Chapter 22

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

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The United States Looks Abroad

• By the 19 th Century, many Americans were looking to extend their reach abroad:

– Protestant Missionaries

– Businessmen

– Imperialists

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Protestant Missionaries

• Focused mainly on China

• Christian duty

• “Civilizing”

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Businessmen

• Exports of American manufactured goods rise after 1880

– American tobacco sold 1 billion cigarettes to China

• James J. Hill

• Frederick Jackson Turner

– “The Significance of the Frontier in American History"

• Senator Albert Beveridge

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Leading U.S. Exports, 1875 and 1915

Imperialists

• U.S. should be imperial nation like Britain,

France, Germany, and Russia

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

– The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890)

• “Big navy” policy

• Pago Pago, Samoa and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

• Hawaii

– Queen Liliuokalani

• “Jingoism“

• War and imperialism attempt to revive frontier like masculinity

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The Spanish-American War

• Cuban Revolution (1895)

– Valeriano Weyler

• “Yellow journalism"

– William Randolph Hearst

– Joseph Pulitzer

• de Lôme letter

Maine

• Teller Amendment

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“A Splendid Little War”

• Main reason for U.S. victory was naval superiority

• American soldiers racial perceptions of Cubans confused and they refused to work with Cubans

• George Dewey

– Manila

• Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders"

– Kettle Hill and Negro Infantry

– San Juan Hill

• Spanish Atlantic fleet destroyed, Spain surrenders

• Treaty of Paris, 1898

– U.S. gets Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines

– U.S. pays $20 million

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The United States Becomes a

World Power

• McKinley casts his lot with imperialists

• Hawaiian annexation (1898)

• Lands gained from Spain colonies not territories

• Philippines

– Emilio Aguinaldo

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The Debate over the Treaty of

Paris

• Anti-Imperialist League

• William Jennings Bryan and southern and western democrats

– Against proposed acquisition of Philippines

• An assault on Filipinos’ rights

• Businessmen and laborers feared competition from Philippines

• Maintaining outposts more expensive than economic benefit

• Racist motives not to contaminate America

• Filipinos revolt, Anti-Imperialists lose

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The American-Filipino War

• 4 years of fighting between U.S. soldiers and Filipino rebels

• Were American actions in Philippines any different than those of Spain in Cuba?

• Arthur MacArthur

• William Howard Taft

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Controlling Cuba and Puerto

Rico

• Leonard Wood

• Platt Amendment

• Foraker Act (1900)

– Unincorporated territory

– Insular cases

• Caribbean becoming an “American

Mediterranean”

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China and the “Open Door”

• Other countries controlled China’s trade through spheres of influence

• John Hay

– “Open Door" policy

• Boxer Rebellion (1900)

• 2 nd Open Door notes

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Theodore Roosevelt,

Geopolitician

• Driving force in U.S. foreign policy

• Roosevelt believed the nation, like an individual, must strive for greatness

– Americans were racially superior and destined for supremacy in economic and political affairs

– Shrewd analyst of international affairs

– No patience for small countries’ claims to sovereignty or human rights of weak peoples

• Latin America, Africa, Asia (except Japan) were inferior

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The Roosevelt Corollary

• Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

• Venezuela

• Dominican Republic

• Roosevelt’s interventions concerned with stability not democratic institutions or social justice

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The Panama Canal

• Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901)

• Hay-Herran Treaty (1902)

• Philippe Bunau-Varilla

• Panamanian revolt and the U.S.S.

Nashville

• Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)

– “The treaty which no Panamanian signed”

• Building canal impressive test of American ingenuity and willpower

• Strategic importance of canal increased U.S. determination to preserve order in Central

America

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Keeping the Peace in East Asia

• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

– Treaty of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (1905)

• Taft-Katsura Agreement (1905)

• Root-Takahira Agreement (1908)

• “Gentlemen's agreement" (1907)

• “Great White Fleet”

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William Howard Taft, Dollar

Diplomat

• Philander C. Knox and “Dollar diplomacy”

– Substitute “dollars for bullets”

– Setback in China

– United Fruit

• Nicaragua

– José Santos Zelaya

– Adolfo Diaz

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U.S. Global Investments and Investments in Latin America, 1914

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Woodrow Wilson, Struggling

Idealist

• Wilson intervened in Caribbean more than any

President before

– Haiti and Dominican Republic

• Wilson more concerned with morality and justice than Taft or Roosevelt

• Mexican Revolution: Wilson hopes for democracy

– Francisco Madero

– Victoriano Huerta

– Veracruz (1914)

– Venustiano Carranza and Francisco "Pancho" Villa

– John Pershing

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Conclusion

• Dramatic turns in U.S. foreign policy

– Control of Western Hemisphere

– Moved military and economic power into Asia

– Peoples of Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam,

Cuba, and Colombia were regarded as inferior and denied right to govern themselves

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