Unit 7: Turn of the Century Imperialism Unit 7: Turn of the Century

“Declined with Thanks”

“Well, I hardly know which to take first”

American Anti-Imperialist League

Roosevelt the “jingo” “(McKinley) has no more backbone than a chocolate éclair.”

“The Duty of the Hour”

Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

William Randolph Hearst Yellow Journalism Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst

The de Lôme Letter “(McKinley) is weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, besides being a would-be politician who tries to leave a door open behind himself while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.

Sinking of the Maine

The “Rough Riders”

McKinley on Annexing the Philippines When I next realized that the Philippines had dropped into our laps I confess I did not know what to do with them. . . And one night late it came to me this way. . .1) That we could not give them back to Spain- that would be cowardly and dishonorable; 2) that we could not turn them over to France and Germany-our commercial rivals in the Orient-that would be bad business and discreditable; 3) that we not leave them to themselves-they are unfit for self-government-and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain's wars; and 4) that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow-men for whom Christ also died.

“Kill Every One over Ten”

“School Begins”

“Cuba Libre”

The Boxer Rebellion (1900)

The “Open Door” Policy

Election of 1900

The Foreign Policies of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson A New World Power The Foreign Policies of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson

The Panama Canal

The Roosevelt Corollary Chronic wrongdoing… may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

Treaty of Portsmouth

Gentlemen’s Agreement

The Great White Fleet

See the Point? The Pen is Mightier than the Big Stick

Pancho Villa

Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”

US Interventions in Latin America: 1898-1933

True or False: Imperialism In the 1890s, the United States departed from its previous foreign policy of isolationism. American territorial expansion of the early nineteenth century was dictated by the economic interests of her farmers; her expansion at the end of the century was dictated by the economic interests of her industries. Antebellum American expansionism was inspired in part by religious fervor; late nineteenth century imperialism was not.