1. What connections did the U.S. have to Cuba in the late 1800s? List at least two.
2. What were the Spanish “reconcentration camps”?
Where hundreds of thousands of Cuban peasants were herded into towns policed by Spanish troops. They lacked adequate food, housing, and sanitation.
3. List three reasons why the United States went to war with Spain in Cuba.
a. People felt bad about what was going on in Cuba.
b. The insult towards President McKinley.
c. The U.S.S Maine blowing up.
4. Which do you believe was the most important reason? Why?
Probably the insult about President McKinley because the U.S.S Maine they had no proof that the Spanish did it and to go to war with someone because you feel bad for people is a really dumb reason.
5. What did the Teller Amendment say?
The U.S had no interest in asserting "sovereignty,jurisdiction,or control" over Cuba and promised to "leave the government and control of the island to its people" once peace was restored.
6. Why was a portion of the Spanish-American War fought in the Philippines?
7. Dewey’s victory in the _Phillippines_ sparked an outpouring of _pride_ in the United States.
8. Why did Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders want to fight in Cuba?
9. a. Why were many African-Americans eager to serve in the Spanish-American War?
They felt that the war was an opportunity to elevate the status of blacks in the United States.
b. What forms of discrimination and prejudice did they encounter?
They were denied promotion into the officer corps and the War Department officials assumed that black soldiers were better suited to Cuba's tropical climate and more likely to withstand tropical diseases.
10. How did racism influence American perceptions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines? Give two examples of events where racism affected U.S. policy after the war.
a.
b.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Imperialism: The Origins of a Global Power
1. Why did American plantation owners and U.S. Marines topple Hawaii’s queen in 1893? Why was Hawaii considered to be a valuable prize? What was President Grover Cleveland’s reaction? Do you agree or disagree with his quote on page 1?
Hawaii offered a stopping point for American ships en route to East Asia and the islands' rich volcanic soil was ideal for growing profitable tropical crops such as sugar,pineapples,and coffe. Cleveland believed that annexation would corrupt traditional American values of freedom and equality. I agree.
2. Identify five important changes that transformed American in the nineteenth century. How did these five changes affect Americans?
America's self-image,the values that shaped the U.S.,immigration,urban growth,agriculture. The immigrants themselves were broadening America's ethnic diversity. By the end of the nineteenth century,one-third of Americans were city dwellers. Agriculture began to slip from its central place in American society and by the end of the 19th century,manufacturing had overtaken agriculture as the leading source of national wealth.
3. How did the economic depression that began in 1893 deepen the divisions in American society? Which groups suffered the most during the depression?
More than 5 hundred banks and 16 thousand businesses went bankrupt. Also millions of Americans lost their jobs. This mostly effected farmers because the depression worsened a slump in income that had started in 1888.
4. What were the values many Americans attached to the frontier? Why did many Americans fear that the closing of the frontier would harm America’s national character?
Resourcefulness,bravery,pragmatism,ingenuity,individualism,egalitarianism,and patriotism.
5. Why did some Americans suggest greater involvement overseas?
The senators and governors felt that the time was ripe and the United States had territorial control from east to west,Native Americans had been quelled,and the issue of slavery had been resolved.
6. What policy did expansionists say would ensure the economic success of the United States? What did imperialists say?
They believed that expansion would help the United States gain greater political power. The imperialists believed that America's mission was to expand across the continent and they held that the course of history was pointing the U.S abroad.
7. How did the theories of social Darwinism and scientific racism lend support to the cause of American imperialism? How were these pseudo-scientific theories used to justify racist policies and imperialism? Are they still used today?
8. What did many Protestant churches say was America’s role in the world?
9. Why did the United States become involved in several Latin American nations in the nineteenth century? Summarize why the United States became involved in Samoa, Hawaii, and other Latin American nations.
10. Why was the United States concerned about British involvement in Venezuela? What concept did U.S. Secretary of State Richard Olney invoke in response?
Hawaii offered a stopping point for American ships en route to East Asia and the islands' rich volcanic soil was ideal for growing profitable tropical crops such as sugar,pineapples,and coffe. Cleveland believed that annexation would corrupt traditional American values of freedom and equality. I agree.
2. Identify five important changes that transformed American in the nineteenth century. How did these five changes affect Americans?
America's self-image,the values that shaped the U.S.,immigration,urban growth,agriculture. The immigrants themselves were broadening America's ethnic diversity. By the end of the nineteenth century,one-third of Americans were city dwellers. Agriculture began to slip from its central place in American society and by the end of the 19th century,manufacturing had overtaken agriculture as the leading source of national wealth.
3. How did the economic depression that began in 1893 deepen the divisions in American society? Which groups suffered the most during the depression?
More than 5 hundred banks and 16 thousand businesses went bankrupt. Also millions of Americans lost their jobs. This mostly effected farmers because the depression worsened a slump in income that had started in 1888.
4. What were the values many Americans attached to the frontier? Why did many Americans fear that the closing of the frontier would harm America’s national character?
Resourcefulness,bravery,pragmatism,ingenuity,individualism,egalitarianism,and patriotism.
5. Why did some Americans suggest greater involvement overseas?
The senators and governors felt that the time was ripe and the United States had territorial control from east to west,Native Americans had been quelled,and the issue of slavery had been resolved.
6. What policy did expansionists say would ensure the economic success of the United States? What did imperialists say?
They believed that expansion would help the United States gain greater political power. The imperialists believed that America's mission was to expand across the continent and they held that the course of history was pointing the U.S abroad.
7. How did the theories of social Darwinism and scientific racism lend support to the cause of American imperialism? How were these pseudo-scientific theories used to justify racist policies and imperialism? Are they still used today?
8. What did many Protestant churches say was America’s role in the world?
9. Why did the United States become involved in several Latin American nations in the nineteenth century? Summarize why the United States became involved in Samoa, Hawaii, and other Latin American nations.
10. Why was the United States concerned about British involvement in Venezuela? What concept did U.S. Secretary of State Richard Olney invoke in response?
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