IMPERIALISM The economic and political domination of a strong nation over other weaker nations.

NATIONALISM: pride in one’s nation MANIFEST DESTINY: the responsibility of whites in the U.S. to civilize and bring democracy to the unsettled west of North America Americans believed it was also the United States’ destiny to civilize and bring democracy to the rest of the world.

Social Darwinism: nations competed with each other politically, economically, and militarily, and that only the strongest would survive.

Americans began expanding their nation by looking west in the early days of the Republic, so when they began looking to expand overseas, they looked west, toward the Pacific. Expansions in the Pacific: Japan 2. Hawaii 3. Latin America

As both the American people and their government became more willing to risk war in defense of American interests overseas, support for building a large modern navy began to grow.

The Spanish-American War VS

The Spanish-American War The involvement of the US in the Spanish-American War marked America’s emergence as a world power. There were several reasons for the US to declare war on Spain: 1. Pressures from domestic tensions at home and expanding capitalism pushed Americans to find new markets. 2. The humanitarian desire to support the rights of Cubans against an oppressive Spanish regime. 3. The push for increased naval power. 4. Yellow journalism Intensified by the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in the Havana (Cuba) Harbor

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OWNED by the United States of America GUAM PHILIPPINES PUERTO RICO

CONTROLLED by the United States of America CUBA

The Spanish-American War The Treaty of Paris included the Teller Amendment, which promised that the US would allow for Cuban independence In 1900, when Cubans began drafting their constitution, the US continued to exercise their influence by insisting the Platt Amendment be included.

The Spanish-American War “And one night late it came to me this way…that we could not give them back to Spain…that would be cowardly and dishonorable; that we could not turn them over to France or Germany…that would be bad for business and discreditable; that we could not leave them to themselves…they were unfit for self-government…and that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and to uplift and civilize and Christianize them.” -President William McKinley

The Spanish-American War The Supreme Court ruled collectively in the Insular cases that the Constitution did not follow the flag, so subject peoples did not have the same rights as citizens of the United States The perception of the United States among subject peoples therefore changed from a champion of liberty to a colonial power

The Spanish-American War