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Early 20th Century American Imperialism
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 15, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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Europeans, Fruit, entanglements, possessions, annexed, recipe, consternation, pulpo, formal, colonization, violence, agitation, famine, insurgents, Berlin, Kipling, colonial, Chiquita, Old, Spanish, ethical, Burden, Cuba, state
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                   were not the only powers to scramble for new opportunities in the rest of the world at the end of the 19th century
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e.g. in Africa
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Americans had joined this project as well
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although it held back from formal                         
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as in the type Europe was engaging in
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Hawaii
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in one sense a colony before they became a           
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Puerto Rico
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avoided              colonization
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tried to rely on market forces to incorporate an American order into their areas
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instead of formally                territories to the American inland, relied on informal mechanisms
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by 1914 the United States exported capital to the rest of the world
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80% direct foreign investment to its neighbors
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companies played this role
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The United            company
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producer of bananas
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from Central America and from Colombia
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to American consumers through the ports of New Orleans and New York
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the forerunner of                  Bananas
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known in Central America as "el           ", or the octopus
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because of its tentacular presence
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produced a              book in order to market the consumption of this new tropical commodity
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a harbinger of things to come
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invariably drew the United States into formal                            with political neighbors
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1898 Spanish-American War
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first time United States went to war with a European power since 1812
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Europe's oldest empire running up against Neoeurope's first empire
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a collision of models
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Spain had a few remaining colonies
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the Philippines
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Puerto Rico
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Cuba
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         and the Philippines
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increasing                    for independence from Spain
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the United States imagined itself as a savior to rescue those who were struggling to free themselves from this old empire
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the U.S. press painted Spain as a venal and corrupt        World empire
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showed Uncle Sam rescuing Cuba, represented as a child, from a crocodile
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the press played a role in showing how the United States could move into foreign markets as an                model
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this was unlike what the Europeans were deploying in Africa
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the United States could portray itself as ethically committed to freeing the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico from                tyranny
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many of the                      of these countries were beginning to win their struggle against Spain
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the U.S. feared that the instability would pose a threat to the United States
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particularly in Cuba
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therefore the 1898 war
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a very quick defeat of the Spanish
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the Treaty of Paris
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led to the freedom of Spain's last colonies
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these                        would pass to informal U.S. control
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as in              with the Africa conference, there was no Cuban, Puerto Rican or Filipino present
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the U.S. had to consider what to do in these places
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embroiled in local guerilla warfare
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much debate whether the United States was becoming an empire just like Europe
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Woodrow Wilson
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Empire could lead to a corrosion of the American constitution
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news of                  and carnage being released in the warfare of these far away places
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Philippines
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American troops and Filipino insurgents
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press core getting pictures back to the American population
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                           as to what to do
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forced American to rethink the purpose of their empire and their power over these countries
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Rudyard               
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witnessed the American anxieties about empire in newly independent areas of the world
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McClure's Magazine: "The White Man's             "
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Subtitle: The United States and the Philippines
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you're sacrificing yourself for others
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"fill forth the mouth of             "
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watch heathen folly
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evoking the relationship between empire and race
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the moral purpose of expansion and this new language of uplift
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this                  rhetoric fueled Cuban and Philippine nationalism
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a war of the poets
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Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/woodrowwil105428.html

Vocabulary:

venal, adj. showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery ⇒ "The U.S. press painted Spain as a venal and corrupt Old World empire."

Spelling Corrections:

tyrrany ⇒ tyranny

Ideas and Concepts:

Turn-of-the-century insights regarding the U.S. relationship to the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico, by Woodrow Wilson via this morning's History since 1300 class: "The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy."
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