27 Empire And Expansiob Flashcards
Reverend Josiah Strong
Our Country: It’s Possible Future and It’s Present Crisis. supported civilizing and christianizing savages.
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
Yellow press or yellow journalism
Book that influenced U.S. naval supremacy
Cpt. Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
James G. Blaine’s Big Sister policy
Policy for increasing economic relations with Latin America
James G. Blaine’s Big Sister policy
Policy for increasing economic relations with Latin America
Secretary of State, Richard Olney
Sent by Cleveland to inform GB that they were breaking the Monroe Doctrine in the British Guinea/Venezuela dispute.
Results of the British Guinea/Venezuela dispute
British get most of the land they wanted
Latin America appreciative of Monroe doctrine
Better GB/US relations
Why did they the US want to annex Hawaii?
Sugar cultivation. McKinley tariff of 1890 raised its price
Causes of the Spanish-American War
William Randolph Hearst’s yellow journalism
Dupuy de Lôme’s letter to Washington
Maine explosion
Hurst’s quote to Frederick Remington
“You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”.
William McKinley eventually sent a declaration of war to congress
Defend democracy
Thought war was inevitable
Give the people what they want
Fear of splitting up the rep. Party
Teller Amendment
U.S. would give Cuba their freedom after war
Foraker Act of 1900
Gave Puerto Rico a limited popular government
Insular cases
Supreme Court controversy over constitutionality of Cuban interference and acquiring Puerto Rico.
Platt Amendment of 1902
Cuban constitution which allowed U.S. interference, free trade with U.S., and two U.S. naval bases
