1. The Imperial Republic
Chapter 20

2. Reasons for Imperialism:
The New Manifest Destiny
Reasons for Imperialism:

3. Close of the Frontier:
Worry about resources
Need alternative sources abroad

4. Businessmen looking for new markets overseas
Panic of 1893:
Businessmen looking for new markets overseas $

5. Exports:
$395,000,000
$857,000,000
$1,400,000,000

6. Alfred Thayer Mahan

7. The Influence of Sea Power upon History

8. US needs:
*Productive Economy *Foreign Commerce *Strong Merchant Marine *Navy to Protect Trade Routes *Colonies for Raw Materials

9. Since US bound by two oceans:
*Must become a sea power
*CANAL!!!

10. Albert Jeremiah Beveridge

11. Steps to Imperialism

12. ALASKA
*1867
*William Seward
*$7.2 million
*called Seward’s Folly

13. Midway 1867
Samoa 1878
Congress stops bid to get:
Virgin Islands Santo Domingo

14. Hawaii

15. *US traders come in 1790
*missionaries follow 1820
*Planters come for sugar and fruits 1835

16. *1875 Trade agreement
*1887 US gets rights to Pearl Harbor
*Planters becoming economically powerful

17. Queen Liliuokalani

18. 1893 Planters lead Revolt against Queen
5% of population
Get help from Marines

19. Sanford

20. *Treaty of Annexation sent to the Senate by Harrison -
blocked in Senate by Democrats

21. *Republic of Hawaii declared 1894
*McKinley gets treaty accepted in 1898 – worried about Great Britain

23. Colony of Spain since Columbus

24. *Cubans begin revolt in 1868
*new revolt starts in 1895
*Guerrilla war against economy
*US has $50 million invested

25. General Weyler
“The Butcher”

26. Yellow Journalism

27. William Randolph Hearst

28. Joseph Pulitzer

30.                                                                        
USS Maine

31. USS Maine
February 15,1898
252 killed

32. Teller Amendment-US would not take permanent control over Cuba
April 25, 1898
Congress declares WAR!
Teller Amendment-US would not take permanent control over Cuba

33. John Hay
Sec. Of State
“A splendid little war”

35. Spanish-American War
460 killed
5200 die of disease

36. Problems:
*Raise troops
*Supply troops
*Transport Troops

38. Admiral George Dewey

39. Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Theodore Roosevelt

40. Battle of Manila Bay

41. May 1, 1898
Spanish casualties: 381
American casualties:
1 killed
8 wounded

42. 1st US Volunteer Cavalry
Commander Leonard Wood

43. 2nd in command:

44. Rough Riders lead charges up San Juan and Kettle Hills
Spanish fleet destroyed fleeing Santiago Harbor
Spanish surrender July 16

46. San Juan Hill

47. Treaty of Paris 1898
*Cuba independent *Guam & Puerto Rico to US *Philippines to US *US to pay $20 million

48. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil
9th Earl & 3rd Marques of Salisbury

49. The Anti-Imperialists
(Goo-Goos)

50. Andrew Carnegie

51. Mark Twain

52. Samuel Gompers

53. Grover Cleveland

54. Carl Schurz

55. Charles W. Eliot President of Harvard
Called Lodge & TR degenerated sons of Harvard

56. Thomas Reed
Speaker of the House
“Czar” Reed

57. William Jennings Bryan

58. Reasons for Anti-Imperialism:
*Against American Ideals
*Cost
*Lack of Benefits
*Large Army & Navy
*Race

59. Imperialists
(Jingoes)

60. “We don’t want to fight, but by jingo, if we do,
We’ve got the men, we’ve got the ships, we’ve got the money too.”
Popular saying in England 1878

61. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

62. AP sign-up
February 1-27
Alfred Thayer Mahan

63. Brooks Adams

64. Henry Adams

65. Elihu Root

66. Theodore Roosevelt

67. Reasons for Imperialism
*Economic Benefits
*Defense
*Altruism
*Supremacy
*Racism

68. Bryan tells Democratic Senators to vote for Treaty of Paris
WHY????
Needs new campaign issue for 1900

69. *Bryan runs for Democrats
Election of 1900
*Bryan runs for Democrats
*Makes the Philippines the issue
Bryan

70. Bryan %
McKinley %

71. Why did Bryan lose?
*Many like Imperialism
*Growing economic prosperity
*Republicans add a personality stronger than Bryan

72. Teddy is VP

73. Cuba *Army stays until 1902 *Commanded by Leonard Wood
*Builds roads, hospitals, schools

74. Platt Amendment
*US pressures Cuba to add to their Constitution
can’t make treaties with other countries
US gets naval station

75. - US has right to intervene to preserve independence
- Cuba can’t have debt above ability to pay back

77. Why is America so concerned about Cuba?
Canal

79. Why do the Goo Goos lose? Base too narrow Not consistent
Look backwards, Jingos forward
Out of touch
Schurz TR
Hoar Lodge 48
Norton Beveridge 36

80. Philippine War
4300 US deaths
50,000 Filipinos

81. Emilio Aguinaldo

82. General Arthur MacArthur

83. Mac Arthur feels more severe methods needed
Execute prisoners
Put people in camps

84. The Butcher

85. William Howard Taft names Governor of Philippines
Will get Philippines ready for independence
July 4, 1946

86. William Howard Taft

87. Open Door Policy

88. Boxer Rebellion