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American Imperialism
American Activism Abroad
Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893
• America’s unique development rooted in the frontier past
• Vast expanse of “free” land
• Reaching Pacific meant looking overseas for “frontier”
• Attacked immigration from S. & E. Europe
• Dollar Diplomacy• http://www.schooltube.com/video/3c0f20ffce0fca65c463/Doll
ar-Diplomacy
Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Influence of Seapower upon History
• Seapower essential to national greatness
• Britain a prime example
• McKinley & Roosevelt
• Expand overseas – bases for navy – protect Commerce
Acquisition of Hawaiihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeOj9Dt75pQ
• Hawaiian League – 400 members, mostly American businessmen
• Bayonet Constitution 1886 – curtailed monarch’s power
• 1893 Bloodless coup – Queen steps down (American Troops)
• 1898 U.S. annexed
Sanford Dole
Queen Lili’uokalani
Cuba in Cartoons 1890s
American self image
Jose Marti
The Splendid Little War: 1898http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JYFJU3ZJLM
• Spanish-American Cuban War over in 4 months
• Yellow journalism – “You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.” Hearst
U.S.S. MaineRough Riders
U.S. Gains
America: An imperial power
PHILIPPINESHTTP://GLENCOE.COM/SITES/COMMON_ASSETS/SOCIALSTUDIES/IN_MOTION_10/TAV/TAV_499.SWF
•The United States, by title of purchase in the 1898 Treaty of Paris, bought the Philippines from Spain, for US$20,000,000. •It also bought itself a war, in the name of Benevolent Assimilation. •The war lasted three years, and cost the Americans 10,000 casualties and US $600 million. Some 16,000 soldiers were killed in battle. About 200,000 Filipino civilians succumbed to pestilence, disease, and crossfire during the war.
Emilio AguinaldoFilipino Rebel Leader
Open Door – Asia: 400,000,000 potential
consumers in China alone
John Hay & the Open Door Policy 1899
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wFjjdMHv2A
• All nations to be allowed access to Chinese market
• All nations were to have equal trading rights
• Europeans had already carved up China
Boxer Rebellion - 1900
A man, a plan, a canal, Panamahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw5NMo_u-oA
Acquiring the rights•Roosevelt & Panamanian business interests conspire•Colombians bribed to lay down weapons•1903 Panamanian revolt•U.S. cruiser right off shore•Hay-Buneau-Varilla treaty 10 million to Panamanians – 10 mile swath renewable 99 year lease
•French precede Americans – lose money & lives•Americans acquire rights for 40 million•Start negotiating with Colombia•Offered 10 mil. Cash and ¼ million annually•Colombia wanted more
Building the Canal
• 1906-1909 preliminary construction, surveys, disease control (1/3 of the French force died of Yellow Fever)
Building the Canal
Thousands of West Indian LaborersT.R. visits the Canal Zone
45,000 Recruited Contract Workers
Roosevelt Corollary
U.S. Intervention in Latin America
Green = protectorate
Blue = occupation