1. Creating an Empire, 1865-1917 The USS Maine, sunk in Havana, 1898

2. Opening Moves Monroe Doctrine Guano Islands Act (1856) France and Mexico

4. Seward’s Folly

5. Seward’s Ambitions Alaska: $7.2 million Midway Failures: –Caribbean –Canada –Greenland –Panama Canal Zone

6. Further Steps Samoa (1878) James G. Blaine –First International American Conference (1889) –Pan American Union Naval Growth

7. Motives for Imperialism Social Darwinism -- John Fiske Strategic Concerns--Alfred Thayer Mahan Macho Idiocy--Theodore Roosevelt Altruism Missionairies

8. Economic Reasons The US needs new markets to grow 1844--China 1854--Japan 1865-1900: Exports up by 900% Depression of the 1890s

9. Hawaii 1875: Free Trade and Sugar 1887: Pearl Harbor 1890: End of Sugar Tariff 1891: New Queen 1893: Sugar Interest American Coup Cleveland 1898

10. Venezuela Venezuela-British Guiana Boundary Dispute 1895--Sec. Of State Richard Olney 1897--Arbitration

11. Spanish American War

12. Spanish American War: Lead- Up Cuba and Civil War Yellow Journalism US Neutrality 1897 Arbitration offer The Maine Explodes (Feb 15, 1898) Response Teller Amendment

13. Spanish-American War Manila Bay -- May 1, 1898 Recruitment Invasion July 1-3 Treaty of Paris

14. The Phillipines Mark Twain Phillipine Revolt (1899-1913) Phillipine Self-Government

15. Caribbean Aftermath Puerto Rico –Insular Cases Cuba –Platt Amendment Protectorate –1906-1917: 3 Interventions

16. China, Japan, Russia The Open Door The Russo-Japanese War (1905) –Treaty of Portsmouth (1905) Trouble with Japan

17. Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick

18. Roosevelt and Panama Canal Plans Purchase Fails The Coup Construction: 1904-14 End of Yellow Feaver Roosevelt Corollary (1904)

19. Dollar Diplomacy

20. Lodge Corollary China Caribbean –Nicaragua –Haiti –Dominican Republic

21. Porfirio Diaz (1876-1911)

22. Mexico and Civil War Porfirio Diaz (1876-1910) President Francisco Madero (1911-3) US Intervention (Henry Cabot Lodge and Victoriano Huerta) Veracruz Pancho Villa Black Jack Pershing’s Raid--1916

23. “I can never be anything else but an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the United States first in an arrangement like this I am thinking of what is best for the world, for if the United States fails, the best hopes of mankind fail with it.” -- Henry Cabot Lodge