1. IMPERIAL AMERICA

2. IMPERIALISM Fueled by Nationalism Militarism Cultural Superiority
Need for raw materials and markets
Stronger countries take over weaker countries to save the souls of heathens

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

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

5. Closing the American Frontier

6. European Powers
Berlin Conference creates a scramble for Africa
Africa carved into colonies under European rule
America attended the Conference, but no Africans
America held no interest in colonies in Africa

7. U.S. ACQUISITIONS
Alaska – 1867 – Seward’s Folly – becomes brilliant purchase when gold is discovered – considered the final frontier
Hawaii – 1875 Commercial reciprocity agreement
1889 – Naval Base rights at Pearl Harbor

9. HAWAII Original Americans were missionaries
Children of missionaries create plantation system with sugar cane as primary crop
Japanese brought in as farm laborer’s – Hawaiian’s become minority population in their country
Dole begins a cannery for the “foreign fruit” pineapple

10. Treaty of Reciprocity 1875
Hawaii gains free access to U.S. markets for sugar cane and “exotic” products such as pineapple
U.S. gains land which we call today Pearl Harbor

11. HAWAII AND THE TARIFF
Hawaiian sugar not taxed until the McKinley Tariff of 1890
Dole becomes President of Hawaii after overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
Hawaii requests annexation into the U.S.
1893 Hawaiian’s revolt – American troops brought in
1898 Hawaii annexed

12. War Makers Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst
Yellow Journalism sensationalizes headlines to sell newspapers

13. Yellow Journalism

14. “A Splendid Little War”
Yellow Journalism swayed U.S. opinion to go to war with Spain
What was the real prize?

15. CUBA, The Land of Sugar Cane

16. Fanning the flames for War

17. Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

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

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

21. Spanish American War U.S. hits Spain’s colonial possessions
First Attack is on the Philippines
Commodore George Dewey wins the battle of Manila Bay and crushes the Spanish Navy
U.S. moves into Cuba
Guantanamo Bay falls to the U.S. Marines
Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” take San Juan Hill

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

24. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

26. Japan

27. Gentleman’s Agreement: 1908
A Japanese note agreeing to deny passports to laborers entering the U.S.
Japan recognized the U.S. right to exclude Japanese immigrants holding passports issued by other countries.
The U.S. government got the school board of San Francisco to rescind their order to segregate Asians in separate schools.
1908  Root-Takahira Agreement.

28. Root-Takahira Agreement: 1908
A pledge to maintain the status quo in the Far East.
Recognition of China’s independence and territorial integrity, and support for continuation of the Open-Door Policy.
An agreement to mutual consultation in the event of future Far Eastern crises.