ImperialismAPUSH Unit 12 - Chapter 27

Era 7

Early Expansion• Focused on Westward Expansion and Territorial

acquisition

Frontier 1890s• Frontier Closed according to the US Census Bureau

and Frederick Jackson Turner

• No continuous

line of frontier

Motivations• Economic

• Political

Motivations• Military

• Ideological

Hawaii• Missionaries

• Sugar Planters

• Queen Liliuokalani

Hawaii• Revolt in 1893

Cuba• Butcher Weyler

• Reconcentration Camps

Cuba – Yellow Journalism• Hearst and Pulitzer

USS Maine• Sent to “observe”

• Ready to evacuate or

act as needed

• Exploded in Havana

Harbor on Feb 15, 1898

• Two theories

War Declared• McKinley

reluctant but

eventually

relented

• April 25, 1898

War with Spain• Manila

• Cuba

Concluding the War• Over August 12, 1898

• New territory added

• Beginning of the

Philippine Insurrection

Debate over Imperialism• What should the

US do with its new

territories?

• Anti-Imperialist

League

Debate over Imperialism• Insular Cases –

the Constitution

does not follow

the flag

Cuba• Protectorate

after 1902

Philippine Insurrection• Emilio Aguinaldo

• Guerilla Warfare

China• Open Door Policy

• Boxer Rebellion

Election 1900• McKinley vs.

Bryan

Panama• Old Treaties

• Revolt, 1903

Panama Canal• 1904-1914

• $400 million

Roosevelt Corollary• Policeman of the Caribbean

Russo-Japanese War• Portsmouth Treaty

• Nobel Peace Prize

San Francisco• Earthquake & Fire

• Japanese discrimination

Great White Fleet• Gentleman’s Agreement

• Great White Fleet – a show of friendship and

naval might