1. EXPANSIONISM or Imperialism
AMERICA IN THE WORLD

2. JUSTIFICATIONS OF IMPERIALISM
ECONOMIC
INTELLECUTAL
MILITARY

3. ECONOMIC MOTIVATIONS
Big Business in support of foreign markets

4. Financial motivation

5. INTELLECTUAL JUSTIFICATIONS
Social Darwinism (Herbert Spencer) –Americans had completed inward
expansion to the West – so now it was time for overseas expansion.

6. Military Justifications
Mahan’s – The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1890) detailed the importance of sea power:

7. CUBA

8. CUBA AND WAR WITH SPAIN
General Weyler

9. American involvement with Cuba
Economic: Americans had 50 million $ invested in sugar.

10. Cuba: Destination Honeymoon

11. Mint Julep anyone?

12. Business of making sugar

13. Remapping . . .Deforestation

14. Importing Wood?

15. Jose Martin

16. Reconcentration camps in Cuba

17. Steps to Cuban Revolution
Madrid promises reform
American Business men like J.P. Morgan “believed that further talk with Spain would accomplish nothing.

18. THE MAINE

19. What happened to the Maine?

20. Funeral in Havana

21. War to Free Cuba Mixed emotions about going to war Anti-imperialists
Imperialist view

22. NPR EXCITEMENT

23. Anti-Imperialists

24. Anti-Imperialism

26. Andrew Carnegie – anti-imperialist

27. Blood Brothers

28. Today’s Connections

29. Imperialists?

30. Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Albert Beveridge
Many businessmen/bankers
The Presidents – Cleveland, McKinley

31. THE LABOR UNION
Labor – concerned about imperialism/but when war broke out – AFL supported war
Not all Labor felt the same way . . .

32. Diplomatic Relations with Cuba
TELLER AMENDMENT – Tell Her about it,
Platt Amendment – Serve Cuba on a platter

33. Guantanamo Bay

34. Guantanamo Bay

35. Problems in Philippines
Guerilla Warfare

36. General Arthur MacArthur

37. Emilo Aguinaldo y Famy

38. President McKinley
There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all [the Philippine Islands] and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift, and civilize, and Christianize them.

40. “Kill everyone over Ten”

41. Mark Twain
“We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; furnished heartbreak by exile so some dozens of disagreeable patriots; And so, by these Providences of God – and the phrase is the government’s not mine – we are a World Power.”

43. Music of the 1890s

44. HAWAII
Aloha!

45. Panama Canal

46. PANAMA CANAL
Roosevelt desperately wanted a canal to connect the oceans.
Secretary of State Hay negotiated with Great Britain to let us do what we wanted w/out getting involved.
Colombia wanted a ton of money for us to go in there and make a canal.. Senate at first refused.
Panama conveniently staging a revolt against Columbia.
Roosevelt recognized Panama’s new government right away – refused to let Columbians back in.

47. Open Door

48. To China

49. Roosevelt Corollary
Caribbean Countries – impoverished and beholden to European creditors.
U.S didn’t like this connection – thought it endangered the power of the Monroe Doctrine.
U.S. made it clear that it would come into troubled American nations and set them straight (did so with Dominican Republic)
Roosevelt Corollary – addition to Monroe Doctrine – U.S would be the international police power in the region.

50. Dollar Diplomacy
A policy of influencing our American neighbors without physical control – but money control (Taft)