The document discusses U.S. expansion and imperialism from 1867 to 1905. It outlines the intellectual and strategic motivations for expansion, including the Monroe Doctrine and ideas of Manifest Destiny. Key events discussed include the purchase of Alaska, annexation of Hawaii, the Spanish-American War over Cuba, the Philippine Insurrection, and increased U.S. interventions in Latin America through policies like the Platt Amendment and the creation of the Panama Canal.

1. America Joins the World Stage U.S. Foreign Policy 1867-1905

2. Causes of U.S. Imperialism Moving West/Taking land

3. U.S. Territorial Expansion

4. Causes of U.S. Imperialism Moving West/Taking land Intellectual/Beliefs Monroe Doctrine Manifest Destiny American Exceptionalism

5. Seward’s Folly Alaska Purchased 1867 $7.2 m. (12 cents/acre) new American Empire?!

6. Seward’s Folly Alaska Purchased 1867 $7.2 m. (12 cents/acre) new American Empire?! Our new Capital?!?

7. Causes Intellectual/Beliefs Monroe Doctrine Manifest Destiny American Exceptionalism Social Darwinism White Man’s Burden Religious Political Economic Influence of Sea Power... Alfred Thayer Mahan

8. Alfred Thayer Mahan

9. Causes Intellectual/Beliefs Monroe Doctrine Manifest Destiny American Exceptionalism Social Darwinism White Man’s Burden Religious Political Economic Influence of Sea Power... Alfred Thayer Mahan markets for goods/trade

10. Taking Hawaii Queen Liliuokalani removed from throne in 1893

11. Sanford Dole engineered removal of Hawaii Queen Liliuokalani ordered to return Hawaii stays as Pres./Gov. until 1903

12. Revolution in Cuba Cuba was a Spanish colony Cubans fought Spanish from 1868 on & off Americans view

13. Revolution in Cuba Feb. 1895 new rebellion starts led by Jos é Martí destroy Spanish & U.S. sugar fields Spain out U.S. help? Martí was killed (G. Washington of Cuba)

14. America’s Position Most Americans supported the Cubans American Revolution Monroe Doctrine Washington’s Neutrality

15. Causes of SPAM: de L ôme Letter Enrique Dupuy de Lôme Spanish ambassador to U.S. Wrote a letter to friends in Cuba Cuban agents seized the letter and gave it to the New York Journal in Feb., 1898 Called President McKinley, “weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd.” Ouch! McKinley/US insulted

16. Causes of SPAM: The U.S.S. Maine Showing the Flag McKinley sends battleship Maine to Havana protect our investments in Cuba Feb. 15, 1898, Maine explodes at the time, thought Spanish mine was cause recently (1999), coal fire/boiler explosion 268 American Sailors died

17. The wreck of the U.S.S. Maine U.S.S. Maine before the explosion

18. U.S.S. Maine Memorial Arlington National Cemetery

19. Causes of SPAM: Yellow Journalism Sensationalized stories to sell papers Joseph Pulitzer: New York World William Randolph Hearst: New York Journal

20. Joseph Pulitzer William Randolph Hearst

23. Spanish Oppression 300,000 Spanish troops sent to Cuba Led by General Valeriano Weyler Nicknamed “The Butcher” Reconcentration camps (300,000) Disease, starvation, brutal treatment about 1/3 died

25. Causes of SPAM new attitudes toward imperialism (mentioned before) de Lome letter sinking of Maine (“ Remember the Maine , to Hell with Spain”) Yellow Journalism/Jingoism Humanitarian concerns

26. War is Declared April 11, 1898, McKinley asked Congress to declare war Teller Amendment  U.S. won’t annex Cuba April 25, U.S. declared war on Spain

28. Major Battles Manilla  May 1, 1898, Commodore Dewey crushes Spanish fleet

31. Major Battles Manilla  May 1, 1898, Commodore Dewey crushes Spanish fleet & takes P & G Santiago, Cuba  June-July, 1898 Rough Riders (TR) take “San Juan Hill”

35. The Splendid Little War 4 months long U.S. deaths = 5,400 but only 379 from combat Treaty of Paris 1898 Cuba indep. US gets Guam, Philippines, & PR US pays $20 m. to Spain

36. Filipino Insurrection 1899-1902 Filipino allies now want U.S. out Emilio Aguinaldo leads guerrilla war

37. Emilio Aguinaldo

38. Filipino Insurrection 1899-1901 Filipino allies now want U.S. out Emilio Aguinaldo leads guerrilla war Filipino deaths = 20,000/200,000+ U.S. deaths = 5,000+/-

39. Open Door Policy 1899 (fails)

40. Platt Amendment 1903 Cuban couldn’t make treaties w/out US approval US has “right to intervene” Naval base at Guantanamo Bay

41. Creating Panama (& then the canal)

42. Colombia/Panama

43. Panama Canal 1881-1888 1904-1914 5600+ U.S. deaths

44. Monroe Doctrine @ Work: U.S. Intervention in Latin America