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 1893 Worst 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 Navy Naval War College Address, 1897

Cuban Revolt beginning in 1895 José Marti

“Yellow Journalism” William Randolph Hearst Owner and editor New York Journal Joseph Pulitzer Owner 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