Imperialism Flashcards
Post war foreign policy
- imperialism
2. uphold Monroe doctrine
Ante-Bellum foreign policy
- isolation from Europe
2. Uphold Monroe doctrine
Factors encouraging imperialism
- economics
- yellow press
- religion
- social Darwinism
- captain Alfred Mahan
- navy is key to power
Alaska
U.s. Squires from Russia
Hawaii
#1 crop = sugar #1 customer = USA NE missionaries were first Americans to move to Hawaii
Last queen of Hawaii
Liliuokalani
McKinley tariff effects
Raises taxes on foreign sugar
Missionarie boys overthrow Hawaiian government and create a new one
Immediately request annexation from USA
First governor of Hawaii
Stanford Dole (fruit master)
Samoa
Both US and Germant want Pago Pago
Pan Am Conference
Goal: become #1 trading partners w/ Latin America
Venezuela
Gold discovered along border of Venezuela and British Ghana
Am get involved due to Monroe doctrine in fear that Britain may invade Venezuela.
Resulting in arbitration to see who gets the gold.
After this Britain tries to improve relations with the USA
Spanish - American war
Cuba = sugar based economy #1 customer = USA Am raises tax on sugar which destroyed Cuban economy Rebellions start
Weyler
Branded as butcher by am press
De lôme
Newspaper prints letter written by him talking about McKinley being weak.
American public is outraged
U.s. Maine
Explodes in Havana harbor and US blames Spain.
Teller amendment
Cuba must be independent
Spanish must go
Gives pres authority to use force
US promises to annex Cuba
Emilio Aquinaldo
Philippine leader
U.S and Filipinos take over Manila
US decides to keep Philippines for itself
Wm Shafter
In charge of Cuba for America
Rough riders
Commander - Leonard wood
2nd in command - Teddy Roosevelt
Santiago
Battle of El Caney
- Kettle Hill
- San Juan Hill
Santiago
Admiral Pascal Cervera
Treaty of Paris 1899
Cuba gains independence
U.S. Gains Philippines Guam and Puerto Rico
Positive results of the war
- Helped heal wounds between north and south
2. U.S. Becomes a world power in the Far East
Constitutional Problem from war
Does U.S. Constitution apply to colonies?
- NO
First governor of the Philippines
William Taft
Hague Conference
Tsar Nicholas ll
Goal: reduce size of the worlds armies
Sec of state John Hay
Open door policy
- Garuntee American access to Chinese markets
Boxer rebellion
Boxers want to kill all foreigners
Boxers are defeated by multi-national army
Hay-Pauncefote treaty
Britain surrenders rights to build a canal in panama to US
Hay-Bunaw-Varilla treaty
U.S gains right to build a canal in Panama
Morroco
Ian taken hostage for ransom
Dominican Republic
Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine
- U.S has a moral mandate to intervene and force the Latin am countries to pay their debts
- U.S. Sends in trooped
Russo-Japanese war
-Fighting for controll of Manchuria and Korea
Tsushima Straits
Japanese wipeout Russian Armada
Portsmouth Peace Conference
- Treaty is made between Russia and Japan.
- Teddy Roosevelt wins peace prize
- Japan and U.S become rivals in the pacific.
Taft-Katsura agreement
U.s recognizes Japanese controll of Korea
Jap recognize am controll of Philippines
Gentlemens agreement
Dealt w Japanese immigration to the US
Root-takahira agreement
Japanese agree to respect open door policy in china
