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Rebellion & Resistance

Rebellion & Resistance. Meet The New Boss. Cuba, 1900, still occupied by US Forces. Native Cubans try and write a constitution for Independent Cuba.

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Rebellion & Resistance

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  1. Rebellion & Resistance

  2. Meet The New Boss • Cuba, 1900, still occupied by US Forces. Native Cubans try and write a constitution for Independent Cuba. • US says no, Cubans have to add the Platt Amendment. Giving US the right to intervene in Cuba, forbidding Cuba from going into Debt, allowing US to buy Naval Stations. • Cubans, angry, accept.

  3. Same as the Old Boss • The US Annexes the Philippines Directly. • Pilipino Rebel Leader Emilio Aguinaldo Says: “Not Cool Man!” Starts Rebellion. • US Sends Troops to Suppress, puts Pilipino in concentration camps. • Massacres happen on both sides

  4. Uplifting • US wins the main war in the Philippines in 1902. Small rebellions continue until 1913. • President McKinley had said in 1899: “that we not leave them to themselves — they are unfit for self-government… there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them.” • The War Costs US 400,000,000$

  5. Still Under Control • US Military Occupied Puerto Rico a la Cuba. • Protests • Civil Government returns 1901, Annexed by US. • Insular Cases: US Constitution Doesn’t fully apply to captured territories. • US Citizenship granted to Puerto Ricans in 1917.

  6. Saying No • Many Americans didn’t like Imperialism. • American Anti-Imperialism League Formed, contains members such as former pres Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Industrialist Andrew Carnegie & union leader Samuel Gompers. • McKinley wins re-election against anti Imperialist William Jennings Bryant, 1900.

  7. A New Face • McKinley, during the Election of 1900, Picks a new VP, the Hero of San Juan Hill, Theodore Roosevelt, who is all of 42. • A New Era is about to begin.

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