| | - American Imperialism
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- Imperialism
- Reasons for wanting territories
- 1. New sources of raw materials and new markets for goods
- 2. Coaling stations
- 3. Annexation of Hawaii
- War War War War War War War War War War War War War War War
- 1. Quick U.S. victory
- 2. Jingoism led to the war
- Jingoism
- 3. Yellow
- Danger: newspapers and press presenting an unbiased account is essential for a democratic society
- 4. Congress declared war on Spain after the Maine blew up
- Slide 15
- 5. U.S. won the war and gained the territories of Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam.
- President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy
- Slide 18
- Roosevelt’s “Big Stick Policy”
- U.S. interest in Latin America:
- Latin Americans resented the U.S. foreign policy
- Panama Canal
- U.S. interfered in Latin American politics to build the canal
- Teddy Roosevelt was accused of ignoring democratic and diplomatic principles to build the canal
- T.R.’s domestic policies:
- T.R.’s domestic policies:
- The End
- Slide 28
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