Quest for Empire Chapter 22

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Quest for EmpireChapter 22

• Imperialism

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I. Remake the world in the American image!

• 1. Imperialism imposition of control over
  other people
• Colonies
• 1880 to 1914?active imperialism.
• More markets more power!

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II. RELIGION AND SOCIAL DARWINISM

1. Reverend Josiah Strongs speech
2. Pamphlet Our Country 1885
3. Americans?destined to lead others
4. Social Darwinists
5. Other cultures not worth preserving
6. Only America is the appropriate model

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III. HAWAII

1. In 1890 USN Cpt. Alfred T. Mahan
2. Influence of Sea power Upon History
3. Strong Navy!!
4. Need colonies for bases way stops
5. Andrew Carnegie?Ships need steel!!

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HAWAII (contd)

1. HI
2. Sugar cane fruit stories.
3. By 1890 native Hawaiians40 of pop.
4. White Americans dominated society

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HAWAII (contd)

• 10. In 1887-Bayonet Constitution
• U.S. gets Pearl Harbor
• 11. Liliuokalani?1891
• She inspires nationalism
• Resist Americans

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HAWAII (contd)

• 12. January 1893 Queen Lil overthrown
• Hawai becomes a republic
• Sanford B. Dole!!!
• 13. 1898 HI becomes a territory
• 1959 became the 50th state in the union

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IV. Venezuelan crisis

• Eng. v. VZ border dispute.
• VZ asks USA to help
• US Monroe Doctrine
• British agree to a meeting
• DISPUTED LAND WAS DIVIDED

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V. Cuba

• 1. Cuba? sugar plantationstobaccocigars
• 2. Spain harsh over Native Cubans ? denied
  independence
• 3. 1895 Jose Marti launches a revolution from
  America.

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Cuba (contd)

• 4. Spanish bring in Valeriano Weyler BUTCHER
• Reconcentration policy.
• Cuban pop.put into camps
• Anyone outside camps were rebels

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Cuba (contd)

1. American Yellow Press generated American
   sympathy
2. Exaggerated stories about the Cubans and the
   Spanish
3. Americans protest reconcentration
4. Cuba Libre?rallying cry
5. Hearst you furnish the pictures, Ill furnish
   the war.

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Cuba (contd)

1. U.S.S. Maine exploded in Havana Harbor
2. Press accused Spain of sabotage!
3. Reality?boiler exploded
4. Remember the Maine

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Cuba (contd)

• 17. McKinley sends Spain an ultimatum
• End fighting
• End reconcentration
• Accept U.S. arbitration of conflict
• 18. April 19th, 1898
• U.S. Congress declares Cuba independent
• Spain ordered to withdraw
• Authorized President to use military force
• Teller Amendment

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Cuba (contd)

• 19. Spain declares war!

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VI. THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

1. 1st battle?The Philippines April 11, 1898
2. Islands held key strategic purposes
3. Commodore George DeweyAsst. Secretary of Navy
   Theodore Roosevelt

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THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (contd)

1. Americas 1st war overseas
2. Many volunteered
3. Rough Riders
4. Press made TR a hero and household name

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THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (contd)

• 8. TR?charge up San Juan Hill
• The war lasts 3 months the summer of 98
• splendid little war
• 5,400 Americans died but only 379 from actual
  combat
• Rest died of disease

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THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (contd)

1. Peace Treaty of Paris 1898
2. Cuba independent
3. U.S. gets Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam
4. Platt Amendment
5. U.S. gets military bases
6. Cuba cant sign treaties against American
   interests
7. The U.S. can intervene

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THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR (contd)

• 7. What happens to the Philippines?
• Emilio Aquinaldo
• Christianize and Americanize Filipinos
• 1898 and took 4 years (ends 1902)
• 200,000 Filipinos
• 5,000 Americans (Indian fighters)
• 4. RECONCENTRATION

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VII. ASIA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE

• open door policy
• SPHERES
• In 1899-Boxers rose in rebellion

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ASIA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE (contd)

1. 1905 Russia v. Japan over Port Arthur
2. Pres. TR mediated Portsmouth N.H.
3. balance of power
4. To check Japan
5. TR won Nobel Peace Prize

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Foreign Armies
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ASIA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE (contd)

• 9. Dollar Diplomacy

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VIII. AMERICA INVADES LATIN AMERICA

1. Cuba still occupied by U.S.
2. North America benefits not the Cubans
3. U.S. corporations get more than 60 of Cubas
   rural lands
4. U.S. marines prevent rebellions

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AMERICA INVADES LATIN AMERICA (contd)

• Panama Canal
• Pacific and Atlantic Oceans quicker
• Panama controlled by Colombia
• U.S. encourages Panamanian rebels to rise in
  rebellion

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AMERICA INVADES LATIN AMERICA (contd)

• 1903 REVOLUTION IN PANAMA
• U.S. GUNBOAT NASHVILLE KEPT COL. FROM LANDING
  TROOPS IN PANAMA
• GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY (M)
• NOV 18, 1903 HOUSE CANAL TREATY
• USA MADE THEMSELVES SOVEREIGN IN PANAMA