1. HIGHLIGHT THE ARITCLE AND TAKE NOTES AS YOU READ. BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN U
HIGHLIGHT THE ARITCLE AND TAKE NOTES AS YOU READ. BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN U.S. INVLOVEMENT IN CUBA AND IN THE PHILLIPINES.
JUSTIFICATION FOR IMPERIALISM
CUBA
PHILIPPINES
ANTI-IMPERIALIST ARGUMENT

2. From 1890 to 1914, the United States expanded its role in world affairs and gained new overseas colonies

3. What’s happening to Uncle Sam??? ….
What is the symbolism???

4. When the USA was a new nation, it was limited to 13 states in territory east of the Mississippi River…
…George Washington promoted neutrality and warned against alliances with European nations

5. By the 1820s, the U.S. purchased Louisiana, “won” the War of 1812, gained Florida, and was no longer an infant nation…
… In 1823 President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine asserting neutrality but that the U.S. would protect the western hemisphere from European influence

6. In the 1840s, President James Polk used an aggressive foreign policy (including treaties, purchases, and war with Mexico) to gain all lands to the Pacific Ocean and fulfill America’s Manifest Destiny

7. During the Gilded Age, the United States emerged as an imperial power by gaining Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and leading construction of the Panama Canal

8. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, America gained new western territories, but remained neutral in European affairs…

9. …during the Gilded Age, the United States gained overseas territories and thought of itself as an equal power to European nations

10. IMPERIALISM

12. Imperialism: the policy of maintaining an empire by influencing the social, political, and economic lives of colonial territories

13. Commercialism
American industry grew so large that companies needed new sources of raw materials and overseas markets to sell their products

14. Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest
Belief that Americans (Anglo-Saxons) have a god-given superiority

15. World tour of the “Great White Fleet”
Militarism
Need naval bases
To protect foreign territories & their resources
World tour of the “Great White Fleet”
Promoted by Captain Alfred T. Mahan

16. Racism
Belief that other races are unfit for self-government
“The White Man’s Burden”

17. …also known as the White Man’s Burden
White Man’s Burden By Rudyard Kipling (1899)
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-- In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain To seek another's profit, And work another's gain.

18. US responsibility to “civilize” the “inferior races”
Humanitarianism
Need to Christianize, democratize, educate foreign lands
US responsibility to “civilize” the “inferior races”

20. Nationalism (Jingoism)
extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy.
Need to display pride and power to the world
Can show this through controlling new territories (“colonies”)

21. Spanish-American War

22. CAUSES US gov seeks bases in Caribbean and Pacific
Cubans sought independence
General “Butcher” Weyler” put Cubans in concentration camps
Thousands dies of disease/starvation
Americans invested $50 million in sugar plantations
Spanish attack American plantations
US sends USS Maine… ship explodes!
William Randolph Hearst
Editor of New York Morning Journal – like the National Enquirer
yellow journalist – exaggerated/false stories
“you furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”
“Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

23. CAUSES US gov seeks bases in Caribbean and Pacific
Cubans sought independence
General “Butcher” Weyler put Cubans in concentration camps
Thousands dies of disease/starvation
Americans invested $50 million in sugar plantations
Spanish attack American plantations
US sends USS Maine… ship explodes!
William Randolph Hearst
Editor of New York Morning Journal – like the National Enquirer
yellow journalist – exaggerated/false stories
“you furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”
“Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

24. CAUSES US gov seeks bases in Caribbean and Pacific
Cubans sought independence
General “Butcher” Weyler put Cubans in concentration camps
Thousands dies of disease/starvation
Americans invested $50 million in sugar plantations
Spanish attack American plantations
US sends USS Maine… ship explodes!
William Randolph Hearst
Editor of New York Morning Journal – like the National Enquirer
yellow journalist – exaggerated/false stories
“you furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”
“Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

25. CAUSES US gov seeks bases in Caribbean and Pacific
Cubans sought independence
General “Butcher” Weyler put Cubans in concentration camps
Thousands dies of disease/starvation
Americans invested $50 million in sugar plantations
Spanish attack American plantations
US sends USS Maine… ship explodes!
William Randolph Hearst
Editor of New York Morning Journal – like the National Enquirer
yellow journalist – exaggerated/false stories
“you furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”
“Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

26. CAUSES US gov seeks bases in Caribbean and Pacific
Cubans sought independence
General “Butcher” Weyler put Cubans in concentration camps
Thousands dies of disease /starvation
Americans invested $50 million in sugar plantations
Spanish attack American plantations
US sends USS Maine… ship explodes!
William Randolph Hearst
Editor of New York Morning Journal – like the National Enquirer
yellow journalist – exaggerated/false stories
“you furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”
“Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!”

27. William Randolph Hearst
“Yellow Journalism”: exaggerated reports in order to sell newspapers and persuade the audience
Joseph Pulitzer
Hearst to Frederick Remington: You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war!
William Randolph Hearst

28. How do you accomplish imperialism?
Why do you want territory?
Why is Cuba fighting with Spain? Why do we care?
What events led to the US getting involved?
What happened during the war?
Who opposed it and why?
Why did this all of sudden start talking about the Philippines?
Why do we want to be involved with the Philippines?
Why are people upset about the Philippines?
What ends this conflict?
What do we get when it ends?
What’s up with Cuba?
How did the conflict in the Philippines conclude?

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

30. “Splendid little war” War = 114 days
Rough Riders = cavalry soldiers… cowboys, police, athletes, ex-convicts
Destroy/capture ALL Spanish ships in Philippines (Manila Bay)
Aided by Filipinos seeking independence

31. “Splendid little war” War = 114 days
Rough Riders = cavalry soldiers… cowboys, police, athletes, ex-convicts (T. Roosevelt becomes famous)
Destroy/capture ALL Spanish ships in Philippines (Manila Bay)
Aided by Filipinos seeking independence

33. “Splendid little war” War = 114 days
Rough Riders = cavalry soldiers… cowboys, police, athletes, ex-convicts (T. Roosevelt becomes famous)
Destroy/capture ALL Spanish ships in Philippines (Manila Bay)
Aided by Filipinos seeking independence from Spanish

34. Effects 3,000 died (but only 380 from combat!) Treaty of Paris 1898
Cuban independence, but under US Sphere of Influence
Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam = US territories
Philippine-American War

35. U.S. Imperialism: PHILIPPINES
When the Philippines were annexed and not granted independence, the Philippine-American War began in 1899
Cartoon shows: “Not civilized” and can’t take care of themselves
The Philippine-American War lasted 3 years and cost more American lives than the Spanish-American War

36. Control over the Philippines was also seen as a direct trading location to who?

37. It is criminal! They wanted independence!
Not all Americans supported imperialism
The Anti-Imperialist League formed in 1899 to fight American annexation of the Philippines
Many argued that the United States had no right to force American culture upon others
It is criminal! They wanted independence!

38. Filipinos could not compete with American troops, resorted to guerilla warfare, non traditional warfare.
Americans ruthlessly crushed the “rebellion,” used tactics the Spanish used in Cuba (concentration camps, brutal treatment).
“I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better you will please me.”
-General Jacob Smith
“…they must yield before the superior race.”
- San Francisco Argonaut, 1902

39. Are territories un-American?

40. Not colonies… just a“Sphere of Influence”

41. How does this cartoon influence public perception of…
SPAIN US
Cuba

42. How does this cartoon influence public perception of…
Puerto Rico US
Cuba

43. Almost always on EOC. What does it mean?