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Chapter 19 section 1
Emily Hoyles
Zack Johnston
Amanda Lightcap
Taylor Moore
Sarah Ditty
Early expansion to the distant East
• American merchants had been visiting Canton
to trade with China since 1785.
• In China the United States was to receive the
best treatment offered by any country .
Trading with Japan
• The United States merchants wanted to trade
with Japan, but this was not easy to arrange.
• Mathew C. Perry tried to improve the
education of midshipmen.
• He refused to deal with minor officials
• He did open trade with Japan.
American trade in Hawaii
• They arrived in Hawaii in the 1790’s.
• 1849 the united states declared that it could
never allow Hawaiian island to pass under the
dominion of any other power.
• President pierce tried to annex of Hawaii in
1854.
• Expansion was no longer a stopped by
sectional rivalry .
Seward pursues expansion
• William H Seward became the secretary of the
states.
• Became champion of expansionist hopes.
• When asked to buy Alaska the jumped at the
chance.
• He pursued the senate to approve the Alaska
treaty on April 19 ,1867 .
The Alabama plains
• One of the knottiest concerned the so called
Alabama claims.
• These were claims for damages to Union
shipping.
• They registered their ships under foreign flags.
The treaty of Washington
• The British refused to take senator Sumner's
claim seriously.
• In 1871 American and British commissioners
signed a treaty of Washington.
• Great Britain violated the international walls
of neutrality.
• The awarded 15.5 million dollars in damages
to the United States.
Napoleon III’s Mexican empire
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In 1863 napoleon III sent an army to Mexico.
He overthrew the Mexican government.
The United States objected.
Summer of 1866 napoleon III removed the
French troops.
• Summer of 1867 he was executed by a
Mexican firing squad.
United States and Samoa
• Remote island of Tutuila.
• American sailors had always been interested
in this island.
• The island was divided between Germany and
United States.
Problems with Chile
• 1889 – first international American
conference in Washington.
• Founded the international bureau of the
American republics.
• United states was an overpowering neighbor.
• In Chile- October 1891- American sailors on
shore leave from the cruiser had been
attacked.
Continued
• The Chilean government refused to apologize
for the attack.
• Later they apologized and agreed to pay
damages to the families of the killed and
wounded sailors.
Section 2
By: Ian Scheller
Dylan Deivert
Jesse Carr
Sea Expansion
• The U.S. was the third strongest navy in the
world.
• The navy’s power had no effect on the
depression, farm revolt, labor unrest, free
silver, and populism.
• The U.S. kept putting its money into the navy
disregarding the nations problems.
Mahan and Sea of Power
• Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan helped set up
the Naval War College being a scholar of war
himself.
• Wrote a book, “The Influence of Sea Power
Upon History.”
• Controlled the Caribbean with his navy.
• Followed by Theodore Roosevelt.
Renewed attempts to annex Hawaii
• In 1891 Queen Liliuoalani came to throne.
• She did not want American settlers to come to
Hawaii.
• January 1893 the settlers with help from U.S.
Marines overthrew the Queen.
• After this event President Grover Cleveland
tried to restore “Queen Lil” to her throne.
• Hawaii was finally annexed after the SpanishAmerican war on July 1898
The Venezuelan Boundary Dispute
• Dispute over British-Venezuelan border.
• President Cleveland believed the Monroe
Doctrine was at stake.
• Lord Salisbury, British prime minister, believed
the Monroe Doctrine was not part of
international law.
• Eventually British gave in so they didn’t have
more problems with fighting other countries
due to the fight over control of South Africa.
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Problems In Cuba
• Rebels in Cuba began agitating for
independence
• People in the United States felt sympathetic
for people in Cuba.
• When Cuban Rebels declared there
independence Spanish government sent in
troops led by General Valeriano
• Presidents tried to acquire the island from
Spain.
• Cuban rebels were tortured and women men
Joseph Pulitzer
• Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian immigrant
that secured his way to the United States by
enlisting in the Union army.
• His energy and enterprise made a fortune in
the newspaper business.
• If there was no startling news he would invent
some.
• To make New York World more interesting he
invented a comic strip, and invented a
cartoonist Richard F. Outcault to draw the
United States Readies for War
• Spain began to negotiate with the United
States about the Cuban’s freedom, it seemed
as if there was no need to fight.
• The Yellow Press printed a stolen letter from
the Spanish Ambassador Dupuy de Lome to
President McKinley saying he was a “weak and
a bitter for the admiration of the crowd.
• Though de Lome quickly resigned, the
Americans were angered by his insults.
