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Agenda
• Warm up: White man’s
burden
• Causes of US imperialism
Guiding Questions
• How did the White Man’s
burden propel US
imperialism?
• How did Americans react to
Imperialism?
Warm up
Example 2: Life, 1899
Racial Theories
• http://video.pbs.org/video/2365053190/
• 3:09
• How did racial theories propel US
Imperialism?
American Imperialism: Economic motivations
• Crisis of 1893-97: Railroad overbuilding and
stock market collapse. 17% unemployment
• US and European markets limited, so the US
looked for new markets to expand into
Ideological motivations
• Missionary work: spread the faith
• Nationalism and desire for empire: pride and
power!
• White Man’s Burden  white man’s duty to
provide for more backward races
Philippine-American War
• After the Spanish American
war, Spain gave its colony of
the Philippines to the United
States
• Philippine-American war last
three years (1899-1902) and
resulted in the death of over
4,200 Americans and over
20,00 Filipino combatants.
200,000 Filipinos civilians
died.
• Brutal war. The US
burned villages, tortured
suspected guerilla
warriors, and forced
Filipinos into
concentration camps
which one camp
commander called “the
suburbs of Hell.”
• Filipino fighters also
tortured soldiers and
terrorized civilians who
cooperated with
American forces
US Imperialism was incredibly controversial!
Concluding discussion
• How is America depicted differently by
advocates and critics of American expansion?
• What do these cartoons tell you about
America in the 1890s?
• Do you see images like this today? Why or why
not?