HONORS U.S. HISTORY: IMPERIALISM
Resources.
A People and A Nation, Chapter 22
500 Nations film excerpts
Savage Acts film
Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag (1898)
Alfred T. Mahan on Sea Power, 1890
William Jennings Bryan, First Speech Against Imperialism, 1898
Samuel Gompers, Imperialism – Its Dangers and Wrongs, 1898
class notes and activities
Imperialism: Key Questions.
1. How did the U.S. government’s international policy change between George Washington
and the late 19th century? (basic overview of key policies)
2. How can we understand expansion across the U.S. continent as ‘imperialism’ and in what
ways was the U.S. government’s role significant?
3. How did pro-imperialists justify the U.S.’ actions? How did anti-imperialists explain their
positions? Consider political, economic, cultural, gender, and racial ideologies.
4. Why did the U.S. pursue expansion overseas and how did this impact the local populations?
5. How do the World’s Fairs of the late 19th and early 20th century reflect the range of U.S.
attitudes towards imperialism?
Key Terms from APAN, Chapter 22.
Hawaiian Constitution 1887
manifest destiny (Ch. 13)
annexation
paternalism
racial hierarchy
New Navy
Venezuelan crisis 1895
Tariff 1894
“yellow press”
Teller Amendment
Treaty of Paris 1898
Open Door Policy
Philippine Insurrection
Great White Fleet
Platt Amendment
Panamanian revolution
McKinley Tariff of 1890
expansion
nationalism
ethnocentric
male ethos and imperialism
Turner’s frontier thesis
Monroe Doctrine
Cuban Revolution
the Maine
Spanish American War
anti-imperialists’ arguments
Boxer Rebellion
Jones Act 1916
“dollar diplomacy”
Puerto Rico & U.S.
Roosevelt Corollary
Hawaiian revolution
imperialism
exceptionalism
hegemony
Alfred T. Mahan
Hawaiian-annexation
Jose Marti
Spanish “reconcentration”
McKinley’s war message
George Dewey
pro-imperialists’
Emilio Aguinaldo
Japan’s expansion
United Fruit Company
Panama Canal
U.S. investments in Mexico
Homestead Act of 1862
Indian rings
the “Indian Question”
boarding schools
Also for “the West”
Indian Removal Act
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
Be able to locate the following on a map: China, Cuba, Hawaii, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico