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Headings: Unit 5 Class Notes- Imperialism and WWI American Expansionism
American
 
Expansionism
 

Three
 
Factors
 
Fueled
 
American
 
Imperialism
 

The
 
United
 
States
 
Buys
 
Alaska
 

Secretary
 
of
 
State
 
William
 
Seward
 
was
 
an
 
early
 
proponent
 
of
 
U.S.
 
expansion.
 

America
 
Takes
 
Hawaii
 

The
 
Hawaiian
 
Islands
 
had
 
been
 
strategically
 
important
 
to
 
Americans
 
for
 
nearly
 
a
 
century
 

Support
 
and
 
Opposition
 
to
 
American
 
Imperialism
 

Cubans
 
Rebel
 
Against
 
Spain
 

1896-1898:
 
Yellow
 
Journalism
 
and
 
the
 
Headline
 
Wars
 

War
 
with
 
Spain
 

American
 
Imperialist
 
Foreign
 
Policy
 

From
 
McKinley
 
through
 
the
 
Wilson
 
presidency-
 
The
 
acquisition
 
of
 
an
 

Theodore
 
Roosevelt’s
 
“Big
 
Stick”
 
diplomacy

President
 
Taft
 
and
 
Dollar
 
Diplomacy

Woodrow
 
Wilson’s
 
Missionary
 
Diplomacy
 

The
 
Great
 
War-
 
World
 
War
 
One
 

Causes
 
of
 
WWI
 

The
 
War
 
Hits
 
Home
 

The
 
United
 
States
 
Declares
 
War
 

America
 
Mobilizes
 

America
 
Turns
 
the
 
Tide
 

The
 
War
 
Increases
 
the
 
Power
 
of
 
Government
 

The
 
Railroad
 
Administration
 

Selling
 
the
 
War
 

The
 
Committee
 
on
 
Public
 
Information-
 
The
 
Committee
 
on
 
Public
 
Information
 

Attacks
 
on
 
Civil
 
Liberties
 

Schenk
 
V.
 
United
 
States.
 

The
 
War
 
Encourages
 
Social
 
Change
 

The
 
war
 
had
 
lasting
 
effects,
 
both
 
positive
 
and
 
negative
 
on
 
African
 
Americans
 
and
 
women.
 

Great
 
Migration.
 

Wilson’s
 
Fight
 
for
 
a
 
“Just
 
and
 
Lasting”
 
Peace
 

The
 
Treaty
 
of
 
Versailles
 


Content: By
 
1900,
 
foreigners
 
and
 
immigrant
 
workers
 
outnumbered
 
native-born
 
Hawaiians
 
three-to-one. 1875-
 
The
 
US
 
agreed
 
to
 
import
 
Hawaiian
 
sugar
 
duty-free
 
(tax
 
free)
 

 
Hawaiian
 
sugar
 
production
 
increased
 
nine
 
times
 
over
 
the
 
next
 
15
 
years
 



 
1890-
 
The
 
McKinley
 
Tariff
 
removed
 
the
 
duty-free
 
status
 
of
 
Hawaiian
 
sugar,
 
causing
 
the
 
islands
 
sugar
 
growers
 
to
 
compete
 
in
 
the
 
American
 
market
 

 
American-owned
 
plantation
 
owners
 
cried
 
foul! They
 
called
 
for
 
America
 
to
 
annex
 
the
 
islands,
 
in
 
order
 
for
 
them
 
to
 
avoid
 
paying
 
the
 
tariff
 
duty. 1890-
 
Hawaii’s
 
King
 
Kalakaua
 
was
 
forced
 
by
 
foreign
 
business
 
leaders
 
to
 
amend
 
his
 
nation’s
 
constitution,
 
limiting
 
the
 
voting
 
rights
 
to
 
only
 
wealthy
 
landowners. 1891-
 
the
 
King
 
died,
 
his
 
sister
 
Queen
 
Liliuokalani
 
took
 
the
 
throne
 

 
She
 
pursued
 
an
 
agenda
 
to
 
remove
 
property
 
qualifications
 
for
 
voting,
 
known
 
as
 
“Hawaii
 
for
 
Hawaiian”
 
in
 
order
 
to
 
ensure
 
native
 
Hawaiians
 
controlled
 
the
 
islands
 


 
***The
 
queen’s
 
attempt
 
to
 
reduce
 
the
 
political
 
influence
 
of
 
American
 
sugar
 
planters
 
would
 
prompt
 
the
 
U.S.
 
government
 
to
 
participate
 
in
 
the
 
overthrow
 
of
 
the
 
Hawaiian
 
government
 


 
1893-
 
American
 
business
 
groups,
 
encouraged
 
by
 
U.S.
 
Ambassador
 
John
 
L.
 
Stevens,
 
organized
 
a
 
revolt
 

 
Assisted
 
by
 
the
 
U.S.
 
Marines,
 
they
 
overthrew
 
the
 
queen
 
and
 
set
 
up
 
a
 
government,
 
The
 
Republic
 
of
 
Hawaii,
 
led
 
by
 
Sanford
 
B.
 
Dole
 

 
Ambassador
 
Stevens
 
informed
 
the
 
State
 
Department,
 
“The
 
Hawaiian
 
pear
 
is
 
now
 
fully
 
ripe,
 
and
 
this
 
is
 
the
 
golden
 
hour
 
for
 
the
 
United
 
States
 
to
 
pluck
 
it.” The
 
new
 
U.S.
 
president,
 
Grover
 
Cleveland,
 
called
 
for
 
Liliuokalani
 
to
 
be
 
reinstated,
 
but
 
Dole
 
refused. Cleveland
 
formally
 
recognized
 
the
 
Republic
 
of
 
Hawaii,
 
but
 
refused
 
to
 
consider
 
annexation
 
unless
 
a
 
majority
 
of
 
Hawaiians
 
favored
 
it…which
 
they
 
didn’t. Of
 
course. 1898-
 
The
 
next
 
U.S.
 
president,
 
William
 
McKinley,
 
favored
 
annexation. Aug.
 
12,
 
1898,
 
Congress
 
proclaimed
 
Hawaii
 
an
 
American
 
territory.