1. Warm up Monroe Doctrine USS Maine Roosevelt Corollary
Spanish-American War
Philippine-American War

2. European Imperialism
Between 1870 and 1900, European powers seized 10 million square miles of territory in Africa/Asia.
About 150 million people were subjected to colonial rule

3. Fear of Competition
Policy makers, bankers, manufacturers, grew fearful that US might lose out in struggle for global markets and materials.

4. Belief in Darwinian Struggle
Struggle for survival and that countries that failed to compete were doomed to decline.

5. Dependency on Foreign Trade
America was very dependent on foreign trade.
¼ of the nation's farm products and ½ its petroleum were sold overseas.

6. A Desire for Sea Power
Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that national prosperity depended on control of the seas.
Whoever rules the waves rules the world," Mahan wrote.

7. Alaska
1867-Sec. of State William Steward buys Alaska from the Russia for $7.2 million (2 cents an acre).
Rich in natural resources (timber, minerals, and oil).
Seward’s folly

8. Hawaii
1893- Group of sugar and pineapple-growing businessmen, backed by U.S. military, deposed Hawaii's queen, conspired for U.S. annexation of the islands, which was achieved in 1898.
Hawaii became a state in 1959.

9. War with Spain
US dispatched the USS Maine to rescue US citizens who might be endangered by conflict in Cuba during a revolt
The Tariff of 1894, which put restrictions on sugar imports to the United States, severely hurt the economy of Cuba which was then a Spanish colony. Angry nationalists began a revolt against the Spanish colonial regime.

10. USS Maine
On February 15, 1898 the Maine mysteriously blew up and the US blamed Spain.
American public was stirred into frenzy thanks to yellow journalism
President McKinley gave the OK for war.

11. Teller Amendment
Congress agreed, but only after adopting Teller Amendment
Made it clear that the US did not harbor imperialist ambitions and would not acquire Cuba.

12. The Platt Amendment
Gave the US the right to intervene in Cuba to protect "life, property, and individual liberties."
The SA war resulted in the US taking control of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
144 day war

13. The Philippine American War
A sequel to the Spanish American War, Spain ceded the Philippines to the US.
Native Filipinos fought American rulers from

14. American Atrocities
To suppress Filipino insurgency, the American military forcibly relocated or burned villages, imprisoned or killed civilians, used vicious torture techniques

15. Philippine War
4,000+ American soldiers, about 20,000 Filipino fighters, and about 200,000 Filipino civilians died.
Filipinos received their independence in 1946.

16. The Roosevelt Corollary
1904-Germany demanded port in the DR for an unpaid loan
Roosevelt Corollary-declaring that the U.S. would be the policeman of the Caribbean and Central America.
To enforce order, forestall foreign intervention, and protect economic interests, the United States intervened in the Caribbean and Central America some twenty times over the next quarter century -- in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.