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EXPANSIONISM or Imperialism

EXPANSIONISM or Imperialism. AMERICA IN THE WORLD. JUSTIFICATIONS OF IMPERIALISM. ECONOMIC INTELLECUTAL MILITARY. Big Business in support of foreign markets. ECONOMIC MOTIVATIONS. Financial motivation. Social Darwinism (Herbert Spencer) –Americans had completed inward

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EXPANSIONISM or Imperialism

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  1. EXPANSIONISMor Imperialism AMERICA IN THE WORLD

  2. JUSTIFICATIONS OF IMPERIALISM ECONOMIC INTELLECUTAL MILITARY

  3. Big Business in support of foreign markets ECONOMIC MOTIVATIONS

  4. Financial motivation

  5. Social Darwinism (Herbert Spencer) –Americans had completed inward expansion to the West – so now it was time for overseas expansion. INTELLECTUAL JUSTIFICATIONS

  6. Mahan’s – The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890) detailed the importance of sea power: Military Justifications

  7. CUBA

  8. CUBA AND WAR WITH SPAIN General Weyler

  9. Economic: Americans had 50 million $ invested in sugar. American involvement with Cuba

  10. Cuba: Destination Honeymoon

  11. Mint Julep anyone?

  12. Business of making sugar

  13. Remapping . . .Deforestation

  14. Importing Wood?

  15. Jose Martin

  16. Reconcentration camps in Cuba

  17. Steps to Cuban Revolution • Madrid promises reform • American Business men like J.P. Morgan “believed that further talk with Spain would accomplish nothing.

  18. THE MAINE

  19. What happened to the Maine?

  20. Funeral in Havana

  21. War to Free Cuba • Mixed emotions about going to war • Anti-imperialists • Imperialist view

  22. NPR EXCITEMENT http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3

  23. Anti-Imperialists

  24. Anti-Imperialism

  25. Andrew Carnegie – anti-imperialist

  26. Blood Brothers

  27. Today’s Connections

  28. Imperialists?

  29. Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Albert Beveridge • Many businessmen/bankers • The Presidents – Cleveland, McKinley

  30. THE LABOR UNION • Labor – concerned about imperialism/but when war broke out – AFL supported war • Not all Labor felt the same way . . .

  31. Diplomatic Relations with Cuba • TELLER AMENDMENT – Tell Her about it, • Platt Amendment – Serve Cuba on a platter

  32. Guantanamo Bay

  33. Guantanamo Bay

  34. Guerilla Warfare Problems in Philippines

  35. General Arthur MacArthur

  36. Emilo Aguinaldo y Famy

  37. President McKinley There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all [the Philippine Islands] and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift, and civilize, and Christianize them.

  38. “Kill everyone over Ten”

  39. Mark Twain “We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile so some dozens of disagreeable patriots; . . . And so, by these Providences of God – and the phrase is the government’s not mine – we are a World Power.”

  40. Music of the 1890s • http://www.pbs.org/crucible/frames/_music.html

  41. HAWAII • Aloha!

  42. Panama Canal

  43. PANAMA CANAL • Roosevelt desperately wanted a canal to connect the oceans. • Secretary of State Hay negotiated with Great Britain to let us do what we wanted w/out getting involved. • Colombia wanted a ton of money for us to go in there and make a canal.. Senate at first refused. • Panama conveniently staging a revolt against Columbia. • Roosevelt recognized Panama’s new government right away – refused to let Columbians back in.

  44. Open Door

  45. To China

  46. Roosevelt Corollary • Caribbean Countries – impoverished and beholden to European creditors. • U.S didn’t like this connection – thought it endangered the power of the Monroe Doctrine. • U.S. made it clear that it would come into troubled American nations and set them straight (did so with Dominican Republic) • Roosevelt Corollary – addition to Monroe Doctrine – U.S would be the international police power in the region.

  47. A policy of influencing our American neighbors without physical control – but money control (Taft) Dollar Diplomacy

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