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

Frederick Jackson Turner

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.

Panic of 1893Worst industrial depression up to that point

President Grover Cleveland

America and the Pacific

Sanford B. Dole

Economic interests predate the Civil War

Missionary impulse in Pacific and Asia

Trade

The Hawaiian Revolt, 1893

Overthrow of Queen Lili’oukalani

Petition for annexation to United States

Opposed by Cleveland

The United States and the Pacific to 1898

Global Rivalries—the Age of the “New Imperialism”

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 NavyNaval War College Address, 1897

Cuban Revolt beginning in 1895

JoséMarti

“Yellow Journalism”

William Randolph HearstOwner and editor New York Journal

Joseph PulitzerOwner and editor New York World

As if designed for sensationalism

Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau

A LEAP TO

ARMS

….a splendid little war.

John Hay, 1898