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What Kind of Foreign Policy? • “American factories are making more than the American people can use; American soil is producing more than they can consume (buy). Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and shall be ours. We will establish trading posts throughout the world as distributing points for American products. We will cover the ocean with our merchant marine (navy). Great colonies, flying (waving) our flag and trading with us, will grow around our posts of trade. Our institutions will follow our flag on the wings of commerce.” • Source: Albert J. Beveridge, candidate for U.S. Senate from Indiana, 1898 What Kind of Foreign Policy? • The work which the English race began when it colonized North America is destined to go on until every land on the earth’s surface that is not already the seat (location) of an old civilization shall become English in its language, in its religion, in its political habits and traditions, and to a predominant extent (large amount) in the blood of its people. The day is at hand when four-fifths of the human race will trace its pedigree (lineage, ancestors) to English forefathers, as four-fifths of the white people of the United States trace their pedigree today. • Source: John Fiske, Harvard University professor of history, 1885 Good Afternoon! 1. Debrief Sub/Return Tests 2. Review American Foreign Policy 3. Spanish-American War Essential Question: Why did the United States go to war against Spain in 1898? Homework: Work on Muckraker Project Last Friday’s Inquiry… • What type of foreign policy should America pursue at the turn of the century? Foreign Policy Spectrum Contextualize • At this point in American history, how did some Americans seem to view the other nations and peoples of the world? What did they seem to think was America’s place in the world? Spanish-American War • Spanish-American War – 1898 US goes to war with Spain – War begins in the Spanish colony of Cuba • Cubans fighting Spain for their independence and US intervenes • Spanish-American War turns US into a major world power – Gain control of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba Why did the United States go to war against Spain in 1898?