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-Chapters 5.1 and 5.2

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What is imperialism

Economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker

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Why did Europe expand overseas

Import raw materials for manufacturing

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U.S. Motives for Expansion

European expansion, New markets, Social Darwinism

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Manifest Destiny

cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America

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Pan Americanism

The idea that the United States and Latin American nations should work together

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U.S. Trade in Latin America

U.S. bought raw materials from L.A.

L.A. bought their manufactured goods more from Europe than the U.S.

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Yellow Journalism

A type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers

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The USS Maine

U.S. battleship that was sent to Havana harbor to protect Americans living there by President McKinley and Exploded on February 15, 1898

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“Rough Riders”

A cavalry unit of cowboys, miners, and law officers who volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War and TR led them

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Treaty of Paris

Signed between U.S. and Spain in 1898

Cuba became independent

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Platt Amendment

Conditions attached to Cuban independence & constitution

1. Cuba could not make any treaty with another nation that would weaken its independence

2. U.S. could establish naval stations in Cuba

3. Low Cuban debt

4. U.S. would have the right to intervene to protect Cuban independence and keep order

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General “The Butcher” Weyler

Herded hundreds of thousands of people into “reconcentration camps” so they couldn’t help the rebels

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Commodore Dewey- Sent to the Philippines

Ordered to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines since it was a Spanish colony

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The U.S. and Cuba – Linked Economically

Americans invested money in Cuba’s sugar plantations, mines, railroads

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Protectorates

European countries were creating these protectorates as parts of their empire

The imperial power protects local rulers against rebellions and invasion

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U.S. “Opens” Japan to the World

Japan realizes how far behind their island nation is technologically, and begins to catch up

Japan allows the U.S. to begin trading with them

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U.S. Ports in the Pacific

As trade with Asia grew, the U.S. needed ports for its ships to refuel and resupply across the Pacific

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Hawaii and the U.S.

1893 Hawaiian monarchy overthrown by a group of American planters supported by the U.S. marines

Sugar Industry 1800s (American planters)

U.S. insist on naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii