LECTURE 4: IMPERIALISM


Lecture Outline

1. The American dilemma.
2. Hawaii and Samoa.
3. The Spanish-American War (1898).
4. The Philippine Insurrection (1900-02).

Important Information, Terms, and Names from this Lecture

  • Polynesians
  • Mexican War (1846-48)
  • Pearl Harbor
  • Pago Pago
  • Berlin Act (1889)
  • McKinley Tariff (1890)
  • Pres. Grover Cleveland
  • "yellow journalism" and "yellow press"
  • U.S.S. Maine sinking (1898)
  • "Remember the Maine!"
  • Pres. William McKinley
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • "Rough Riders"
  • San Juan Hill
  • Buffalo Bill Cody
  • "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley."
  • Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden" (1899)
  • Albert J. Beveridge (R-Indiana), "The March of the Flag Speech" (1900)
  • Filipinos

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