United States goes to war
• April 11th the day after President McKinley
learned that Spain would agree to do
everything the Americans wanted he asked
Congress to declare a war.
• The war only lasted a few months, but it was
enough to make the greatest confusion ever.
The Yellow Press
• American news papers insulted General
Weyler’s decisions.
• The Sunday World and The New York Journal
both featured “The Yellow Kid” so they were
called The Yellow Press.
Chapter 19
Section 4
By Shannon Snyder, Natashia Fox,
Tionie Shambach, Jeffrey
Heintzelman, Lisa Watkins
Rough riders
• At a training camp Roosevelt
gathered cowboy sheriffs and
desperadoes from the west and
a sprinkling of playboy polo
players and steeplechase riders
from the east..
Rough Riders!!
• On June 22, Roosevelt's Rough Rider over
rived in Cuba.
• The Rough Riders were in a battle just to
capture Santiago, on their mission they
stormed the hill with out any horses.
• After a long bloody battle they finally
reached their goal.
Theodore Roosevelt!
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Was the governor of New York.
Also known as a Rough Rider.
He was a Vice President candidate.
Once nominated, he threw himself
into the companion with his usual
boyish vigor.
Splendid Little War!
• Was not a normal size war.
• 385 deaths .
• American Revolution lasted 8 years, Civil War
lasted 4 years, Spanish War lasted 4 months.
• John Hay ( future secretary of state) call this war
“Splendid Little War.”
• This war cost about a quarter billion dollars.
• Many of the deaths in this war was from some
kind of war.
Splendid war continued.
• This war was a remarkable change in the
relationships of the U.S. to the world.
• Tides of history were turned.
• Spanish were defeated and they gave up against
the US and Empire of Islands.
• US acquired Puerto Rico at the gateway to the
Caribbean along with Guam.
• American Colonies added up to 100,000 square
miles, holding 10 million people.
• England, France, or Germany had more so the
American Colonies were small.
Splendid war continued.
• Meaning of the American- Spanish war In
American history was actually less in what it
accomplished than in what it proclaimed.
• Spanish- American war at the threshold of the
1900 was our first war of intervention.
• We had joined the old fashion race of empire.
Americans opposed to Empire.
• Feared seizing land in the Pacific might lead to war with
Japan sometime.
• Felt Asians could never be part of Democracy.
• Wondered how US could uphold Declaration of
Independence if it became an empire.
• Labor leader Samuel Gompers, Industrialized Andrew
Carnegie, President Charlie W Eliot of Harvard and
president David Starr Jordan of standard ford, Philosopher
William James, Social worker Jane Addams, popular writer
Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan.
• Filipinos did not want to be ruled by the US or Spain, they
fought against the Americans.
Americans opposed to Empire.
• Minkinley was renominated by the
republicans in Philadelphia in 1900.
• Democrats met at Kansas City on
independence day and nominated William
Jennings Bryan.
• Americans were worried/sad/angry , calling
themselves “ Anti- Imperialists” because they
hated to see the US become an empire.
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Jasmine Jackson, Curtis Braswell, Josh
Foust
The Reorganization of Cuba
• The U.S. was running a colonial empire.
• The administration began setting up
governments for the former Spanish islands
• The teller amendment was attached to congress
war resolution April 20 1898
• It pledged that the U.S. would exercise
sovereignty over Cuba.
• They would leave government of the island to
its people.
The Reorganization of Cuba (continued)
• U.S troops did not leave.
• Among the troops was General Leonard
Wood.
• The ruins wrought by the revolution were
repaired.
• A school system was organized.
• Peace lasted while the Cubans wrote up a new
constitution.
• People were weakened and dying of the
The Reorganization of Cuba (continued)
• Major Walter Reed headed a commission of
the Army Medical Corps.
• They proves that Yellow Fever was carried by a
mosquito which bred in stagnant waters.
• They helped cure the disease so Cuba could
prosper.
• The U.S. wanted certain assurances before it
would withdrawal its army from Cuba.
A New Status for Puerto Rico
• Puerto Rico had a population of almost 1
million citizens that were willing to come
under control of the U.S.
• The Foraker Act of April 1900 organized Puerto
Rico as a compromise between a colony and a
territory.
• A president appoint a governor and a council
of 11, including 5 Puertoricans.
• Puertoricans would elect a legislature of 35
people.
The Open Door in China
• On the other side of the world the new
imperial powers were trying to occupy new
lands.
• After China was defeated by Japan in a war
through 1894-1895, the country lay at mercy
of the great powers.
• China was cut up into spears of influence.