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• Expansionism v. Imperialism

• Formal v. Informal Empire

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• American Foreign Policy Before 1890s– Monroe Doctrine (1823)

• Why Overseas Involvement in the 1890s– Closing of the internal frontier– Desire to acquire overseas markets– Racial nationalism (“civilizing mission”)

• A progressive urge?

– Prestige factor• Alfred Thayer Mahan

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• Spanish-American War: an important break with previous patterns of U.S. expansion

• Cuba and the Spanish-American War of 1898– Cuban revolution (“Butcher Weyler”)

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Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine – February 1898

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• Teller Amendment

• “A splendid little war”

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• Acquisition of colonies: Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

• Anti-Imperialist League

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• Platt Amendment and Cuban independence

• Filipino-American War– Emilio Aguinaldo– Insular Cases (1901)– Balangiga– Gen. Jacob Smith

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• Creating a New American Foreign Policy– Teddy Roosevelt and Big-Stick Diplomacy in

Latin America• Panama and the Canal Zone

• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Haitian Occupation: 1915-1934

James Weldon Johnson Warren G. Harding

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trr39.html

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– William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy– Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy