6) Tuesday, February 6. 1898: A New Empire?

Story Line: 1898 might as well be called year one of the empire. It is the year where Americans acquired land away from their own continent. Since then, Americans have been divided between those who favor isolation from world affairs and those who advocate intervention. Review Questions for Discussion IV   [Lecture 5] Outline [Lecture 7]	Readings for lecture 6 Document Number: DJ2105240555 Document Number: DJ2301500377 Albert Beveridge, The March of the Flag, 1898 John Hay, Open Door in China, 1899-1900 Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life, 1901 William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomacy, 1912
Images for lecture 5: United States Infantry, Past and Present Theodore Roosevelt and Rough Riders Our New Citizens John Hay Signing Peace Treaty for Ratification at the end of Spanish American War, April 1899 President Roosevelt and the Monster Steam Shovel Official Opening of the Panama Canal, 1914

Introduction:

• 1898, year one of the empire.

I. Manifest Destiny

• John O' Sullivan, editor of the Democratic Review

II. The Tariff and Foreign Policy

• William McKinley
• Jacob Gallinger
• Grover Cleveland

III. Acquiring Alaska and Turning the Pacific into an American Lake

• Andrew Johnson
• William H. Seward
• Klondike
  
  
• Melville's Moby Dick
• Hawaii's Queen Liliukalani
• Sanford B. Dole
• Josiah Strong
• John Raleigh Mott

IV. Purposes, Consequences , and Aftermath of the Spanish American War

• Enrique de Lôme
• William Randolph Hearst, NY World, sensationalism in journalism as well as jingoism.
• Joseph Pulitzer, NY Journal, and the sinking of the Maine
• George Dewey
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890)
• Theodore Roosevelt at San Juan Hills
• Leonard Wood (who had defeated Geronimo 12 y. earlier)
• Senator Albert Beveridge
• General Emilio Aguinaldo

V. Theodore Roosevelt's Foreign Policy

• Leon Czolgosz
• William Moody
• Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe doctrine.

VI. Significance of the open door policy in China

• Manchuria, Shantung Peninsula, Yangtze valley
• Henry Adams, Sir Robert Hart, John Hay, W. W. Rockhill, Alfred Hippisley
• George Kennan

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