Title: Imperialists vs. Anti-Imperialists
1Splendid Little WarSpanish American War
- Imperialists vs. Anti-Imperialists
2Cuban RebellionFebruary 1895
- General Weyler The Butcher, 50,000 troops, Jose
Martí, junta - Spanish colonies, reconcentration camps, Civil
War - Cuba rural, Caribbean
- Protect Spanish empire, quell revolts/rebellion
- The old, the young, the weak, and the crippled
NY World Cubans inspired by our glorious
example of beneficent free institutions and
successful self-government Over 320,000 Cubans
died
3Hearst Purchases the Journal1895
- Hearst The Journal vs. Pulitzer The World
- Yellow Journalism - sensational press, biased
and exploits suffering death - New York
- to sway public and to ? newspaper sales
- Encouraged American involvement rallies,
fundraisers, intervention
4DeLôme Letter published in the JournalFebruary
1898
- Spanish Minister to the US Dupuy DeLome
- Personal letter intercepted, referred to McKinley
as weak and hypocritical - Published in The Journal Hearst
- the worst insult to the United States in its
history - McKinley pressed toward war public supports
junta
5USS Maine ExplodesFebruary 1898
- U.S. Navy yellow journalists
- U.S. Battleship sent to protect American
interests in Cuba following revolts exploded
killing 272 men - Havana Harbor, Cuba
- Remember the Maine to Hell with Spain!
internal defect - Sunk by an act of dirty treachery on the part of
the Spaniardsno action chocolate éclair T.R.
6US Declares War on SpainApril 1898
- President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S.
Congress - Declaration of War Teller Amendment US has no
intentions of annexing Cuba ? - Cuba, Philippines, Puerto Rico
- Political pressure (press/public) the most
honorable single war in all history, without
the slightest though or desire of foreign
conquest or of national gain. Sen. Hoar - vs. European view American-Brit Society for
International Theft and Warmongeringto snatch
Cuba from Spain. Kaiser Wilhelm
7Dewey in the PhilippinesMay 1898
- Assistant Sec. of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt,
Admiral Dewey, Aguinaldo - Fleet sent by T.R. (before dec. of war) to ensure
the Spanish squadron does not leave the Asiatic
coast - Manila Bay, Philippines
- Split/weaken Spanish
- No Americans died in battle, easy victory!!
8Roosevelt in CubaJune 1898
- (former Asst. Sec. of Navy) Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders - Charge up Kettle Hill to defeat Spanish forces
- Kettle Hill near Santiago
- Colonel Roosevelt sought excitement of battle
political glory expansion - African American troops cleared the hill first
protected T.R.s flank - T.R. became NY Governor
9Peace TreatyNovember 1898
- McKinley, Senate, Spain
- U.S. gained Puerto Rico Guam, paid 20million
for 7,000 islands of Philippines, Platt Amendment
declared Cuba as U.S. protectorate - Caribbean, S.E. Asia
- Splendid Little War Sec. State John Hay, Naval
Victories easy, land war 385 battle deaths, ?
5,000 disease 4 months long - US EmpireSpain epic loss
10Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
11Philippines Annexation
- Imperialists vs. Anti-Imperialists
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13Philippines War FACTS
- 1899-1902
- 126,000 American troops served, 4,234 died, 2,800
wounded - 18,000 Filipinos died in combat, ? 200,000
Filipino casualties from famine/disease - the more you kill and burn, the better you
please me. General Jacob H. Smith - ? Racism
- Following war Taft appointed Governor
established gov., courts, hospitals,
immunization, schoolsetc. - Philippines liberated post-WWII
14The Arguments
And just beyond the Philippines are China's
illimitable markets. We will not retreat from
either. We will not repudiate our duty in the
archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity
in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in
the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of
the civilization of the world...
And just beyond the Philippines are China's
illimitable markets. We will not retreat from
either. We will not repudiate our duty in the
archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity
in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in
the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of
the civilization of the world...
- Pro-Annexation
- Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the
best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo
serve your captives' needTo wait in heavy
harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your
new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and
half-child. - The White Mans Burden by Rudyard Kipling
- And just beyond the Philippines are China's
illimitable marketsWe will not repudiate our
duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our
opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce
our part in the mission of our race, trustee,
under God, of the civilization of the world..they
are not capable of self-government Senator
Albert J. Beveridge
- Against Annexation
- extinguish the spirit of 1776 in those islands.
We deplore the sacrifice of our soldiers and
sailors, whose bravery deserves admiration even
in an unjust war. We denounce the slaughter of
the Filipinos as a needless horror. We protest
against the extension of American sovereignty by
Spanish methods - -American Anti-Imperialist League
- whether Congress may conquer and may govern,
without their consent and against their will, a
foreign nation, a separate, distinct, and
numerous people, a territory not hereafter to be
populated by Americans, to be formed into
American states and to take its part in
fulfilling and executing the purposes for which
the Constitution was framed - -Senator George Hoar
15The Arguments
- Pro-Annexation
- I hope and believe that we shall retain the
islands, and that, peace and order once restored,
we shall and should reestablish civil
government.... We should give them honest
administration, and prompt and efficient courts.
We should see to it that there is entire
protection to persons and propertyAll men should
be protected in the free exercise of their
religion, and the doors thrown open to
missionaries of all Christian sectswe should, as
rapidly as conditions permit, bestow upon them
self-government and home rule - -Senator Henry Cabot Lodge
- Against Annexation
- They were fighting for their freedom against
Spanish tyranny two years ago, and they continued
to fight up to the time when Aguinaldo left the
islands and went to Singapore they continued to
fight, as our own consul said, after he left
they never did cease, some of them there never
was peace and now the question which addresses
itself to every American who loves his flag and
loves his great country and loves the great
principle upon which that flag rests and that
country is founded is this Are we to take the
place of Spain as their taskmasters and
oppressors? Do governments derive their powers
from the consent of the governed?-Senator
Benjamin Tillman
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18Do you agree with the Presidents decision below?
Explain.
- There was nothing left for us to do but to take
them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and to
uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by
God's grace to do the very best we could by them
as our fellow men for whom Christ also died - -President William McKinley