AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Expansionism v. Imperialism Formal v. Informal Empire

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD American Foreign Policy Before 1890s Why Overseas Involvement in the 1890s –Closing of the internal frontier –Desire to acquire overseas markets –Racial nationalism (“civilizing mission”) A progressive urge? –Prestige factor Alfred Thayer Mahan

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Spanish-American War: an important break with previous patterns of U.S. expansion Alaska and Hawai’i Cuba and the Spanish-American War of 1898 –Cuban revolution (“Butcher Weyler”)

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine – February 1898 Why did the U.S. get involved in Cuba in 1898?

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Teller Amendment “A splendid little war”

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Acquisition of colonies: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines Anti-Imperialist League

AMERICA ENTERS THE WOLRD Platt Amendment and Cuban independence Filipino-American War –Emilio Aguinaldo –Insular Cases (1901) –Gen. Jacob Smith

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD Creating a New American Foreign Policy –Teddy Roosevelt and Big-Stick Diplomacy in Latin America Panama and the Canal Zone Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD –William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy –Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy