APUSH Unit 7

Pan-American Union, met during the 1880s

American Planters revolted against Queen Liliuokalani and later petitioned the president for annexation.

emphasized acquiring new sources of raw materials and new markets.

Protestant Minister, wrote Our Country about our duty to spread Christianity and Democracy.

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

strong Imperialist, Republican, senator.

ardent imperialist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Avid Imperialist. Prevented the US from signing the Treaty of Versailles after WWI.

3 time democratic canidate for pres. staunch anti-imperialist.

Britain invaded Ven. after a boundary dispute. Monroe Doctrine.

Cuban Revolt Yellow Journalism De Lome Letter Sinking of the battleship Maine

Sensationalistic reporting to boost circulation. ex. William Randolph Hearst (New York Journal) and Joseph Pulitzer (New York World)

Sec. o State John Hay

Spanish forces to put down the rebellion were brutal. Yellow Journalism aided the Cubans and put the US on their side. Spanish Gen. "Butcher" Weyler

Butcher" Weyler put cuban civilians into camps, thousands died of poor sanitation, overcrowding, and disease.

De Lome, the Spanish minister in Washington, sent a secret letter he wrote describing President McKinley as weak with no mind of his own, angering many Americans when the letter was intercepted and published in American papers. This incident happened in February, as did the explosion of the battleship Maine. Both incidents stirred up war fever in America and increased cries to go to war against Spain.

sent to Cuba to show our presence. Blew up and caused US to blame Spain and want war.

pledged that the United States had no intention of annexing Cuba.

first battle of Span. Am. war. He easily destroyed the spanish fleet very quickly.

Roosevelt formed them (a cavalry). Helped win the battle.

Approved by the Senate on February 6, 1898, ending the Spanish-American War. The United States gained Guam (an island between Hawaii and the Philippines), Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Spain received $20 million from the United States for the Philippines. Spain recognized Cuba's independence. The United States decision to acquire the Philippines (despite Filipino demands for independence) sparked a heated debate over the ratification of the Treaty of Paris. Imperialists favored it and business leaders wanted the islands as a base for United States operations in the East. Most Republicans favored the ratification of the Treaty, while most Democrats opposed it. By a narrow vote the Senate Republicans won the ratification vote. Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan unsuccessfully tried to make the Election of 1900 a "referendum" on imperialism.

Andrew Carnegie, Jane Addams, Sameuel Gompers, William J Bryan, Mark Twain.

Ended military rule of Puerto Rico by United States forces and established limited popular government consisting of an American governor and a bi-cameral legislature. The Act also gave the United States government the right to amend or veto any legislation passed by Puerto Rico. Since Puerto Rico wanted independence, the agitation for it continued after the passage of the Act. In 1917, American citizenship was granted to Puerto Ricans. Puerto Rico remains a territory of the United States today.

A rider to the Army Appropriations Bill of 1901, it specified the conditions under which the United States could intervene in Cuba's internal affairs, and provided that Cuba could not make a treaty with another nation that might impair its independence. The United States also retained land for naval bases in Cuba at Guantanamo Bay. Its provisions were later incorporated into the Cuban Constitution. In effect, the Platt Amendment nullified the earlier Teller Amendment of 1898 (the United States had pledged it would not annex Cuba) and made Cuba into a protectorate of the United States. The Platt Amendment overrode the Teller Amendment and Cuba came under the United States control after the Spanish American War - although Cuba was never annexed by the United States

protection and partial control by a superior nation/ power.

revolted against spain, later w/ US.He then led an insurrection against the United States nearly four times as many American soldiers were needed to put down the insurrection as were used to defeat Spain in Cuba. The United States employed the same brutal and inhumane tactics used by Spain in Cuba: Filipino civilians were rounded up and put into concentration camps in which perhaps 200,000 died. American troops also made little effort to distinguish between civilian noncombants and rebels. Controversy over the insurrection revived The Anti-Imperialist League.

John Hay. Opened China to business with other large nations.

Secretary of State John Hay sent a Second Open Door Note after the international expeditionary force put down the Boxer Rebellion (see Boxer Rebellion below). Hay's was concerned that the expeditionary force might try to set up a government and this note restated the United States position that China must remain an independent nation. The Open Door policy became a key point of American foreign policy in the 1900s.

The Sacred Society of the Harmonious Fists) revolted against foreigners in China and laid siege to foreign embassies in Beijing. Large nations sent in the international expeditionary force to put down the rebellion.

Extreme nationalism marked by a belligerent foreign policy

Regions in which political and economic control was exerted by one European nation to the exclusion of all others.

does the "Constitution follow the flag"? Not always, congress had the power to decide what laws and rights applied.