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

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders,” photo

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.

“The White Man’s Burden,” Judge, 1890s

Occupation as an educational project

President William McKinley “civilizing” Filipinos

Territories acquired in 1898

The Philippines: achieved independence in 1946

Hawaii: traditional territory, admitted as a state in 1959

Guam: “unincorporated” territory, administered by US Navy until 1950

Puerto 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, 1877-1881James Garfield, 1881Chester Arthur, 1881-1885Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1993Grover Cleveland, 1993-1997William McKinley, 1897-1901Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909William H. Taft, 1909-1913Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921Warren Harding, 1921-1923Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945Harry Truman, 1945-1953Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963Lyndon Johnson, 1963-1969Richard Nixon, 1969-1974Gerald Ford, 1974-77Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993William J. Clinton, 1993-2001George W. Bush, 2001-present