IMPERIALISM PRIMARY/SECONDARY SOURCES
From the sources provided, name the event the quote is referring to and fully explain the meaning and
context of the provided quote. Analyze the source in a complete sentence!
“How long shall the United States sit idle and indifferent within sound and hearing of rapine and
murder?” (in Cuba)
- New York Morning Journal, 1898
1. EVENT: ____________________________________ (591)
2. QUOTE: ____________________________________________________________________________
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“Both newspapers reported exaggerated and sometimes false stories about the events in Cuba in order
to increase circulation”
- Cayton (America – PTP Secondary Source)
3. EVENT: ____________________________________ (591)
4. QUOTE: ____________________________________________________________________________
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“We cannot avoid the responsibilities that confront us in Hawaii, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the
Philippines…If we stand idly by, if we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink
from the hard contests where men must win at hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear,
then the bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the
world.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life 1899
5. EVENT: ____________________________________ (593 – 595: blue headings will help)
6. QUOTE: ____________________________________________________________________________
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“Besides being a rough-riding assault upon another republic over the shattered wreckage of
international law…, it is a quite unexampled instance of foul play in American politics.”
- William Hearst
7. EVENT: ____________________________________ (599)
8. QUOTE: ____________________________________________________________________________
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“If I had followed traditional, conservative methods I would have submitted a dignified State paper of
probably 200 pages to Congress and the debates on it would have been going on yet; but I took the
(Panama) Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on the canal does also.”
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1911
9. EVENT: ____________________________________ (599)
10. QUOTE: ____________________________________________________________________________
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