1 / 27

IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL REPUBLIC. FOREIGN AFFAIRS: 1870-1915 A20 w 9.213. “New Manifest Destiny”. GUIDING QUESTION. To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past U. S. expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? .

aimee
Download Presentation

IMPERIAL REPUBLIC

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. IMPERIAL REPUBLIC FOREIGN AFFAIRS: 1870-1915 A20w 9.213

  2. “New Manifest Destiny”

  3. GUIDING QUESTION To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past U. S. expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Ideals vs. interests?

  4. ArgumentsforOverseasExpansion 1.Economic – new markets U.S. Foreign Investments, 1869-1908

  5. Arguments forOverseasExpansion 2. National Power • New Manifest Destiny? • Keep up with European Powers • social darwinism 3. Military – naval bases • Alfred Thayer Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783 (1890)

  6. Arguments forOverseasExpansion 4. Spread of “Civilization” • Religion American Missionaries in China, 1905

  7. Arguments forOverseasExpansion 5. MaintainAmerican “Frontier” Spirit • Outlet for discontented people of 1890s • Historian Frederick Jackson Turner - Chicago World’s Fair (1893)

  8. Early Expansion Efforts • Alaska • “Seward’s Folly” ($7.2M) Why?

  9. Hawaiian Islands Queen Liliuokalani revolution, 1893 annexation, 1898 Early Expansion Efforts

  10. SPANISH-AMERICAN* WAR 1898 *-Cuban-Filipino

  11. Cuban Rebellion “Butcher Weyler” Causes of the Spanish-American War • Sugar plantations

  12. Yellow journalism William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war” Hearst to Frederic Remington, 1897 Causes of the Spanish-American War William Randolph Hearst Joseph Pulitzer Updating the Crowds about Cuba

  13. Causes of the Spanish-American War • “Jingoism” • Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy

  14. Causes of the Spanish-American War • De Lômè letter • “Remember the Maine” Cruiser Maine in Havana Harbor Wreck of the U.S.S. Maine

  15. Commodore Dewey Battle of Manila Bay The Spanish-American War in the Philippines

  16. The Spanish-American War in Cuba • Rough Riders • “A splendid little war” • Treaty of Paris, 1899

  17. American Empire, 1900

  18. AMERICA’S NEW ROLE Power vs. Ideals????

  19. Philippine-American War (1899-1902) Emilio Aguinaldo William Howard Taft The Philippines Emilio Aguinaldo

  20. American Anti-Imperialist League • Founded in 1898 • Among its members: Mark Twain (VP), Andrew Carnegie, William Jennings Bryan, Grover Cleveland, Jane Addams • Campaigned against the annexation of the Philippines and other acts of imperialism

  21. Cuban Independence? Platt Amendment (1903) • Cuba was not to enter in to any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence or grant military bases • The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent government • Cuba would lease to the U.S. naval and coaling stations (Guantanamo Bay)

  22. China • Boxer Rebellion (1900)

  23. China: Open Door Policy

  24. Panama Canal

  25. Panama Canal • Panamanian Rebellion – U.S. Role • U.S. & Latin America

  26. Intervention in Latin America • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1905) • “Dollar Diplomacy” • Pancho Villa

  27. US Interventions in Latin America 1898-1934

More Related