-1901

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Imperialism

• Imperialism - establishing colonies and building
  empires
• The need for imperialism
• Achieving imperialism
• Effects of imperialism

http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/filmmore/referen
ce/primary/imperialism.html
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The Need for Imperialism

• Manifest Destiny
• exert Americas power over Western Hemisphere

http//ftp.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html
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The Need For Imperialism

• Why?
• What did we just study?
• Need raw materials for manufactured goods
• Need buyers for goods (markets)
• Social Darwinism-exposure to Anglo-Saxon culture
• Playing catch-up with Europe

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Achieving Imperialism

• Sewards Folly-1867
• Alaska purchased for 7 million
• Hawaii-1889
• Sugar planters settle in 1887
• Queen Lilioukalani-return to old ways
• Sugar planters overthrow

http//pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1983/p1183/alaska.html htt
p//www.visit-hawaii.com/goods1/HotPics/Liliuokala
ni.html http//www.museumofhoaxes.com/hopkins.html

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Achieving Imperialism

• Building the Great White Fleet
• Alfred T. Mahan

http//www.warships1.com/USbb13_Virginia_GWF.jpg
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Achieving Imperialism

• Spanish-American War - 1898
• a.k.a. Splendid Little War
• Causes
• Protect trade with Cuba
• Side with Cuban rebels against Spain
• Yellow Journalism William Randolf Hearst
• USS Maine explosion

http//www.farmington.k12.mn.us/intrview/ldyeljou.
htm http//www.zapcom.net/jderr/hearst/cuba.htm
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Fronts of War

• Cuban front
• San Juan Hill July 1, 1898
• The Buffalo Soldiers Rough Riders outflank
  Spanish on hills
• Santiago Bay July 3, 1898
• Destroy Spanish Fleet establish Guantanamo Bay

http//www.chnm.gmu.edu/aq/war/film1.htm
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Result of Cuban Front

• Platt Amendment - 1901
• No treaties with other countries that weaken
  independence
• U.S. allowed to buy/lease naval posts
• Cuba must be able to pay debt
• U.S. can intervene to protect Cubans
• U.S. unable to establish stable Cuban government
• Puppet government until 1950s

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Fronts of War

• In the Philippines
• Manila Bay-1898 American Fleet destroys Spanish
  Fleet
• 1899-McKinley annexes the Philippines

Battle of Manila Bay http//www.watermelon-kid.com
/history/spanam/span-am_images.htm
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Result of Philippine Front

• Insurrection
• Philippines want their own government
• 200,000 Philippines lose their lives fighting for
  own government

• After Insurrection
• Set up government in 1916
• U.S. promises independence
• Granted in 1946

http//www.iowanationalguard.com/pages/Pub_Affair/
history/SA_War_and_Phil_Insurrection.html
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Effects of Imperialism

• In America
• Fuses the North South after Civil War
• Diverts attention from class conflicts
• Labor opposition to new markets and foreign
  laborers (remember Gompers?)
• International
• Move from isolation
• Growing presence around globe

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Imperialism Summary

• Imperialism - establishing colonies and building
  empires
• The need for imperialism
• Achieving imperialism
• Effects of imperialism

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Questions to Think About

• What is meant by imperialism? How is it
  different than isolationism?
• What do you think caused the Spanish-American
  War?
• How can you relate the events of Imperialism to
  America today?