Imperialism

1
Imperialism
2
Bush on Iraq and the Philippines

President George W. Bush ''Some say the culture
of the Middle East will not sustain the
institutions of democracy. The same doubts were
once expressed about the culture of Asia. Those
doubts were proven wrong nearly six decades ago.
(October 2003) New York Times, October 19,
2003 In an eight-hour visit, Mr. Bush for the
first time drew explicit comparisons between the
transition he is seeking in Iraq and the rough
road to democracy that the Philippines traveled
from the time the United States seized it from
Spain in 1898 to the present day While the
administration often speaks of the occupations of
Japan and Germany after World War II as rough
models for the effort to rebuild Iraq, Mr. Bush
used the visit here to make a less explicit
analogy to the American administration of the
Philippines, which also led to the formation of a
democracy. But the comparison has less power to
reassure, given that the Philippine government
did not gain full autonomy for five decades.
3
U.S. Military Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

4
Outline for Today

• 1. Reasons of Expansion
• 2. War in the Caribbean and the Pacific
• 3. Occupation and Social Darwinism
• 4. Anti-Imperialism

5
1. Reasons of Expansion
6
Reasons for expansion

• 1. Official liberate Cuba and the Philippines
• 2. Fear of competition with Europe
• 3. Need for new markets and sources for raw
  materials
• 4. Need for military bases

7
USS Maine in Havana, 1898
8
Wreck of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor,
March 17-April 1, 1898
9
William Randolph Hearst newspapers promoted
Spanish-American War, 1898
10
Hearst and Pulitzer make war
11
2. War in the Caribbean and the Pacific
12
Spanish-American War The Caribbean, 1898
13
Spanish-American War The Pacific, 1898
14
Territories acquired in 1898
The Philippines achieved independence in
1946Hawaii traditional territory, admitted as
a state in 1959Guam unincorporated
territory, administered by US Navy until
1950Puerto Rico Commonwealth, US citizenship
extended in 1917 but cannot elect US Presidents
15
3. Occupation and Social Darwinism
16
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
17
Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders, photo
18
Teddy Roosevelts Rough Riders, drawing depicts
no black troops
19
Colored Troops Disembarking, 1898 (actual footage)
20
Rudyard Kiplings The White Mans Burden
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. Take up the White Man's burden!
Have done with childish days-- The
lightly-proffered laurel, The easy
ungrudged praise Comes now, to search your
manhood Through all the thankless
years, Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgment of your peers.
21
The White Mans Burden, Judge, 1890s
22
President William McKinley civilizing Filipinos
23
Filipino casualties on the first day of
Philippine-American War
24
Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan, 1899
(reenacted by New Jersey National Guard)
25
4. Anti-Imperialism
26
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League
Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate
27
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League
Grover Cleveland, former president
28
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League
Samuel Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor
29
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League Ida
B. Wells-Barnett, anti-lynching reformer and
co-founder of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, founded in
1909)
30
Co-founders of the Anti-Imperialist League Jane
Addams, founder of the Hull House, co-founder of
the NAACP
31
Mark Twain, the Leagues Vice-President in
1901-1910, as a savage, Minneapolis Journal
32
Occupation as an educational project
33
U.S. Presidents, 1877-Present
Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881 James Garfield,
1881 Chester Arthur, 1881-1885 Grover Cleveland,
1885-1889 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1993 Grover
Cleveland, 1993-1997 William McKinley,
1897-1901 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 William
H. Taft, 1909-1913 Woodrow Wilson,
1913-1921 Warren Harding, 1921-1923 Calvin
Coolidge, 1923-1929 Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Harry Truman,
1945-1953 Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961 John F.
Kennedy, 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson,
1963-1969 Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 Gerald Ford,
1974-77 Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Ronald Reagan,
1981-1989 George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 William J.
Clinton, 1993-2001 George W. Bush, 2001-present