1. Write down your response:
What images/symbols/characters do you see?
What is the message of this document?

2. Write down your thoughts to the following question:
Does “might” make “right”?
Examples of when it does…
Examples of when it doesn’t…
How & why did the United States expand from ?

3. Let’s Color!!! How & why did the United States expand from 1840-1920?
Maps of the American Empire
American expansion into the West and around the globe
Identify & date
Textbooks, phones (use for good – not evil)

4. Frederick Jackson Turner William Jennings Bryan
Albert Beveridge
Alfred T. Mahan
Frederick Jackson Turner
William Jennings Bryan
Carl Schurz

5. American Imperialism
Reasons For
Reasons Against

6. Imperialism Vocab Imperialism Manifest Destiny Social Darwinism
Monroe Doctrine

8. First Four: Cartoon What do you see? What is the message?

9. First Four Please have a seat.
Get out your First Four tracker, your notes, and your major themes sheet.
Compare/Contrast – Identify three specific areas in which the two documents are similar and/or different in the context of our topic.

10. America
Becomes
a Colonial
Power

11. Why did America
join the imperialist
club at the end
of the 19c?

12. 1. Commercial/Business Interests U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869-1908

13. 1. Commercial/Business Interests American Foreign Trade: 1870-1914

14. 2. Military/Strategic Interests
Alfred T. Mahan  The Influence of Sea Power on History:

15. 3. Social Darwinist Thinking
The White Man’s Burden
The Hierarchy of Race

16. 4. Religious/Missionary Interests American Missionaries in China, 1905

17. 5. Closing the American Frontier
Frederick Jackson Turner: The Frontier Thesis

18. Imperialism Quiz
Write a brief paragraph explaining three significant arguments against America becoming an imperial power. Reference specific people, terms, and/or specific arguments from the texts and class discussion.

19. Imperialism Quiz
Write a brief paragraph explaining three significant reasons America sought to become an imperial power. Reference specific people, terms, and/or specific arguments from the texts and class discussion.

20. Annexation of Hawaii Read & annotate the document - 8 minutes
Discuss the questions with your group – 8 minutes
Create a cartoon/skit/chart/etc. to show the most significant thing that this shows us about the US in the Age of Imperialism – 8 minutes
Present to the class

21. How did the US become an imperial power in the late 1800s?
Examples of American Imperialism
Causes of the Spanish-American War

22. Japan

23. Commodore Matthew Perry Opens Up Japan: 1853
The Japanese View of Commodore Perry

24. Treaty of Kanagawa: 1854

25. Gentleman’s Agreement: 1908
Theodore Roosevelt
Japan agreed to limit workers
going to the US
The U.S. government got the school board of San Francisco to stop segregation of Asians in separate schools
1908  Root-Takahira Agreement.

26. Alaska

27. “Seward’s Folly”: 1867
$7.2 million

28. “Seward’s Icebox”: 1867

29. Hawaii:
"Crossroads
of the
Pacific"

30. U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii
Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s

31. U. S. View of Hawaiians
Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in by virtue of economic treaties.

32. Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii for the Hawaiians!

33. U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii
1893 – American businessmen backed an uprising against Queen Liliuokalani.
Sanford Ballard Dole proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.

34. To The Victor Belongs the Spoils
Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898

35. Cuba

36. The Imperialist Taylor

37. Spanish Misrule in Cuba

38. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

39. “Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism William Randolph Hearst
Joseph Pulitzer
Hearst to Frederick Remington: You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war!
William Randolph Hearst

40. Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain!
Funeral for Maine victims in Havana

41. De Lôme Letter Dupuy de Lôme, Spanish Ambassador to the U.S.
Criticized President McKinley as 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.

42. The War Debate Intervention? McKinley’s War Message Teller Amendment:
"... hereby disclaims any disposition of intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for pacification thereof, and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.”

43. The Spanish-American War (1898): “That Splendid Little War”

44. The “Rough Riders”

45. The
Philippines

46. The Spanish-American War (1898): “That Splendid Little War”

47. Dewey Captures Manila!

48. Is He To Be a Despot?

49. Emilio Aguinaldo July 4, 1946: Philippine independence
Leader of the Filipino Uprising.
July 4, 1946: Philippine independence

50. William H. Taft, 1st Gov.-General of the Philippines
Great administrator.

51. Our “Sphere of Influence”

52. The Treaty of Paris: 1898 Cuba was freed from Spanish rule.
Spain gave up Puerto Rico and the island of Guam.
The U. S. paid Spain $20 mil. for the Philippines.
The U. S. becomes an imperial power!

53. The American Anti-Imperialist League
Founded in 1899.
Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, William James, and William Jennings Bryan among the leaders.
Campaigned against the annexation of the Philippines and other acts of imperialism.

54. Cuban Independence? Platt Amendment (1903) Senator Orville Platt
1. Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence.
2. The U.S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent govt.
3. Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U.S. for naval and coaling station.
4. Cuba must not build up an excessive public debt.

55. DILEMNA--Did
U. S. citizenship
follow the flag??

56. Puerto
Rico

57. Puerto Rico: 1898
Foraker Act – set up civilian government with limited autonomy.
 the Insular Cases.
1917 – Jones Act – US Citizenship

58. Panama

59. Panama: The King’s Crown
A canal – why?
France, GB, US?
Panama, Columbia &
Theodore Roosevelt

60. TR in Panama (Construction begins in 1904)
Panama Canal
TR in Panama (Construction begins in 1904)

61. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: 1905
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 .

62. China

63. Stereotypes of the Chinese Immigrant
Oriental [Chinese] Exclusion Act, 1887

64. The Boxer Rebellion: 1900 The Peaceful Harmonious Fists.
“55 Days at Peking.”

65. The Open Door Policy

66. The Open Door Policy Secretary John Hay.
Give all nations equal access to trade in China.
Guaranteed that China would NOT be taken over by any one foreign power.

67. America's
New
Role

68. The Cares of a Growing Family

69. Speak Softly, But Carry a Big Stick!

70. Constable of the World

71. Nobel Peace Prize for Teddy
Treaty of Portsmouth: 1905
Nobel Peace Prize for Teddy

72. The Great White Fleet: 1907

73. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Improve financial opportunities for American businesses.
Use private capital to further U. S. interests overseas.
Therefore, the U.S. should create stability and order abroad that would best promote America’s commercial interests.

74. Mexico

75. The Mexican Revolution: 1910s
Victoriano Huerta seizes control of Mexico and puts Madero in prison where he was murdered.
Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and Alvaro Obregon fought against Hueta.
The U.S. also got involved by occupying Veracruz and Huerta fled the country.
Eventually Carranza would gain power in Mexico.

76. The Mexican Revolution: 1910s
Emiliano Zapata
Pancho Villa
Venustiano Carranza
Porfirio Diaz
Francisco I Madero

77. Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”
The U. S. should be the conscience of the world.
Spread democracy.
Promote peace.
Condemn colonialism.

78. Searching for Banditos
General John J. Pershing with Pancho Villa in 1914.

79. U. S. Global Investments & Investments in Latin America, 1914

80. U. S. Interventions in Latin America: 1898-1920s

81. One of the “Boys?”

82. America as a Pacific Power

83. What the U. S. Has Fought For