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JUST DO IT

JUST DO IT.

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JUST DO IT

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  1. JUST DO IT • Imagine there are two students at your school, Billy and Brad. Billy is much smaller than Brad, and Brad always picks on Billy and takes his things. Billy can’t do anything without Brad’s permission. One day at lunch, Billy tries to sit at your table with you and your friends, but Brad won’t let him. Brad says he’s going to beat Billy up if he sits there. • What would you do in this situation? Help Billy? Ignore Billy? Something else? You have five minutes to write a brief paragraph telling me what you would do, and why.

  2. Introduction to Expansionism and Imperialism

  3. MANIFEST DESTINY“Sea to Shining Sea”

  4. BUT WHY STOP AT THE SEA?

  5. QUICKNOTES • EXPANSIONISM- The policy that a country should get larger, or expand to other places. • IMPERIALISM- Expanding a country’s territory or gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas. • ANNEX- To bring more land into a larger territory.

  6. Reasons for Expansionism • Desire to compete with Europe • Theories of racial superiority • Strong navies need bases for re-supply • Need for new economic markets

  7. Reasons Against Expansionism • No reason to expand, plenty to do at home. • The United States should not rule other people. • Absorbing different cultures into America would be difficult.

  8. First Stop…..SAMOA • The Samoan Islands were an excellent pit-stop in the Pacific. • Native Samoan leaders wanted U.S. to help protect them from others. • Germany and U.S. almost went to war over the islands. • 1889- agreed to split the islands into protectorates

  9. Hawaiian Annexation • Queen Liliuokalani- came to power in 1891, sought to curb American influence and return Hawaiian economy to local control. • Influence of sugar- American sugar planters enjoyed numerous advantages on the islands, including no import duties on sugar shipped to the U.S. When Queen “Lil” tried to curb American influence, sugar planters deposed her and declared Hawaii a republic in 1893.

  10. Hawaiian Annexation Sanford Dole, 1st prez of Republic of Hawaii Why Annexed? - American gov’t initially opposed to annexation, due to how Queen “Lil” had been deposed. But agreed to annexation in 1898 when war with Spain proved strategic value of a naval base in Hawaii. Lowering the Hawaiian flag as U.S. annexes the country.

  11. CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

  12. QUICKNOTES CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR • Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the United States

  13. MEANWHILE IN CUBA…Spanish were cruel to the Cubans

  14. CUBANS WERE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM

  15. MANY AMERICANS SUPPORTED CUBAN INDEPENDENCE

  16. QUICKNOTES CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR • Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the United States. • Americans sympathized with Cuban fighters.

  17. YELLOW JOURNALISM • Two newspapers, New York Journal and New York World, were competing against each other. • To attract more readers, both papers would report on scandals and bloody atrocities in Cuba. If there was no story, they would make one up.

  18. QUICKNOTES CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR • Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the United States. • Americans sympathized with Cuban fighters. • Yellow Journalism.

  19. U.S.S. MAINE • American battleship sent to Cuba to pick up American citizens and bring them to safety out of the Cuban rebellion. • Arrived in Havana Harbor in January 1898. • Then on the night of February 15….

  20. EXPLOSION!!!!

  21. EXPLOSION OF U.S.S. MAINE • 260 American sailors killed. • Spanish authorities claim that explosion was accident. • Americans say the Spanish attacked the ship with a mine; shout “Remember the Maine!” Demanded war with Spain. • 1976- Study found the explosion had been an accident.

  22. YELLOW JOURNALISM OF MAINE EXPLOSION New York World New York Journal

  23. QUICKNOTES CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR • Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the United States. • Americans sympathized with Cuban fighters. • Yellow Journalism. • Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine

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