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7.2 Identify consequences of American
imperialism (i.e. Spanish American War,
expanding trade, extractive economies, Panama Canal, the idea of a superior AngloSaxon culture, yellow journalism, military occupation).
Chapter 7, Section 2
The Spanish – American War
April 24th – August 1898
VS.
Philippines
Cuba
Americans back Cuban Rebels!!!
Jose Marti led rebellion that eventually took control of Eastern Cuba
Most American sympathized… saw the Cubans as gaining independence from Spain
Why do you think
the U.S. is
interested in
Cuba’s business?
Jose Marti
What are the 4 Causes of the Spanish-American War?
De Lome’s Letter
Yellow Journalism
USS Maine
Jingoism
Yellow Journalism fires Americans up!!!
Sensationalist reporting Reporters write
exaggerated stories or lie to attract readers“The Spanish feed Cuban
prisoners to sharks and dogs!”
“Blood on the roadsides, blood in the fields, blood on the doorsteps, blood, blood, blood!”
Joseph Pulitzer William Randoph Hearst
VS.
New York Journal
The World
1.
“Remember the Maine”
USS Maine sinks off the coast of Cuba
Most Americans think the Spanish bombed the Maine because they’re told
by the newspapers Most likely a coal
bunker in the ship blew up (Accident!!)
2.
DeLome’s Letter Enrique Deputy De Lome,
Spanish Ambassador to the United States
His letter was intercepted Insulted President
McKinleySaid McKinley was “weak
and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd.”
3.
President McKinley
Jingoism "extreme patriotism in
the form of aggressive foreign policy“.
Republican PartyWanted to go to war to
win 1900 election (President Theodore Roosevelt)
4.
“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”
-- Teddy Roosevelt
Spanish-American War April 24, 1898 to August 1898
Rough Riders take San Juan Hill!
Teddy Roosevelt
Who Won the Spanish-
American War???
Treaty of Paris, 1898 December 10, 1898 Cuba gets independence U.S. acquires Puerto Rico and Guam The U.S. pays $20 million for Philippines
Formally ended Spanish-American War
Cuba
Becomes an American Protectorate after the passage of the Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico …
should Puerto
Rico become a
state? page 275
Philippines
China
The Philippines We did to the
Filipinos exactly what the Spanish had done to Cuba, which threw us into war!!
Hypocritical
Anti-Imperialists (against what??)
Samuel
Gompers
“The COST of an empire is more than what would be gained”
Andrew
Carnegie
“The cheap overseas wages will hurt American capitalism”
Mark Twain
“Imperialism is not an American principle… we’re based on FREEDOM!”
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