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U. S. History 1. 25. 13 1. Today– Imperialism– Pwpt Notes- page 1 2. Choose Differentiated Assignment for Ch. 12 A. After Presentation– Use Ipad for Blue Page notes B. Textbook Ch. 12 Guided Questions 3. Current Events? This week/last? 4. Return Unit Test Gilded Age– Corrections –Monday- but you can see yours---

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U. S. History 10. 15. 13 1. Today– Imperialism– Pwpt Notes- page 1 2. Choose Differentiated Assessment for Ch. 12 – – Card Sort Imperialism– non pencil OR Matching-and other Questions- paper pencil After Presentation– Use Ipad Wednesday 3. Assignment-- Textbook Ch. 12 Guided Questions • APUSH– Short Answer-Separate Questions with Brinkley.

Chapter 12&20 The Imperial Republic

Learning Targets– The Age of Imperialism • Evaluate, take, and defend positions on the various U. S. foreign policies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1892 -1912) • Analyze the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War • Identify and evaluate the factors that influenced U. S. imperialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the ensuing debate over imperialism

America Begins at the edge of the 20 th Century

Main Idea and Essential Question— What is Imperialism? Isolationism v. Imperialism • In the 1890 s, how did economic and political forces spark a burst of imperialistic expansionism for the US that culminated in the Spanish. American War?

Another Essential Question • How and why did the US acquire an overseas empire and intervene in the affairs of Cuba, Mexico, and other Latin America nations? Role of economics, religion, ideology?

Another Essential Question • When and how is it proper for a nation to interfere in the internal politics of another nation? (When they discover weapons of mass imagination? For Halliburton? )

Essential Questions • • • 1. Why did Americans turn from the old continental concept of Manifest Destiny to a new, worldwide expansionism. ? 2. How did the Spanish-American War serve as the catalyst to transform imperialist stirrings into a full-fledged empire? 3. How did the nation make attitudinal, political, and military adjustments to its new role as a major world power?

I. European Colonization

1. Commercial/Business Interests U. S. Foreign Investments: 1869 -1908

1. Commercial/Business Interests American Foreign Trade: 1870 -1914

2. Military/Strategic Interests Alfred T. Mahan The Influence of Sea Power on History: 1660 -1783

3. Social Darwinist Thinking The Hierarchy of Race The White Man’s Burden

Rudyard Kipling • Take up the White Man's burden— Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. - The White Man's Burden

4. Religious/Missionary Interests American Missionaries in China, 1905

5. Closing the American Frontier

II. Hawaii

U. S. Missionaries in Hawaii Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820 s

U. S. View of Hawaiians Hawaii becomes a U. S. Protectorate in 1849 by virtue of economic treaties.

Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani Hawaii for the Hawaiians!

U. S. Business Interests In Hawaii 1875 – Reciprocity Treaty 1890 – Mc. Kinley Tariff 1893 – American businessmen backed an uprising against Queen Liliuokalani. Sanford Ballard Dole proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.

To The Victor Belongs the Spoils Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898

III. Japan

Commodore Matthew Perry Opens Up Japan: 1853 The Japanese View of Commodore Perry

Treaty of Kanagawa: 1854

Gentleman’s Agreement: 1908 A Japanese note agreeing to deny passports to laborers entering the U. S. Japan recognized the U. S. right to exclude Japanese immigrants holding passports issued by other countries. The U. S. government got the school board of San Francisco to rescind their order to segregate Asians in separate schools. 1908 Root-Takahira Agreement.

Lodge Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: 1912 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr. (R-MA) Non-European powers, like Japan, would be excluded from owning territory in the Western Hemisphere.

IV. Alaska

“Seward’s Folly”: 1867 $7. 2 million

“Seward’s Icebox”: 1867

• “Most Americans did not start the war with consciously imperialistic motives, but after falling through the door of imperialism in a drunken fit of idealism, they wound up with imperialistic and colonial fruits in their grasp” • Thomas Bailey The American Pageant

V. Cuba

The Imperialist Taylor

Spanish Misrule in Cuba

Valeriano Weyler’s “Reconcentration” Policy

• Search for Missing Bride Continues • Cold Feet Suspected in Case of Missing Bride • Bride Missing! Recent Fight With Groom’s Family • How do these headlines differ? • Consider the wording and how a reader might respond to each article. • What does each headline imply? • If these were all articles, which would you have wanted to read first? • Which do you think would have been the most reliable story? Why? • Why might different newspapers choose to present the same event so differently?

“Yellow Journalism” & Jingoism Joseph Pulitzer Hearst to Frederick Remington: William Randolph Hearst You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war!

