1. The US Builds an Empire
Foreign Policy

2. Traditional US Foreign Policy
Isolationism
Reasons US Able to keep this policy?
Room to expand
Internal conflicts
Perception of weakness
Needed to protect businesses

3. Reasons US Abandons Isolationism by 1900
Frontier closed
Internal conflicts solved
Becoming stronger
Fears foreign competition

4. Imperialism
A belief that a dominant culture should establish political or economic control over a weaker culture.
Reasons for adopting this policy?
Cheap resources
Wider market
Cheap labor
competition

5. Spanish-American War Causes Results Cuba Yellow journalism
De Lome letter
U.S.S. Maine
Results
New territories
Cuba’s independence
Philippines

6. Significance US gains an empire Develop foreign policies
Power of US Presidency?
Rivalries
Ethical conflict
Spotlight: “Buffalo Soldiers”

7. US in Latin America Monroe Doctrine? Reason Policy appears to succeed?
European nations busy fighting
Geographic distance
Internal struggles in European nations
After 1898: Roosevelt Corollary

8. Applications of Corollary?
Cuba
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
Guantanamo Bay
Colombia
Canal? Panama’s revolution?

9. US in the Far East China Opium War, MFN Status Spheres of influence
Open Door Policy
1900 Boxer Rebellion
1911 Revolution, Sun Yat-Sen

10. Japan Matthew Perry’s Great White Fleet, 1853
Japan’s industrialization
1894, takes Korea and Taiwan from China
1904, fought Russia for control of Manchuria. US mediates (Roosevelt)
Treaty of Portsmouth ends Russo-Japanese War, but leaves bitterness