JUST DO IT

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JUST DO IT

• Imagine there are two students at your school,
  Billy and Brad. Billy is much smaller than Brad,
  and Brad always picks on Billy and takes his
  things. Billy cant do anything without Brads
  permission. One day at lunch, Billy tries to sit
  at your table with you and your friends, but Brad
  wont let him. Brad says hes going to beat Billy
  up if he sits there.
• What would you do in this situation? Help Billy?
  Ignore Billy? Something else? You have five
  minutes to write a brief paragraph telling me
  what you would do, and why.

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Introduction to Expansionism and Imperialism
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MANIFEST DESTINYSea to Shining Sea
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BUT WHY STOP AT THE SEA?
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QUICKNOTES

• EXPANSIONISM- The policy that a country should
  get larger, or expand to other places.
• IMPERIALISM- Expanding a countrys territory or
  gaining indirect control over the political or
  economic life of other areas.
• ANNEX- To bring more land into a larger territory.

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Reasons for Expansionism

• Desire to compete with Europe
• Theories of racial superiority
• Strong navies need bases for re-supply
• Need for new economic markets

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Reasons Against Expansionism

• No reason to expand, plenty to do at home.
• The United States should not rule other people.
• Absorbing different cultures into America would
  be difficult.

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First Stop..SAMOA

• The Samoan Islands were an excellent pit-stop in
  the Pacific.
• Native Samoan leaders wanted U.S. to help protect
  them from others.
• Germany and U.S. almost went to war over the
  islands.
• 1889- agreed to split the islands into
  protectorates

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Hawaiian Annexation

• Queen Liliuokalani- came to power in 1891, sought
  to curb American influence and return Hawaiian
  economy to local control.
• Influence of sugar- American sugar planters
  enjoyed numerous advantages on the islands,
  including no import duties on sugar shipped to
  the U.S. When Queen Lil tried to curb American
  influence, sugar planters deposed her and
  declared Hawaii a republic in 1893.

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Hawaiian Annexation
Sanford Dole, 1st prez of Republic of Hawaii

• Why Annexed?
• - American govt initially opposed to
  annexation, due to how Queen Lil had been
  deposed. But agreed to annexation in 1898 when
  war with Spain proved strategic value of a naval
  base in Hawaii.

Lowering the Hawaiian flag as U.S. annexes the
country.
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CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
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QUICKNOTES

• CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
• Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the
  United States

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MEANWHILE IN CUBASpanish were cruel to the
Cubans
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CUBANS WERE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
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MANY AMERICANS SUPPORTED CUBAN INDEPENDENCE
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QUICKNOTES

• CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
• Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the
  United States.
• Americans sympathized with Cuban fighters.

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YELLOW JOURNALISM

• Two newspapers, New York Journal and New York
  World, were competing against each other.
• To attract more readers, both papers would report
  on scandals and bloody atrocities in Cuba. If
  there was no story, they would make one up.

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QUICKNOTES

• CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
• Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the
  United States.
• Americans sympathized with Cuban fighters.
• Yellow Journalism.

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U.S.S. MAINE

• American battleship sent to Cuba to pick up
  American citizens and bring them to safety out of
  the Cuban rebellion.
• Arrived in Havana Harbor in January 1898.
• Then on the night of February 15.

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EXPLOSION!!!!
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EXPLOSION OF U.S.S. MAINE

• 260 American sailors killed.
• Spanish authorities claim that explosion was
  accident.
• Americans say the Spanish attacked the ship with
  a mine shout Remember the Maine! Demanded war
  with Spain.
• 1976- Study found the explosion had been an
  accident.

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YELLOW JOURNALISM OF MAINE EXPLOSION
New York World New York Journal
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QUICKNOTES

• CAUSES OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
• Imperialist and expansionist feelings in the
  United States.
• Americans sympathized with Cuban fighters.
• Yellow Journalism.
• Explosion of the U.S.S. Maine