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The Spanish-American War: America Enters the World Stage. STANDARDS ADDRESSED. Why significant events, policies, and individuals, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Sanford B. Dole, and missionaries moved the United States into the position of a world power. (Readiness).
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The Spanish-American War: America Enters the World Stage
STANDARDS ADDRESSED Why significant events, policies, and individuals, such as Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt, Sanford B. Dole, and missionaries moved the United States into the position of a world power. (Readiness) Evaluate American expansionism, including acquisitions such as Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico (Supporting)
The End of the Frontier As a result of the 1890 census, no longer a discernible “frontier. Historian Fredrick Jackson Turner used this as basis of “Frontier Thesis” in an 1893 paper. Frederick Jackson Turner Panic of 1893 Worst industrial depression up to that point President Grover Cleveland
America and the Pacific Economic interests predate the Civil War Missionary impulse in Pacific and Asia Trade Sanford B. Dole The Hawaiian Revolt, 1893 Overthrow of Queen Lili’oukalani Petition for annexation to United States Opposed by Cleveland
Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt and the emergence of the so-called “Large Policy” The United States should compete with the rest of the industrial powers
All the great masterful races have been fighting races, and the minute that a race loses the hard fighting virtues, then, no matter what else it may retain, no matter how skilled in commerce and finance, in science or art, it has lost its proud right to stand as the equal of the best. Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Naval War College Address, 1897
Cuban Revolt beginning in 1895 José Marti
“Yellow Journalism” William Randolph Hearst Owner and editor New York Journal Joseph Pulitzer Owner and editor New York World
As if designed for sensationalism Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau
….a splendid little war. John Hay, 1898