The chapter discusses America's emergence as an imperial republic in the late 19th/early 20th century, covering topics like rising imperialism, the annexation of Hawaii, the Spanish-American War that resulted in American control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, and the debates around governing new colonial territories. It also addresses the creation of a modern US military system during this time period of expanded international influence.

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Brinkley, The Unfinished
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Chapter Twenty:
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 Stirrings of Imperialism
 The New Manifest Destiny
 Sources of Imperialism
Imperialism at
High Tide, 1900

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Chapter Twenty:
The Imperial Republic
 Stirrings of Imperialism
 The New Manifest Destiny
 Sources of Imperialism
 Alfred Thayer Mahan
“[The navy] sweeps the sea for the service of the land, it
controls the desert that man may live and thrive on the
habitable globe.”
- Alfred Thayer
Mahan

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 Stirrings of Imperialism
 Hemispheric Hegemony
 Venezuelan Dispute
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 Stirrings of Imperialism
 Hawaii & Samoa
 Hawaii Coveted
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 Stirrings of Imperialism
 Hawaii & Samoa
 Hawaii Coveted
 Growing American
Dominance
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Hawaiian Sugar Cane Plantation

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 Stirrings of Imperialism
 Hawaii & Samoa
 Hawaii Coveted
 Growing American Dominance
 Queen Liliuokalani
 Hawaii Annexed
 Pago Pago Taken
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 War with Spain
 Controversy over Cuba
 Cuban Revolt
 “Yellow Press”
“You furnish the pictures…and I’ll furnish
the war”
William Randolph Hearst
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 War with Spain
 Controversy over Cuba
 Cuban Revolt
 “Yellow Press”
 De Lôme Letter
 The Maine
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 War with Spain
 “A Splendid Little War”
 Logistical Difficulties
 Racial Tensions in
the Military
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The Spanish-American
War in Cuba, 1898.

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 War with Spain
 Seizing the Philippines
 Dewey Victorious
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 War with Spain
 The Battle for Cuba
 Theodore
Roosevelt’s
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
(Library of Congress)
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 War with Spain
 The Battle for Cuba
 Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
 Puerto Rico Occupied
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 War with Spain
 Puerto Rico and the United States
 Foraker Act
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 War with Spain
 The Debate over the Philippines
 Annexation Debated
 Anti-Imperialist League
 Supporters of Annexation
 Election of 1900
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 The Republic as Empire
 Governing the Colonies
 Platt Amendment
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 The Republic as Empire
 The Philippine War
 Emilio Aguinaldo
 The Philippines
Brutally Subjugated
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The Imperial Republic
Filipino
Prisoners
(Library of
Congress)

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 The Republic as Empire
 The Philippine War
 Emilio Aguinaldo
 The Philippines Brutally Subjugated
 Gradual Shift to Self-Rule
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 The Republic as Empire
 The Open Door
 Hay’s “Open Door Notes”
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The American South
Pacific Empire, 1900.

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 The Republic as Empire
 The Open Door
 Hay’s “Open Door Notes”
 The Boxer Rebellion
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 The Republic as Empire
 A Modern Military System
 Creation of the Modern Military
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The Imperial Republic

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 America in the World:
Imperialism
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The Imperial Republic