Chapter 10 America Claims an Empire (1890-1920) I. Imperialism and America (pages 364-367) A. Imperialism – B. U.S. join Europe and establish colonies overseas C. arguments in favor 1. new markets 2. military strength (Admiral Alfred Mahan) 3. belief in Anglo-Saxon superiority a. Social Darwinism - b. “White Man’s Burden” -
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Chapter 10 America Claims an Empire (1890-1920) I. Imperialism and America (pages 364-367) A. Imperialism – B. U.S. join Europe and establish colonies.
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Chapter 10
America Claims an Empire (1890-1920) I. Imperialism and America (pages 364-367)
A. Imperialism –
B. U.S. join Europe and establish colonies overseas
Take up the White Man's burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.
Take up the White Man's burden—In patience to abide,To veil the threat of terrorAnd check the show of pride;By open speech and simple,An hundred times made plainTo seek another's profit,And work another's gain.
The Maine was destroyed by a torpedo . . . The discovery of thehole in the bottom of the Maine, giving undoubted proof of Spanish treachery . . . shows that the great battleship and her crew . . . were deliberately sacrificed.
Walter S. Meriwether in the New York Herald:
I made the rounds of the hospitals . . . With all possible tenderness andcare the Spanish doctors were dressing the face of a fireman. “There is something in my eyes,” he said. “Wait and let me open them.” Both eyes were gone.
3. the “Splendid Little War” (April- August 1898)
a. after the deLome letter and the Maine most Americans favored war with Spain (despite concessions)
b. April 11 - President McKinley asks to use force against Spain