1. Essential Question
How did America expand its influence around the world in the late 1800s?

2. US Expansionism

3. Reasons for Expansionism
Need to be involved in world affairs
Need for places to invest
Need for raw materials (oil, rubber, tin, etc.)

5. Expansion in the Pacific
U.S. looked toward Asia
Expanding business markets

6. Alaska
1867
Purchased from Russia

7. Hawaii
Sugar plantations
1898 – U.S. annexed Hawaii

8. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

9. The Spanish-American War

10. Latin America Important source of trade
U.S. concerned with European influence in the region

11. Yellow Journalism Sensationalist reporting
Writers exaggerate or make up stories to attract readers

12. New York Journal
Owned by William Randolph Hearst

13. New York World
Owned by Joseph Pulitzer

14. Reporting the War in Cuba
Stories of Spanish atrocities found in both newspapers
Goal = sell more papers
Enraged Americans against the Spanish

15. The Maine
Feb. 15, 1898
The ship exploded in the harbor, killing 266 sailors
No one knew the source of the explosion

18. Results of the Explosion
The press blamed Spain
“Remember the Maine”
Congress approved war preparations

19. Declaration of War April 11, 1898 – McKinley declared war
Theodore Roosevelt – assistant secretary of the Navy
April 24 – Spain declared war on the U.S.

20. War on Two Fronts
In the Pacific (Philippines)
In the Caribbean (Cuba)

21. Philippines Spanish colony
U.S. Navy Commodore George Dewey – destroyed Spanish warships there

22. Rough Riders Volunteer cavalry unit Included Theodore Roosevelt
Assisted in capturing San Juan Hill

23. Spanish Surrender Spain surrendered two weeks later
Americans also occupied the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico

25. Puerto Rico and Guam Annexed into the United States
1917 – became U.S. citizens with full rights

26. Cuba Platt Amendment Made Cuba a U.S. protectorate
Gave U.S. the right to build a naval station and to intervene to protect Cuba’s independence

27. Guantanamo Bay

28. U.S. Control