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Welcome to

History 12

Political and Social History of the U.S. II

From 1876 to the present

Prof. Valadez

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Topics

• The U.S. as a World Power

• Progressive Era

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Becoming a World Power

• The New Imperialism

– After 1870 European powers scrambled to dominate Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

– Bringing “civilization” to the supposedly backward peoples of the non-European world.

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1854 Matthew Perry in Japan Camphor Tree

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Becoming a World Power

– A small group of late-nineteenth-century thinkers actively promoted American expansionism.

• Josiah Strong

• Alfred T. Mahan

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• The Lure of Empire

– 1893, Americans planters overthrow Queen Liliuokalani.

– Hawaii was long sought after by Americans and was annexed by the United States in 1898.

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Becoming a World Power

• The “Splendid Little War”

– Cuba had fought for independence since 1868.

– The United States went to war with Spain to win Cuba’s liberty and freedom.

• Maine, American battleship, destroyed in Havana

• Teller Amendment

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Map 17.4a The Spanish American War: The Pacific (left)

Map 17.4b The Spanish American War: The Caribbean (right) 10

Charge of the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill 11

• An American Empire

– In the treaty with Spain ending the war the United States acquired the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific island of Guam.

• Platt Amendment for Cuba – Guantanamo Bay

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Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g8NpQsmxj4

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Becoming a World Power • An American Empire

– In 1899, Secretary of State John Hay announced the Open Door policy with China.

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Map 17.5 American Empire, 1898. 15

• Citizens or Subjects?

– American rule brought with it American racial attitudes.

16 School Begins, an 1899 cartoon from Puck

Progressive Era 1900-1916

• What is the Progressive Movement?

• Focus is on improving urban life

• Characteristics

– Progressives

– Govt. involvement

– Paternalistic

– Environment

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Progressive Era 1900-1916

• groups of progressives

–Social Progressives

• Settlement houses

–Coercive Progressives

• WWI ends the era

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Children at play at the Hudson-Bank Gymnasium 19

The Unfinished Nation The Progressive Era 27mins

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ztBdclkYU

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Table 18.1 Rise of the City, 1880–1920 21

• The Muckrakers

– Journalists exposed the ills of industrial and urban life.

– Major novelists of the era took a similarly unsparing approach to social ills.

• Upton Sinclair

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• New Immigration

– Between 1901 and 1914, 13 million immigrants came to the United States, many through Ellis Island.

– Asian and Mexican immigrants entered the United States in fewer numbers.

• Asians entered through Angel Island.

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Table 18.2 Immigrants and Their Children