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WARM UP 3/7
 What is the term for when white Americans forced Native Americans to adopt white culture?
 Name three new inventions that came about during the Gilded Age, and their impact on society.
 Explain Social Darwinism in terms of business and in the new terms of human interaction (from yesterday)
 Name the three presidents during American Imperialism, and the names of their foreign diplomacy.
PUERTO RICO
1900 - Foraker Act.
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Puerto Rico became an “unincorporated territory.”
Citizens of PR, not of the US.
Import duties on PR goods
President appoints governor and key legislators
Remember
PR was a
territory of
Spain
1917 – Jones Act.
 Gave full territorial status to PR.
 Removed tariff duties on PR goods coming into the US.
 PRs elected their
own legislators &
governor to enforce
local laws.
 PRs could NOT vote
in US presidential
elections.
 A resident commissioner was sent to Washington to vote for PR
in the House.
Relationship Today:
-It isn’t a state- it’s a
commonwealth
-they are U.S. citizens!
-Gov. of PR is highest
office in the land
-US dollar, flag,etc.
SIGNIFICANCE
 Puerto Rico goes from being territory of Spain to one of
the U.S. Even today Puerto Ricans are considered U.S.
citizens!
CUBA
 Gave Cubans food, clothing, eliminated yellow
fever
 Teller Amendment (1898)
 US will have no plans to take over Cuba
and remove all troops
 “TELL ‘ER WE DON’T WANT HER”
 U.S. military remained in Cuba until 1902
Platt Amendment (1903)
Why: Americans didn’t think Cuba could rule itself
US kept its military forces in Cuba until the country agreed to
adopt the Platt measures
Terms of the Platt Amendment:
1.
US had the right to intervene in Cuba
2.
US could buy or lease land for naval bases
Protectorate: When one country controls certain aspects of
another country’s affairs
Senator
Orville Platt
SIGNIFICANCE
 U.S. doesn’t want another country controlling Cuba, so we keep
some control.
THE PHILLIPINES
PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR
 1899: Filipinos rebel
 Led by Emilio Aguinaldo
 U.S put Filipinos in camps
 Poor sanitation, starvation, mistreated and abused,
and disease killed thousands
 Many of 70K troops sent were African
Americans.
 Some joined Filipinos because could not stand
spreading racial injustice
 Took 3 years to end the bloody revolt
 20K Filipino died, 4K US; cost $400mill- 20x
what they paid
Emilio
Aguinaldo
SIGNIFICANCE
 Philippines not completely independent until 1946. It cost U.S. $400
million to fight this war (20X what they paid for the land)
JAPAN
 Japan had developed
into a major economic
power after 1854, the
year Commodore
Mathew Perry ended
Japan’s isolation by
negotiating a treaty
opening two Japanese
ports to ships from the
United States.
JAPAN (RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR)
 Great White Fleet: Teddy Roosevelt parades 16 American navy ships
around the world to show off our military strength
 Russo-Japanese War: Russia & Japan in a war over Korea- Japan asks
TR to negotiate.
SIGNIFICANCE
 U.S. acting as a big time world power- we are now
looked at as a country that can mediate disputes
between other countries.
CHINA
CHINA
Spheres of influence: countries can only
trade in certain areas of China (their
“sphere”
Policy created by Secretary John Hay.
Give all nations equal
access to trade in China.
Guaranteed that China would NOT be taken
over by any one foreign power.
OPEN DOOR POLICY
 Reflected these beliefs:
1.
Growth of US economy depended on exports
2.
US had right to intervene to keep foreign markets
open
3.
Closing an area to US producers threatened
survival
THE BOXER REBELLION 1900
 The Boxers
 A secret society determined to
rid China of foreigners
 Boxers killed hundreds of
foreigners and Chinese
Christians
 Aug. 1900: Multinational force
put down rebellion in two
months
SIGNIFICANCE
 Shows how native people around the world resent American
imperialism/dislike foreign involvement in their home country.
PANAMA
PANAMA CANAL
WORK BEGAN IN 1881, COMPLETED IN 1914
 Man Made ditch cutting across
central America.
 U.S. Paid Panama $10 million + an
annual rent of $250,000 to build the
canal
SIGNIFICANCE
 U.S. controls the Panama Canal until 1999. Helps make trade
much faster!
MEXICO
MEXICAN REBELLION
 Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata led a rebellion
against new Mexican President Carranza
 Villa many times asked the U.S. for help
 After U.S. recognized Carranza, Villa threatened
vengeance
 January 1916: Took American engineers off a train and
killed them
 February: Killed 17 Americans in New Mexico–
burned things along the way!
Francisco “Pancho” Villaburns New Mexico because he
is upset with President Wilson
THE CHASE FOR “PANCHO”
 Wilson sent 15,000 under Gen. John Pershing to
capture or kill Pancho Villa
 Mexicans upset at US invasion
 June 1916: Mexican army and US troops fought
with deaths on both sides
 1917: US ordered troops home due to World
War I
 Never caught Pancho Villa
Gen. John
Pershing
SIGNIFICANCE
 Pancho Villa was never caught. Many Mexicans angry at the U.S.
Tensions remain one of the motivating factors for US entering
WWI. (Zimmerman Telegram)
ALASKA
 Alaska was purchased by the United States
from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million
 This equates to only $0.02 cents per acre!
 William Seward – United States secretary
of state from 1861-1869 who negotiated the
purchase of Alaska
Seward’s Ice Box or Seward’s Folly – name
that was mockingly given to the purchase of
Alaska.
Many people felt that it was a waste of money,
that Alaska was nothing but tundra
Why were they wrong? – Alaska is rich
in natural resources
Timber
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Gold
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Oil
HAWAII
Hawaii – annexed in 1898
Why was Hawaii important?
 Economically – link between
the U.S. and the Pacific
 Militarily – Great natural
harbor for the navy
How did the U.S. acquire Hawaii?
Queen Liliʻuokalani was
thrown from power by the
Committee of Safety, an all white
group of Hawaiians. The U.S. sends a
company of marines and the queen
resigned. Hawaii was annexed by William
McKinley in 1898