1. IMPERIALISM: America Forges an Empire Key Figures

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
SS.912.A.4.1 Analyze the major factors that drove United States imperialism.
SS.912.A.4.2 Explain the motives of the United States acquisition of the territories.
SS.912.A.4.3 Examine causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish American War.
SS.912.A.4.4 Analyze the economic, military, and security motivations of the United States to complete the Panama Canal as well as major obstacles involved in its construction.

3. The Presidents Grover Cleveland:
22nd and 24th President of the United States
Opposed the annexation of Hawaii

4. The Presidents Benjamin Harrison: 23rd President of the United States
Grandson of President William Henry Harrison
Submitted the treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate

5. The Presidents William McKinley: 25th President of the United States
Responsible for Spanish- American War
Philippine-American War
Annexation of Hawaii
Assassinated by an anarchist

6. The Presidents Theodore Roosevelt: 26th President of the United States
Asst. Secretary of Navy
Fought in Spanish-American War (Rough Riders)
"Great White Fleet"
Added Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine.
"Big Stick" policy.
Panama Canal
Received Nobel Peace Prize for mediation of end of Russo-Japanese war

7. The Presidents William Howard Taft:
First American governor of the Philippines who referred to the Filipinos as "my little brown brothers"
27th President of the United States
Dollar Diplomacy
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

8. The Presidents Woodrow Wilson: 28th President of the United States
Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition)
Nineteenth Amendment (Women’s Vote)
Moral Diplomacy

9. The Yellow Journalists
William Randolph Hearst:
New York Morning Journal
Helped to created public support for Spanish-American War

10. The Yellow Journalists
Joseph Pulitzer:
New York World
Created public support for Spanish-American War
Pulitzer Prize: Award for outstanding achievement in journalism

11. The Nationalists Queen Lilioukalani:
Successor to King Kalakaua (who gave most control to the businessmen in Hawaii through a new constitution)
Opposed control of Hawaii by the U.S.
Wanted to keep the islands mainly native, reducing the power of merchants from foreign nations

12. The Nationalists Maximo Gomez:
General who led Cuban insurgents against the Spanish colonial government in the Ten Years' War
Key leader of the Cuban Liberation army
Fought a difficult three-year war against Spanish forces before the United States intervened in 1898

13. The Nationalists Emilio Aguinaldo: Filipino leader
Fought first against Spain and then against the United States
Leader in the fight for Filipino independence