Richard Outcault’s letter requesting copyright registration for this character that looks like Nick Seibold Probable source of “yellow Journalism” in Pulitzer’s New York World

De Lôme Letter Dupuy de Lôme, Spanish Ambassador to the U. S. Criticized President Mc. Kinley as weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd, besides being a would-be politician who tries to leave a door open behind himself while keeping on good terms with the jingoes of his party.

Theodore Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Mc. Kinley administration. Imperialist and American nationalist. Criticized President Mc. Kinley as having the backbone of a chocolate éclair! Resigns his position to fight in Cuba.

The “Rough Riders”

Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain! Funeral for Maine victims in Havana

The Spanish-American War (1898): “That Splendid Little War” How prepared was the US for war?

VI. The Philippines • Same as V. clip

The Spanish-American War (1898): “That Splendid Little War”

Dewey Captures Manila!

Is He To Be a Despot?

Emilio Aguinaldo Leader of the Filipino Uprising. July 4, 1946: Philippine independence

William H. Taft, 1 st Gov. -General of the Philippines Great administrator.

Our “Sphere of Influence”

The Treaty of Paris: 1898 Cuba was freed from Spanish rule. Spain gave up Puerto Rico and the island of Guam. The U. S. paid Spain $20 mil. for the Philippines. The U. S. becomes an imperial power!

The American Anti-Imperialist Founded in 1899. Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, William James, and William Jennings Bryan among the leaders. Campaigned against the annexation of the Philippines and other acts of imperialism. L

Cuban Independence? Teller Amendment (1898) Platt Amendment (1903) Senator Orville Platt 1. Cuba was not to enter into any agreements with foreign powers that would endanger its independence. 2. The U. S. could intervene in Cuban affairs if necessary to maintain an efficient, independent govt. 3. Cuba must lease Guantanamo Bay to the U. S. for naval and coaling station. 4. Cuba must not build up an excessive public debt.

VII. Puerto Rico • Same as V. Clip

Puerto Rico: 1898 1900 -Foraker Act. § § § PR became an “unincorporated territory. ” Citizens of PR, not of the US. Import duties on PR goods 1901 -1903 the Insular Cases. § Constitutional rights were not automatically extended to territorial possessions. § Congress had the power to decide these rights. § Import duties laid down by the Foraker Act were legal!

Puerto Rico: 1898 1917 –Jones Act. § Gave full territorial status to PR. § Removed tariff duties on PR goods coming into the US. § PRs elected their own legislators & governor to enforce local laws. § PRs could NOT vote in US presidential elections. § A resident commissioner was sent to Washington to vote for PR in the House.

VIII. Panama

Panama: The King’s Crown 1850 Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. 1901 Hay-Paunceforte Treaty. Philippe Bunau-Varilla, agent provocateur. Dr. Walter Reed. Colonel W. Goethals. 1903 Hay-Bunau. Varilla Treaty.

Panama Canal TR in Panama (Construction begins in 1904)

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: 1905 Chronic wrongdoing… may in America, as elsewhere, ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.

Speak Softly, But Carry a Big Stick!

IX. China

Stereotypes of the Chinese Immigrant Oriental [Chinese] Exclusion Act, 1887

The Boxer Rebellion: 1900 The Peaceful Harmonious Fists. “ 55 Days at Peking. ”

The Open Door Policy Secretary John Hay. Give all nations equal access to trade in China. Guaranteed that China would NOT be taken over by any one foreign power.

The Open Door Policy

America as a Pacific Power

America’s New Role

The Cares of a Growing Family

Constable of the World

Treaty of Portsmouth: 1905 Nobel Peace Prize for Teddy

The Great White Fleet: 1907

Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy” Improve financial opportunities for American businesses. Use private capital to further U. S. interests overseas. Therefore, the U. S. should create stability and order abroad that would best promote America’s commercial interests.

The Mexican Revolution: 1910 s Victoriano Huerta seizes control of Mexico and puts Madero in prison where he was murdered. Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, and Alvaro Obregon fought against Huerta. The U. S. also got involved by occupying Veracruz and Huerta fled the country. Eventually Carranza would gain power in Mexico.

The Mexican Revolution: 1910 s Emiliano Zapata Venustiano Carranza Pancho Villa Porfirio Diaz Francisco I Madero

Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy” The U. S. should be the conscience of the world. Spread democracy. Promote peace. Condemn colonialism.

Searching for Banditos General John J. Pershing with Pancho Villa in 1914.

U. S. Global Investments & Investments in Latin America, 1914

U. S. Interventions in Latin America: 1898 -1920 s

Uncle Sam: One of the “Boys? ”

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