1. The Roots of American Imperialism and the Spanish American War
Or as I like to call it: “America’s kleptomaniac phase..”

2. As a country we’ve been taking things since the beginning..
Plymouth
Ohio River Valley
Texas, Oregon, California, (all that stuff from Mexico)

3. The stuff we take that turns into states
The Civil War really puts a hold on this..

4. Reasons We were worried about the expansion of slavery
Slave vs Free states
The war means armed conflict between two groups and ties up man power and money.
In other words as a country, major distraction

5. America circa 1880 The country is rebuilding after the Civil War
New industries are popping up
More stuff is farmed, remember..
We need new places to sell this stuff.

6. Money drives the formation of US Foreign policy
Alfred Mahan
A canal
Naval build-up on Battleships (Roosevelt)
We talk some serious smack to Britain

7. The US gets really racist..
White Man’s Burden
Social Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
Frontier Thesis

8. All of this gets into a war with Spain
Teddy Roosevelt
Spanish American War
Combine all those reasons for imperialism on the previous page and add the following…

9. The “Butcher” Sent to put down a revolt in Cuba, February 1895
Valeriano ("Butcher") Weyler
Sent to put down a revolt in Cuba, February 1895
Creates “fortified towns”
Read prisons
Rebels tortured
Yellow Press has field day

10. Enter McKinley Election of 1896 And then......... 2 part platform
Protect American Business
Free the Cuban people
The Dupuy de Lome letter.
Bulletin board material
And then

11. Maine Explodes!!
And the Press
blames Spain!!

12. Ok the other Maine U.S.S. Maine Mysterious Explosion
Spanish “mine” blamed
Probably an engine problem

13. War: Asia
The Philippines
Manila Bay

14. War: Caribbean Cuba Puerto Rico
Guantánamo
San Juan Hill
Puerto Rico

15. Results Cuba “liberated” Roosevelt becomes a national hero
America becomes a Pacific power
US gets Philippines from Spain
The Catch....

16. The Philippines Turns out not everyone wants to be part of America
Emilio Aguinaldo leads rebellion
The US duplicates many of the actions found so detestable in Cuba.

17. And in the end.....
American battle deaths (1/20th the number lost at Gettysburg)
2. Several thousand deaths from disease and poisoned meat
3. Cost: $250,000,000
4. U.S. acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippine Islands (100,000 sq. miles, 10 million people) for $20 million
5. Anti-Imperialists angered by anti-democratic aspects of imperialist efforts
6. Teller Amendment pledged that U.S. would guarantee self-rule to Cubans
7. Platt Amendment restricted Cuban foreign policies and gave U.S. land for coaling or naval stations

18. Evaluate the American Experience
With regards to the Spanish American war, was Imperialism positive?
What were the positives, what were the negatives?
If a future situation occurred would you expect America to be imperialist again?
In the end all of this leads us to a series of territories in places you’d never imagine….like….

19. Territories Alaska Purchase from Russia in 1867.
Chamizal from Mexico from due to course change of the Rio Grande River. The territory was mostly retroceded to Mexico by treaty in 1963.
 Hawaii, annexed 1898 upon the request of a government made up primarily of American and European businessmen who had overthrown the Kingdom of Hawaii. With Hawaii came the Palmyra Atoll which had been annexed by the U.S. in 1859 but later abandoned, then later claimed by Hawaii.
 Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, and Cuba, ceded by Spain after the Spanish-American War in 1898, and for which the United States compensated Spain an additional $20 million under the terms of Article 3 of the Treaty of Paris. All four of these areas were under United States Military Government (USMG) for extended periods. Cuba became an independent nation in 1902, and the Philippines became an independent nation in 1946.
Wake Island, annexed in 1899 (the claim is currently disputed by the Marshall Islands.)
American Samoa, occupied in 1899, made a formal territory in 1929.
Tutuila Island and Aunuu Island ceded by their chiefs in 1900, then added to American Samoa.
Manua
annexed in 1904, then added to American Samoa.
Swains Island, annexed in 1925 (occupied since 1856), then added to American Samoa (The claim is currently disputed by
Tokelau, a colonial territory of New Zealand).
 United States Virgin Islands,
bought from the Danish Crown for $25 million on January 17, 1917 during World War I. Virgin Islands inhabitants became American citizens in