THE SPANISHAMERICAN AND PHILIPPINEAMERICAN WARS

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THE SPANISH-AMERICAN AND PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WARS
The United States got into the Spanish-American
war to demonstrate its great power status through
military victory. After the war, the U.S. was
confronted with the issue of what to do with new
territories and their non-white inhabitants the
major goals were to maintain order and secure
economic and military benefits while avoiding the
responsibilities of sovereignty.
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Gen. Valeriano Weyler
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Roosevelt McKinley has no more backbone than a
chocolate éclair.
William McKinley
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Dupuy de Lôme Spanish minister to Washington
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U.S.S. Maine
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TELLER AMENDMENT 1898 U.S. is not entering the
war to acquire territory
Henry Teller
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George Dewey
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in Cuba
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There is, of course, little or no independence
left Cuba under the Platt Amendment.
General Leonard Wood
Orville Platt
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Foraker Act of 1900 Insular Cases, 1901-04
Joseph Benson Foraker
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The Imperialism Stunt
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I walked the floor of the White House night
after night until midnight and I am not ashamed
to tell you, gentlemen, that I went down on my
knees and prayed Almighty God for light and
guidance more than one night. And one night it
came to me in this way--.... (1) that we could
not give the Philippines back to Spain--that
would be cowardly and dishonorable (2) that we
could not turn them over to France or
Germany--our commercial rivals in the
Orient--that would be bad business and
discredible... ...that there was nothing left to
do but take them all, and educate the Filipinos,
and uplift and civilize them, and by Gods grace
do the very best by them as our fellow-men for
whom Christ also died. And then I went to bed,
and went to sleep and slept soundly.
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Emilio Aguinaldo
Gen. Arthur MacArthur
Filipino casualties
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Anti-Imperialist League
Andrew Carnegie
Mark Twain
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ROOSEVELTS ARGUEMENTS IN THE 1900 ELECTION
CAMPAIGN
-- The Philippines are US territory. Can the US
give up its own territory? -- If whites were
morally bound to abandon the Philippines, we
were also morally bound to abandon Arizona to the
Apaches. -- The barbarian will only yield to
force.
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Civilization begins at home
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A contemporary observer of the 1900 election
campaign remarked Democrats howling about
Republicans shooting negroes in the Philippines
and the Republicans objecting to Democrats
shooting negroes in the South. This may be good
politics, but it is rough on the negroes.