Chapter 27

The Path of Empire (1890-1899)

 overseas more and more

a. Influenced by yellow press
i. Joseph Pulitzer
b. Missionaries
c. Farmers trading
d. New steel navy
e. Gold discovered in Venezuela
i. Almost spurred a war btwn B and US.
f. Hawaii
i. Shipping
ii. Station for provisions
iii. Navy bases for Americans
1. Pearl Harbor
iv. Sugar Platations
1. Effected by McKinley Tariff
a. Trade barriers and restrictions
b. High duties on imports
c. Why not just give it to the us
v. Give to America?
1. Started by Harrison
2. Not now..
3. Cleveland decides not to
4. Annexation probes first full-fledged imperialistic debate
5. Gets citizenship in 1900
g. Cuba
i. Revolts
1. Scorched earth policy against spain
2. Insurrectos
3. America wants to help but Cleveland doesn’t
ii. Maine
1. Battleship
2. To protect and evacuate Americans
3. Blew up in Havana harbor on Feb 15 1898
a. Spanish say accident, we say missile
b. Finally found out it was internal
iii. McKinley reluctantly declares war.
iv. Teller Amendment
1. When us gets hold of cuba, the Cubans will be free
v. Am attack spain’s Philippines
1. Comadore George Dewey
2. May 1, 1898
3. Manila Harbor
vi. Fleet of ships sent to cuba
1. Admiral Cervera
2. “rough riders”
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. Part of the army
c. Went to tampa also
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The Path of Empire (1890-1899)

d. Commanded by leonard wood

e. When the war ended, took over government
i. Worked wonders
vii. August 1898 Spain signs armistice
viii. Disease common among Americans
ix. US withdrawals in 1902
x. Plat Amendment
1. Cuban const
2. Us can intervene protection, troops, restore order
3. Cuba to lease naval and coaling stations
h. Results of the war
i. Pact of Paris
ii. Cuba free
iii. America gets Guam and Puerto Rico
iv. America keeps Philippines
1. Am pays 20M
i. Anti-Imperialist League
i. Against expansionism + McKinley
ii. Patriotism
j. Puerto Rico
i. Many in poverty
ii. Foraker Act of 1900
1. Limited government
2. Would have US citizenship in 1917
k. Insular Cases
i. 1901
ii. The flag does outrun the constitution
iii. Newly Acquired land did not have full force of the const.
1. American rule but not American rights