1. Write down the following questions / prompts in your notebooks w/ spaces in between:
In preparation for a video clips from “The Roosevelts – Get Action” about Theodore Roosevelt (min. 1:23:00 – 1:37:00)…
(1) Roosevelt believed no European …
(2) February 15, 1898 …
(3) Result of the Battle of Manilla Bay …
(4) Why did he fight in the Spanish-American War?
(5) “Rough Riders” & Battle of San Juan Hill …

2. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) 1884 - Wife and mother die
(1858 – 1919)
    
Wife and mother die
Moves to Dakota Territory
Remarries & begins 2nd family 
Becomes Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Resigns position to fight in
Spanish-American War
Presidency (one of the most popular in American History)
Loses presidential election

3. Causes of Spanish-American War
Cuban Rebellion / “Cuban War of Independence”
American investments in Cuba
$50 million in investments
Yellow Journalism
Sensational news stories
USS Maine (Feb. 15, 1898)
Blamed on the Spanish

4. Write down the following questions / prompts in your notebooks w/ spaces in between:
In preparation for a video clips from “The Roosevelts – Get Action” about Theodore Roosevelt (min. 1:23 – 1:37)…
(1) Roosevelt believed no European …
(2) February 15, 1898 …
(3) Result of the Battle of Manilla Bay …
(4) Why did he fight in the Spanish-American War?
(5) “Rough Riders” & Battle of San Juan Hill …

5. Battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba
July 1, 1898
Take the hills surrounding the Port of Santiago

6. Battle of Santiago, Cuba
July 3, 1898
Spanish fleet leaves Santiago Harbor and is destroyed.

7. Consequences of the Spanish-American War
Turning-point in American History
1 - U.S. takes possession of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
Guam
Puerto Rico
American Samoa

8. Consequences of the Spanish-American War
2 - Cuba has “pseudo” self-rule until 1934 with the change of the “Good Neighbor” Policy.
Platt Amendment (1901) …
3 - U.S. adopts more active role in the world.
4 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes a national hero.

9. Treaty of Paris (1898)
Ratified by Senate on Feb., 1899 by one vote, 57 to 27.
Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

10. What are the reasons President William McKinley decides annex the Philippines, (based upon his prayer of Nov., 1899)?
“I walked the floor of the White House night after night until midnight, and I am not ashamed to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed to God Almighty for light and guidance more than one night. And one night late it came to me this way – I don’t know how it was, but it came. One, that we could not give the Philippines back to Spain – that would be cowardly and dishonorable. Two, that we could not turn them over to France or Germany – our commercial rivals in the Orient – that would be bad business and discreditable. Three, that we could not leave them to themselves – they were unfit for self-government – and they would soon have anarchy and misrule over there worse than Spain’s was. And, four, that there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift them and civilize and Christianize them …”

11. Philippine-American War, 1899 - 1902
* America’s first war of conquest!!
The westward move of
American power and
influence was desired by …

12. Pancho Villa Panama Canal (1903) & Panamanian revolt …
U.S. “Open Door” policy towards China …
Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” diplomacy …
U.S. involvement in Mexico (1913 – 1916) …
Pancho Villa