america enters the world expansionism v. imperialism formal v. informal empire
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AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
• Expansionism v. Imperialism
• Formal v. Informal Empire
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
• 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
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
• 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”)
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
Sinking of the U.S.S. Maine – February 1898
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
• Teller Amendment
• “A splendid little war”
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
• 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
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
• 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
AMERICA ENTERS THE WORLD
– William Taft and Dollar Diplomacy– Woodrow Wilson and Moral Diplomacy