isolationism and progressivism

Imperialism

Stronger nations making themselves stronger by taking from weaker nations

Isolationism

Remaining apart from other nations and their affairs

The Scramble for Africa

Strong European nations fight for materials to feed into their development of the industrial revolution

Why imperialize?

Gain resources, political power, glorification, more followers, workers, citizens

“Survival for the fittest”

Natural selection theory applied to real life

Big sister policy

Aimed at Latin america to open up markets to US products

Why buy Alaska?

Contains copius amounts of gold, oil, tmiber, food, and other important resources

Why imperialize Hawaii?

Contains copius amounts of sugar, pinapple, and navy advantage in the pacific

Scorched Earth Policy

Cuba burns their own assets in petition of spain's control

Yellow Journalists

Journalists sensationalizing stories making them more consumable and more money

William Randolph Hearst

Rich media tycoon, sensationlizing the situation between cuba and spain

Jospeh Pulitzer

New york world telegraph, sensationlizing teh situaion between cuba and spain

USS Maine

On patrol in the havana harbor, explodes, killing 266 people

The three things McKinley wants Spain to follow to not go to war

• End reconstruction

• Pay for the USS Maine

• Free Cuba

The Teller Amendment

When the USA wins, cuba will be free

What was the biggest killer of the Spanish American war?

Disease (Typhoid/Yellow Fever)

Treaty of Paris (12/10/1898)

• Cuba is independent

• Puerto rico and guam are “given" to the US

• The philippines are sold t the US for 20 million

The Platt Amendment (1903)

• Cuba could not allow control from foreigners

• The US could intervene “when necessary"

• The usa could leaseland for a naval base

Progressivism

A time fo change between the years 1880 and 1920

Categories of progresivism

• Social

• Moral

• Economic

• Political

Common Progressive Beliefs

• be more accountable to the citizens

• help out the unwealthy

• be more efficient and less corrupt

• be given more power to make citicisn lives better

• protect social welfare

Muckrakers

Journalists who exposed wronging of the business world

Teddy's square deal

• Conservation of natural resources

• Preserving land

• Founding the natural park system

• Control the corperations (breaking up the monopolies)

William Taft's dream

He wanted to be head of the supreme court

The Payne - Aldrich Tariff (1909)

A bill that raises certain tariffs splitting the republican party in half

The Ballinger - Pinchot affair

Pinchot claimed that Ballinger was corrupted by coal interested in Alaska which splits the republican party (Ballinger betrayed the ideas roosevelt followed prior to taft's presidency*

Who do the republicans choose as candidate

Taft

Who created the bull moose party (the progressive party)

Teddy

Dedicated reformer

Wilson

Clayton antitrust act

Prohibits price discrimination (breaks up monopolies)

Watchdogs

Watch over buisinesses in order to break up monopolies