Thursday, January 9th - Period 7 Lesson 3

• Alfred Thayer Mahan

  • Naval officer and historian

  • Power linked to control of the seas during peace and war

  • Stressed naval production

• Queen Liliuokalani​

  • Last monarch of Hawaii (1893)

  • Became a protectorate of the U.S.

​American Foreign Policy 1890-1910

• Sanford B. Dole

  • First and only elected president of the Republic of Hawaii 1894-1898

  • Annexed by the U.S. in 1898

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​American Foreign Policy 1890-1910

• Spanish-American War

  • War fought between the U.S. and Spain in 1898

  • Intervention of the Cuban War for Independence from Spain

  • Resulted in U.S. acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines

  • HIstorians denote the effects of the war gave the U.S. world power status

• Platt Amendment

  • Granted Cuban independence but with extensive U.S. oversight

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​American Foreign Policy 1890-1910

• Yellow Journalism

• Journalism that presents exaggerated news based more in catchy headlines and a focus on making money

• Competing New York Newspapers

• Drummed up support for war

• U.S.S. Maine

  • American ship sunk in Havana Harbor

  • Spain blamed for sinking

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​American Foreign Policy 1890-1910

• Roosevelt Corollary

  • Extension of the Monroe Doctrine (1823) - closed to colonization

  • International police power in the Western Hemisphere

  • Gunboat/diplomacy - Big Stick Policy

• Dollar Diplomacy

  • Use of economic power over military force

  • loans to Latin American countries

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​American Foreign Policy 1890-1910

• Open Door Policy

  • American diplomatic policy which called for equal trading rights in China

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​American Foreign Policy 1890-1910

​Foreign Policy Workbook pgs.

p. 94 - Political cartoon analysis
p. 95 - Primary reading and response
p. 96 - Understanding, Analyzing and Evaluating Political cartoons
p. 97 - Map Analysis