Chapter 17

The Path of Empire

        VOCABULARY

Alfred Thayer Mahan

James G. Blaine

Richard Olney

Valeriano Weyler

Dupuy de Lome

Theodore Roosevelt

William Randolph Hearst

Queen Liliuokalani

George W. Dewey

Emilio Aguinaldo

reconcentration

jingoism

imperialism

Pan American Conference

Maine

Teller Amendment

Rough Riders

Treaty of Paris

Anti-Imperialist League

Foraker Act

insular Cases

Platt Amendment

Theme:  In the 1890s a number of economic and political forces sparked a spectacular burst of imperialistic expansionism for the United States that culminated in the Spanish-American War - a war that began over freeing Cuba and ended with the highly controversial acquisition of the Philippines.

*  U.S. turns its attention overseas in the 1890s

        - new markets

        - "yellow" journalism

       - Missionary ferver

       - Darwinist ideology

       - power rivallry / naval competition

*  U.S. intervention

       - Venezuela

       - Hawaii

*  Spanish - American War

       - President McKinley

       - "Maine" / yellow journalism

       - Philippines

       - Puerto Rico

*  International Power