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AmericaBecomes
an ImperialPower
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1. Social Darwinist Thinking
The Hierarchyof Race
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1. Social Darwinist Thinking
The White Man’sBurden
Take up the White Man’s burden-
Send forth the best ye breed-Go bind your sons in 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.
Rudyard Kipling 1899
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2. Religious/Missionary Interests
American Missionaries
in China, 1905
• Reverend Josiah Strong became a foundational figure in the Social Gospel Movement, that fused the ideas of Social Darwinism and American Protestantism.
• His book, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis 1885, sparked Amer. imperialism abroad.
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3. Commercial/Business Interests
Economic depression of 1893 necessitated expansion to further trade
and rescue economy.
YEAR
RAIL PRODUCTIONSTEEL
PRODUCTIONLOCOMOTIVES
PRODUCEDFREIGHT CARS
PRODUCED(millions long tons) (million long tons)
1889 1.5 3.4 1,860 70,6001890 1.9 4.3 2,300 103,8001891 1.3 3.9 2,165 95,5001892 1.6 4.9 2,012 98,1001893 1.1 4 2,011 56,9001894 1 4.4 695 17,0001895 1.3 6.1 1,101 38,1001896 1.1 5.3 1,175 51,2001897 1.6 7.2 1,251 43,6001898 2 8.9 1,875 99,8001899 2.3 10.6 2,475 119,9001900 2.4 10.2 3,153 115,600
Source: Historical Statistics of the U.S., 1790-
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3. Commercial/Business Interests
U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908
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American Foreign Trade:
1870-1914
3. Commercial/Business Interests
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4. Military/Strategic InterestsThe fear the
the U.S. was falling
behind the rest of
Europe in its turn of
the century colonial binge.
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4. Military/Strategic Interests
Alfred T. Mahan The Influence of Sea Power on History: 1660-1783
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5. Closing the American Frontier Frederick
Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis at the 1893 World’s
Columbian Expo in Chicago
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Alaska
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“Seward’s Icebox”: 1867
$7.2 million dollars
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“Seward’s Folly”: 1867
A “folly” for whom?
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Hawaii:"Crossroads
of thePacific"
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U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii
Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s
“commerce follows the missionary” Jos. Strong
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U. S. View of Hawaiians
Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in 1849
by virtue of economic treaties.
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Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani
Hawaii for the Hawaiians!
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U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii
1875 – Reciprocity Treaty
1890 – McKinley Tariff
1893 – Americanbusinessmen backed anuprising against Queen Liliuokalani.
Sanford Ballard Dole proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.
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To The Victor Belongs the Spoils
Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898
Not until McKinley was Pres.
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Venezuela
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British Imperialism in Caribbean
• Gold is found on border of Venezuela & British Guiana in 1890s
• President Cleveland saw solution to bimetal crisis
• Congress pushed for a firm response to Britain.
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Monroe Doctrine alive and well• Cleveland Sec. of
State Richard Olney reasserts the Monroe Doctrine to GB & suggests arbitration
• PM Lord Salisbury rejects Monroe Doctrine & offer
• Cleveland all but threatens GB & they submit to arbitration.
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Cuba
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The Imperialist Taylor
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Spanish Misrule in Cuba
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Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy
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Cuban Revolutionary Jose Marti• Exiled Cuban
journalist who worked tirelessly to bring freedom and democracy to Cuba
• Known as the “Apostle of Cuban Independence”
• Marti rallied the support of Cuban émigré community in America to pressure the government to come to the aid of the Cubans.
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“Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst to Frederick Remington: “You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war!”
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Theodore Roosevelt
Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the McKinley administration.
Imperialist and American nationalist.
Criticized PresidentMcKinley as having the backbone of a chocolate éclair!
Resigns his position to fight in Cuba. (not before sending Adm. Dewey from Hong Kong to Manilla Bay on Feb. 25th)
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The “Rough Riders”
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De Lôme LetterDupuy de Lôme, SpanishAmbassador to the U.S.
Criticized PresidentMcKinley as weak and abidder for the admirationof the crowd, besidesbeing a would-be politicianwho tries to leave a dooropen behind himself whilekeeping on good termswith the jingoes of hisparty.
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Remember the Maineand to Hell with Spain!
Funeral for Maine victims in Havana
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The Spanish-American War (1898):
“That Splendid Little War”
How prepared was the US for war?
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ThePhilippines
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The Spanish-American War (1898):
“That Splendid Little War”
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Dewey Captures Manila!
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Emilio Aguinaldo
Leader of the FilipinoUprising.
July 4, 1946:Philippine independence
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William H. Taft, 1stGov. General of the Philippines
Great administrator.