1. AP PARTS From LEGACION DE ESPAÑA.,WASHINGTON, D.C.
To His Excellency, Don José Canalejas (Spanish Foreign Minister)
The situation here remains the same. Everything depends on the political and military outcome in Cuba... Until then, nothing can be clearly seen, and I regard it as a waste of time and progress, by a wrong road, to be sending emissaries to the rebel camp, or to negotiate with the [those] who have as yet no legal standing, or to try to ascertain the intentions and plans of [the US] government...
Besides the ingrained and inevitable bluntness with which is repeated all that the press and public opinion in Spain have said about Weyler, it once more shows what McKinley is, 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....

2. American Imperialism

3. Stirrings of Imperialism
The New Manifest Destiny
Attention to foreign lands, closing of the frontier
Social Darwinism
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan (1890) ‘Influence of Sea Power’
Foreign commerce, navy & colonies, Pacific bases
Josiah Strong’s ‘Our Country; Its Possible Future & Present Crisis’
WASP values of liberty & Christianity –duty to spread them
Controlling the Hemisphere
Secretary of State James Blaine sought Latin American markets for excess goods
Organized Pan – American Congress
Leads to border dispute w/Venezuela in 1895

4. Explain the significance of the following dates:
Warm Up
Explain the significance of the following dates:
1812
1845
1898

5. Spanish American War
Causes
Effects

6. Control of the Pacific: Hawaii
US wants naval base at Hawaii
After 1840, Americans & Europeans dominated political & economic life
Disease decimates 50% of native pop.
SUGAR (major export); rise of plantations
1890, US eliminates sugar tariff
US annexes Hawaii in Dec. 1898
Queen Liliuokalani protests
Control of the Pacific: Samoa
US presence since 1878, share w/ Germany & GB
1899 buys out GB & splits island w/Germany

7. ‘you furnish me the pictures, I’ll furnish the war’

8. War with Spain: Causes Cuba Controversy Yellow Journalism
Civil war b/w native Cubans & Spanish since 1868
Spanish General ‘Butcher’ Weyler used concentration camps against Cubans
Yellow Journalism
Pultizer’s NY World & Hearst’s NY Journal
De Lome Letter
Sinking of the Maine

9. “Splendid little war” –Sec. of State John Hay
Lasted from April to August 1898
US military not prepared –supply issues, few regular army, many soldiers had never fought in-large scale attack
Racial conflicts w/ black soldiers
Seizing of Philippines
Comm. George Dewey ordered by Asst. Secretary of Navy, T. Roosevelt
Captured Manila Bay after war declared
Becomes a war to strip Spain of its colonies

10. Battle for Cuba & Control of the Caribbean
American forces land in June
Fight at Santiago, El Caney & Kettle Hill (San Juan Hill) in July
Rough Riders led by TR charge up San Juan Hill
US takes Puerto Rico & Guam
Rising anti-imperialist sentiment by Twain, Carnegie, Gompers, Sen John Sherman, Jane Addams
Armistice w/Spain –Treaty of Paris of 1898
Cuban independence
Ceded PR & Guam to US
Jones Act (1917) Puerto Ricans become US citizens
Another source of sugar w/ no tariff
US buys Philippines for $20 mil
3 year guerilla war led by Emilio Aguinaldo
Islands become dependent on US goods

11. S.A.F.E

12. Effects
McKinley wins 1900 election by a landside over WJ Bryan (anti-war)
Open Door Policy
Gain concession/sphere of influence in China like other Europeans had since the 1850s
Philippine occupation increased US interest in Asian markets

13. 1899 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners
Sec. Hay proposed “open door notes” in 1898 to European nations to allow free trade w/Chinese w/o no colonies or military
Development of modern professional military
officer training schools
role of Joint Chiefs of Staff
1899 Boxer Rebellion against foreigners
US military rescue

14. AP PARTS (yes, again)
“It is not true that the US feels any hunger or entertains any projects as regards the other nations of the Western Hemisphere [except] such for their welfare…the adherence of the US to the Monroe Doctrine may force the US, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of wrongdoing to exercise police power”

15. Republic as Empire Panama Canal
1903 Panamanian Revolution
TR sends forces ‘to maintain order’
Panama becomes independent & signs favorable treaty w/ US
“Speak softly and carry a big stick’ -TR
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
US will oppose European intervention in our hemisphere
US had a right to intervene in the western hemisphere to preserve order & stability
‘Dollar Diplomacy’ –Taft administration
US investment in lesser developed nations
Criticized by some who felt the US should intervene, especially with troops
Honduras 1909; Nicaragua 1912

16. Close
Write a well-developed thesis statement
To what extent was the United States’ emergence as a world power motivated by the desire for economic growth rather than for nation building?

17. Now, Will You Be Good? Uncle Sam (to Filipino) — "See what I do for a good little boy?"
Something Lacking. Uncle Sam: "Well, Sonny, What Is It?" Philippines: "Where Do I Come In On This?"

18. Panama--A New Sister Republic. “The News Reaches Bogota," 1903

19. A Fair Field and No Favor
Uncle Sam:
‘I am out for commerce, not conquest