Chapter 27 Reading Check

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

Our Country: It's Possible Future and Its Present Crisis. Spoke for civilizing and Christianizing savages

the United States was the fittest and needed to take over other nations

1890s book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that every successful world power once held a great navy.

aimed at rallying the latin american nations behind Uncle Sam's leadership and opening Latin American markets to Yankee traders

or reconciliation- the british fully aware of european peril were now determined to cultivate Yankee friendship. The British inaugurated an era of "patting the eagle's head" which replaced a century of America's "twisting the lion's tail."

raised barriers against a Hawaiian product, caused the sugar markets to go sour in 1890

was the last reigning queen of Hawaii, opposed the US annexing Hawaii

cuban insurgents who sought freedom from colonial spanish rule. Their destructive tactics threatened American economy interests in Cuban plantations and railroads.

Feburary 15, 1898; encouraged and amplified by the "yellow press" the out cry over the tragedy of this helped drive the country into an impulsive war against spain

Spanish General who came to Cuba to crush the revolt and ended up putting many civilians into concentration camps that were terrible and killed many

• sent by Hearst to draw pictures of often-fictional atrocities
• "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"

Spanish minister that wrote a letter that ridiculed President Mckinley, published by Hearst

• War with spain seemed inevitable
• america had to defend democracy
• opposing a war could split the republican party and america

proclaimed that when the U.S. had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give the Cubans their freedom and not conquer it

ordered to leave Hong Kong to take over the philippines which he did successfully when he seized Manila

a regiment of volunteers led by Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Leonard Wood, rushed to Cuba and battled at El Caney stormed up San Juan Hill

• in negotiations in Paris, American got Guam and Puerto Rico and freed Cuba, but these islands were a tough problem
• McKinely decided to keep these islands and America paid $20 million for them

• sprang into being, firmly opposed McKinley administrations expansionist moves,
• Its members included Mark Twain, William James, Samuel Gompers, and Andrew Carnegie
• Even the Filipinos wanted freedom, and denying that to them was un-american

of 1900 gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government, and in 1917, congress granted Puerto Ricans full American citizenship

• the supreme court barely ruled that the Constitution did not have full authority on how to deal with the islands (Cuba and Puerto Rico), essentially letting Congress do whatever it wanted with them
• Basically the cases said the islands residents do not necessarily share the same rights as Americans

• the US could intervene and restore order in case of anarchy
• that the US could trade freely with cuba
• that the US could get two bays for naval bases notably guantanamo bay

lasted only 113 days and affirmed America's presence as a world power

led the insurrection when Filipinos didn't recieve freedom after the Spanish American War

Hed of the Philippine Commission and developed a strong attachment for the filipinos calling them his "little brown brothers"

China had been carved into "spheres of influence" by the European powers

Secretary of State John Hay dispatched this, urded the European nations to keey fair competition open to all nations willing and wanting to participate

a super patriotic group of chinese who murdered more than two hundred foreigners and thousands of Chiness Christians and besieged the foreign diplomatic community in the capital Beijing

McKinley (Theodore Roosevelt) and William Jennings Bryan

• with Britian had forbade the construction by either country of a canal in the americas without the other's consent and help
• But that statement was nullified in 1901 by the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty that gave US not only a free hand to build the canal but conceded the right to fortify it

gave a widened (6x10 mi.) Panamanian zone to the US for $15 million

quiet and determined exterminator of yellow fever in Havana, ultimately made theCanal Zone "as safe as a health resort". At the cost of some $400 million

ultimately brought the project to completion in 1914

stated that in future cases of debt problems, the US would take over and handle any intervention in Latin AMerica on behalf of Europe, thus keeping Europe away and the Monore Doctrine intact

To impress the Japanese, Roosevelt sent his entire battleship fleet, around the world for a tour, and it received tremendous salutes in Latin America, New Zealand, Hawaii, Australia, and Japan, helping relieve tensions

pledged the US and Japan to respect each other's territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door Policy in Chine