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U.S. Imperialism
“The White Man’s Burden”
Chapter 27 review
The Industrial Revolution &
Imperialism
• American industry and product production
rose as a result of the Industrial
Revolution.
• Americans could not buy all the goods the
country was producing = looked to foreign
markets
• In order to reach far off places, the U.S.
need to build………??????
•
YES SHIPS!!!!!
Alfred Thayer Mahan- advocate of building a
strong Navy.
1. increasing production demanded
we expanded overseas for new markets
2. make sure no nation owns islands
within three thousand miles of San
Francisco.
3. A powerful Navy must be built
Former American possessions- The following areas have at one time
or another been under the control of the United States of America
and have not been fully incorporated into the country as states.
• American Samoa (1900-)
• Cuba (1899-1902, -now independent; however, Guantanamo Bay
remains under the control of the U.S. military)
• Dominican Republic (occupied 1916-1924)
• Guam (1898-present, obtained by treaty with Spain following the
Spanish-American War)
• Haiti (occupied 1915-1934)
• Liberia 1820-1847, now independent)
• Panama Canal Zone (1903-1979) (now part of Panama)
• Philippines 1898-1946, now independent.
• Puerto Rico 1898-1952, now a US commonwealth
• U.S. Virgin Islands (1917-)
How did the U.S. justify
Imperialism???
• Americans and Europeans claimed it was
their responsibility as the “superior races”
to uplift, civilize and Christianize native
peoples (Social Darwinism again)
• White Mans Burden
White Mans Burden
• Using the provided
picture, what do you
believe is the white mans
burden?
Imperialist Views
U.S. in the Caribbean
America in the Virgin Islands
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•
Named by Christopher Columbus in
1493. Only U.S. Territory where
traffic drives on the left .
In 1917 during WWI, the United
States bought the Islands and they
became a territory.
What is a Territory???
• The people who live on the islands are U.S.
citizens, but cannot vote in U.S. Presidential
elections, but can vote in primaries.
• The residents have been given the choice of
independence or statehood.
America’s Interest in Cuba
• Sugar and $$$
• Control of the Gulf of Mexico
• Cubans revolted against Spanish
oppressors= endangered America’s
economic interest
Chapter 11.2
War with Spain
• Cuba
– 1895 civil war broke out in Cuba between
Spain & the Cubans
• Valeriano “The Butcher” Weyler- sent by Spain to
end revolt
– Forced thousands of farmers into concentration
camps & shot anyone who was outside of the
city
– 200,000 died from starvation and disease
– U.S. papers reported- …
• ….BLOOD ON THE ROADSIDES,
BLOOD IN THE VILLAGES, BLOOD,
BLOOD, BLOOD!”
The Yellow
Press
• William Randolph
Hearstand the Yellow
Press
– Spanish minister to US wrote a The
DeLome letter saying Pres McKinley was
“weak & a bidder for the admiration of
the crowd”
– Cuban spy found the letter, sold it to
Hearst
– U.S. Media pushes the nation into a war
against Spain
• America sends a fleet to Cuba to protect its
interests
Remember the Main!
to hell with Spain!
• U.S.S Maine exploded in Havana harbor on Feb
15, 1898
– Spanish mine blamed for the explosion…true?
- William Randolph Hearst tells photographers
“you furnish the pictures…I’ll furnish the war!”
• U.S. declares war against Spain on Feb. 25, 1898
Fighting in the Philippines
• 1st battle of the war
fought in the Spanish
colonies of the Philippines
• Commodore George
Dewey
• US attacked Spanish navy
at Manilia Bay
– Spanish navy fleet
destroyed in minutes!
– Spain surrendered in Aug
1898
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Rough Riders In Cuba
• Military unit commanded by Leonard Wood and organized by
Theodore Roosevelt
– 1000 college athletes, cowboys, American Indians, & ranchers
– charged on foot
– Most soldiers were half naked
-July 3- Entire Spanish fleet sunk & no damage
done to U.S. ships the war ends!
• Majority of soldiers died due to disease
and bacteria not bullets
Results of the war
• Teller Amendment- U.S. would give Cuba its
freedom if it overthrew Spanish rule.
• Spain looses Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines
to the U.S.
• US pays $20 million for Philippines
• Each new land is ruled in a different manner
Chapter 11.3
Expansion in Cuba
• Built schools & sanitation systems
• tried to reduce mosquito pop.
• Leonard Wood- appointed Gov. of Cuba to restore
order and protect interests
– New constitution limited Cuba’s independence
– U.S. would remove troops if Cuba accepted Platt
Amendment
–Platt Amendment
•Limits Cuba’s right to make treaties
•US was “parent”
•Lease land to US for navy purposes
– US would be “protectorate” of Cuba
•Cuba signed it; lasted until the Great
Depression
Independent Cuba
• 1902 U.S. makes Cuba a republic
• 1930’s taken over by dictator Batista after U.S.
withdraws interest
• 1959 Fidel Castro takes over and makes
alliance with Communist Russia = hard feelings
between the U.S.
Ernesto (Che) Guevara
and Fidel Castro
• 1956 Castro and Guevara plot to overthrow
Batista
• 1959 Fidel Castro takes over and makes
alliance with Communist Russia = hard feelings
between the U.S.
Murder of Che
• Killed at 39 years old in 1967
• “Shoot, coward, you're only going to kill a
man"