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Write down your response: What images/symbols/characters do you see?

Explore the expansion of the United States from 1840 to 1920 through maps, historical figures, and key arguments for and against imperialism. Learn about the symbols and characters that shaped this period of American history.

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Write down your response: What images/symbols/characters do you see?

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  1. Write down your response: • What images/symbols/characters do you see? • What is the message of this document?

  2. Write down your thoughts to the following question: • Does “might” make “right”? • Examples of when it does… • Examples of when it doesn’t… • How & why did the United States expand from 1840-1920?

  3. Let’s Color!!! • How & why did the United States expand from 1840-1920? • Maps of the American Empire • American expansion into the West and around the globe • Identify & date • Textbooks, phones (use for good – not evil)

  4. Albert Beveridge • Alfred T. Mahan • Frederick Jackson Turner • William Jennings Bryan • Carl Schurz

  5. American Imperialism Reasons For Reasons Against

  6. Imperialism Vocab • Imperialism • Manifest Destiny • Social Darwinism • Monroe Doctrine

  7. First Four: CartoonWhat do you see? What is the message?

  8. First Four • Please have a seat. • Get out your First Four tracker, your notes, and your major themes sheet. • Compare/Contrast – Identify three specific areas in which the two documents are similar and/or different in the context of our topic.

  9. America Becomes a Colonial Power

  10. Why did America join the imperialist club at the end of the 19c?

  11. 1. Commercial/Business Interests U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908

  12. 1. Commercial/Business Interests American Foreign Trade:1870-1914

  13. 2. Military/Strategic Interests Alfred T. Mahan  The Influence of Sea Power on History: 1660-1783

  14. 3. Social Darwinist Thinking The White Man’sBurden The Hierarchyof Race

  15. 4. Religious/Missionary Interests American Missionariesin China, 1905

  16. 5. Closing the American Frontier Frederick Jackson Turner: The Frontier Thesis

  17. Imperialism Quiz • Write a brief paragraph explaining three significant arguments against America becoming an imperial power. Reference specific people, terms, and/or specific arguments from the texts and class discussion.

  18. Imperialism Quiz • Write a brief paragraph explaining three significant reasons America sought to become an imperial power. Reference specific people, terms, and/or specific arguments from the texts and class discussion.

  19. Annexation of Hawaii • Read & annotate the document - 8 minutes • Discuss the questions with your group – 8 minutes • Create a cartoon/skit/chart/etc. to show the most significant thing that this shows us about the US in the Age of Imperialism – 8 minutes • Present to the class

  20. How did the US become an imperial power in the late 1800s? • Examples of American Imperialism 1853-1898 • Causes of the Spanish-American War

  21. Japan

  22. Commodore Matthew Perry Opens Up Japan: 1853 The Japanese View of Commodore Perry

  23. Treaty of Kanagawa: 1854

  24. Gentleman’s Agreement: 1908 • Theodore Roosevelt • Japan agreed to limit workers • going to the US • The U.S. government got the school board of San Francisco to stop segregation of Asians in separate schools • 1908  Root-Takahira Agreement.

  25. Alaska

  26. “Seward’s Folly”: 1867 $7.2 million

  27. “Seward’s Icebox”: 1867

  28. Hawaii: "Crossroads of the Pacific"

  29. U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s

  30. U. S. View of Hawaiians • Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in 1849 by virtue of economic treaties.

  31. Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii for the Hawaiians!

  32. U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii • 1893 –American businessmen backed an uprising against Queen Liliuokalani. • Sanford Ballard Dole proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.

  33. To The Victor Belongs the Spoils Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898

  34. Cuba

  35. The Imperialist Taylor

  36. Spanish Misrule in Cuba

  37. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

  38. “Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism Joseph Pulitzer Hearst to Frederick Remington:You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war! William Randolph Hearst

  39. Remember the Maineand to Hell with Spain! Funeral for Maine victims in Havana

  40. De Lôme Letter • Dupuy de Lôme, Spanish Ambassador to the U.S. • Criticized President McKinley as weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, besides being a would-be politician who tries to leave a door open behind himself while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.

  41. The War Debate • Intervention? • McKinley’s War Message • Teller Amendment: "... hereby disclaims any disposition of intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.”

  42. The Spanish-American War (1898):“That Splendid Little War”

  43. The “Rough Riders”

  44. The Philippines

  45. The Spanish-American War (1898):“That Splendid Little War”

  46. Dewey Captures Manila!

  47. Is He To Be a Despot?

  48. Emilio Aguinaldo • Leader of the Filipino Uprising. • July 4, 1946: Philippine independence

  49. William H. Taft, 1stGov.-General of the Philippines Great administrator.

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