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 , 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, James Garfield, 1881 Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, 2001-present