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Imperialism. Spanish-American War: The Carribean, 1898. USS Maine in Havana, 1898. William Randolph Hearst newspapers promoted Spanish-American War, 1898. Hearst and Pulitzer make war. Spanish-American War: The Caribbean, 1898. Spanish-American War: The Pacific, 1898.
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William Randolph Hearst newspapers promoted Spanish-American War, 1898
Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders,” drawing depicts no black troops
Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden” Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's burden! Have done with childish days-- The lightly-proffered laurel, The easy ungrudged praise: Comes now, to search your manhood Through all the thankless years, Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom, The judgment of your peers.
Territories acquired in 1898 The Philippines: achieved independence in 1946Hawaii: traditional territory, admitted as a state in 1959Guam: “unincorporated” territory, administered by US Navy until 1950Puerto Rico: “Commonwealth,” US citizenship extended in 1917 but cannot elect US Presidents
Mark Twain, the League’s Vice-President in 1901-1910, as a savage, Minneapolis Journal
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League: Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League: Grover Cleveland, former president
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League: Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League: Ida B. Wells-Barnett, anti-lynching reformer and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, founded in 1909)
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League: Jane Addams, founder of the Hull House, co-founder of the NAACP
U.S. Presidents, 1877-Present Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881 James Garfield, 1881 Chester Arthur, 1881-1885 Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1993 Grover Cleveland, 1993-1997 William McKinley, 1897-1901 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 William H. Taft, 1909-1913 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 Warren Harding, 1921-1923 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Harry Truman, 1945-1953 Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961 John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson, 1963-1969 Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 Gerald Ford, 1974-77 Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989 George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 William J. Clinton, 1993-2001 George W. Bush, 2001-present