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Title: Imperialism


1
Imperialism
  • 1890 1909

2
United States Expansion
3
Uncle Sam and People From his Colonies, c. 1900
4
Cubra Libre by Captian Fritz W. Guerin
  • Stage picture depicts Confederate and Union
    officers reconciled three decades after the civil
    war to defeat Cuba from her chains of bondage

5
America Turns Outward
  • Expansion farmers/factory owners want new
    markets
  • Americentrism power generated by population,
    wealth and industrial production
  • Yellow Press manly adventures Hearst
  • Missionaries Josiah Strong souls to harvest
    ethnocentrism
  • Social Darwinism Lodge and Roosevelt
  • Exploiting China Japan, Russia, Germany, and
    the US
  • Mahan Steel navy key to world dominance
  • Spurred demands for an isthmian canal

6
America Turns Outward Cont
  • Big Sister Policy in Latin America pushed by
    Sec. State James Blaine
  • Samoa US vs. Germany
  • 11 Italians lynched in New Orleans
  • 2 American Sailors died in Chile, agreed to pay
    indemnity
  • US vs. Canada seal hunting
  • Willingness of America to risk war for distant
    minor disputes demonstrated new aggressive
    foreign policy
  • US Invokes Monroe Doctrine in Venezuela inform
    Britian that US is now calling the shots in
    Western Hemisphere
  • Great Rapprochment (Reconciliation between the
    two nations)
  • Shift from twisting the lions tale to patting
    the eagles head

7
Spurning the Hawaiian Pear
  • Early 19th Century trade stop for Yankee
    shippers, sailors and whalers
  • 1820s Christian Missionaries Arrive preached
    Christianity and protective Calico (clothing)
  • Important center of sugar production
  • 1840s USSD develops protectionist policies
  • 1887 Pearl Harbor Naval Base Treaty
  • 5/6 of indigenous population died from old world
    disease
  • Asian Immigration for sugar fields and mills
    Chinese and Japanese outnumber indigenous and
    whites mounting worries of Japanese
    intervention
  • McKinley Tarriff -gt barriers for imported sugar
  • Queen Lil block sugar lords efforts to annex
    Hawaii

8
Cubans in Rise Revolt
  • Torched Earth 1895
  • US investment 50 million in Cuba, trade stake
    of 100 mill.
  • Re-concentration camp victims -gt Butcher Weyler
  • Yellow Journalism Hearst and Pulitzer
    -gtsensationalism
  • USS Maine drove war against Spain
  • 1976 US admitted explosion was engine related
  • Spains agreement to armistice and end of
    reconcentration camps did not quell war fervor
  • Teller Amendment place troops, but not annex
    Cuba

9
Deweys May Day Victory
  • Therell Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
  • Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here
  • February 1898 US Declared war on Spain
  • May 1898, Commodore Deweys fleet attacked
    Spanish in the Manila harbor
  • 400 Spanish killed, zero American casualties
  • Reinforcements arrived in August to storm the
    Spanish forts
  • Collaborated with Emilio Aguinaldo, insurgent
    leader, brought out of exile by Dewey to organize
    the Phillipino insurgency
  • Hawaii was quickly annexed in July to provide a
    fueling station for Dewey

10
The Confused Invasion of Cuba
  • Spanish Armada arrived in Cuba, easily blocked by
    American fleet
  • Rough Riders organized principally by Teddy
    Roosevelt
  • Shafters Fleet and Rough Riders captured
    Santiago with the help of the insurgency
  • Next descended on Puerto Rico
  • Spain surrendered on August 12, 1898
  • 400 American died in Battle
  • 5,000 died from either malaria, typhoid fever,
    dysentery, and yellow fever
  • Kennedy hypothesizes that if Spanish had held out
    longer, Americans would have succumbed to
    tropical disease

11
  • Oh dewy was the morning
  • Upon the first of May,
  • And Dewey was the Admiral
  • Down in Manila Bay
  • And dewy were the Spaniards eyes,
  • Them orbs of black and blue
  • And dew we feel discouraged?
  • I dew not think we dew.

12
Americas Course (Curse?) of Empire
  • Late 1898 Americans met Spanish in Paris
  • Cuba provided sovereignty
  • Captured Guam from Spain w/o their initial
    knowledge
  • Spain ceded Puerto Rico to US for war reparations
    (first territory annexed without the promise of
    statehood)
  • Who pays the cost of war?
  • McKinleys Philippine Dilemma
  • sovereignty (anarchy?), return to Spain,
    occupation/protection, possible German and
    Spanish occupation
  • Claimed inner voice said take the Philippines and
    Christianize them - decided on annexation
  • Manilla taken a day after armistice America
    agreed to pay 20 million

13
Course of Curse Cont
  • Anti-Imperialists
  • Harvard Professor William James
  • Destroys Americas commitment to
    self-determination and anti-colonialism
  • Speaker of House Thomas Czar resigned
  • Anti-Imperialist League
  • President of Stanford/Harvard and Mark Twain
  • Would violate constitution and Dec. of Ind.
  • Expensive and not turn a profit
  • Carnegie and Mellon
  • Imperialists
  • Civilizing Mission
  • Manila the next Hong Kong
  • Kipling White Mans Burden
  • Wealthy Americans must uplift the underfed, and
    undercard world
  • America approved the treaty of Spain amidst
    protests in 1899
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