AP US History Chapter 27: The Path of Empire, 1890-1899. The American Pageant.
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| 3150527975 | Americas new power | The new power generated by the strong growth of population, wealth, and productive capacity increased the amount of labor violence and agrarian unrest. | 0 | |
| 3150527976 | Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan | Wrote the book The Influence of Sea of Power upon History, 1660-1783. It argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance. It stimulated the naval race among the great powers. | 1 | |
| 3150527977 | Reverend Josiah Mahan | Wrote "Our Country: Its possible Future and Its Present Crisis". It inspired missionaries to travel to foreign nations. | 2 | |
| 3150527978 | James G. Blainey | Published his "Big Sister" policy which aimed to rally the Latin American Nations behind America's leadership and to open Latin American markets to American traders. | 3 | |
| 3150527979 | New National Mood | Demonstrated by Americas willingness to engage in war over small disputed with Italy, Chile, and Canada. | 4 | |
| 3150527980 | Area between British Guiana and Venezuela | Was in dispute for over 50 years. When gold was discovered there, all hope for peaceful resolution diminished. When Britain rejected the relevance of the Monroe Doctrine, President Cleveland declared he would fight for it. | 5 | |
| 3150527981 | Richard Olney | Secretary of State to Cleveland that claimed that if Britain attempted to dominate Venezuela in the quarrel and gain more territory, then it would be violating the Monroe Doctrine. | 6 | |
| 3150527982 | War with Britain | Cleveland declared he would go to war. Britain did not. Britain's rich merchant marine was vulnerable to American commerce raiders, Russia and France were unfriendly, and Germany was challenging Britain's naval power. Britain, who was afraid of European peril, decided to be friendly with the US. | 7 | |
| 3150527983 | The Great Rapprochement | A reconciliation between the US and Britain that became a cornerstone of both nations' foreign policies. | 8 | |
| 3150527984 | Hawaii | The first New England missionaries arrived in 1820. In the 1840's, the US warned foreigners to keep their hands off Hawaii. | 9 | |
| 3150527985 | Hawaii Treaty in 1887 | A treaty with the native government guaranteed naval-base rights at Pearl Harbor. | 10 | |
| 3150527986 | Sugar Cultivation | Became less profitable in Hawaii with the McKinley Tariff of 1890. American planters decided that the best way to get around this tariff would be to annex Hawaii. | 11 | |
| 3150527987 | Queen Liliuokalani | Insisted that the natives control the islands. | 12 | |
| 3150527988 | Revolt in 1893 | A group of desperate whites revolted successfully in the Hawaiian islands. | 13 | |
| 3150527989 | Treaty to Annex Hawaiit | President Cleveland withdrew the treaty. | 14 | |
| 3150527990 | Tariff of 1894 | Sugar production became less profitable in Cuba with this. | 15 | |
| 3150527991 | Cuban Revolt | Cubans revolted against the Spanish in 1895 after the Spanish began to place Cubans in re-concentration camps and treated them very poorly. Cuban revolutionaries began to reason that if they destroy enough of Cuba, the Spanish would abandon it. America has large stakes in Cuban economy. | 16 | |
| 3150527992 | Resolution in 1896 | Recognized the belligerence of the revolted Cubans. President Cleveland refused to fight for Cuban independence. | 17 | |
| 3150527993 | William R. Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer | Led the fabricated atrocities of Cuba apart of the new "yellow journalism". The two men caused the American people to believe that conditions in Cuba were worse than they actually were. | 18 | |
| 3150527994 | Lome's Letter | Hearst's Journal published a private letter written by Spanish minister in Washington, Dupuy de Lome in 1896. | 19 | |
| 3150527995 | Maine Explosion | On February 15, 1896, the American ship, Maine, blew up in the Havana Port. The Spanish investigators deducted that it was an accident while the Americans claimed that the Spanish had sunken it. The American people were convinced that the Spanish did it. | 20 | |
| 3150527996 | Americas Demands for Spain | 1. End to reconstruction camps 2. An armistice with Cuban rebels The Spanish agreed to the terms | 21 | |
| 3150527997 | Who Wanted War? | President McKinley didn't want war, but the American people did. | 22 | |
| 3150527998 | Declaring War | McKinley sent a war message to Congress on April 11, 1898. Congress declared war and adopted the Teller Amendment. It proclaimed to the world that the US had overthrown the Spanish misrule, and it would give Cubans their freedom. | 23 | |
| 3150527999 | Differences in Army Number | The US Army had 2,100 officers and 28,000 men. The Spanish had 200,000 troops in Cuba. | 24 | |
| 3150528000 | US Navy | Its readiness was due to the Navy Secretary John D. Long and his assistant, Theodore Roosevelt. | 25 | |
| 3150528001 | Commodore George Dewey | Called upon by Roosevelt to descend his 6-ship fleet upon Spain's Philippians in the event of a war. On May 1, 1898. | 26 | |
| 3150528002 | Manila | Dewey slipped without detection at night and attacked and destroyed the 10-ship Spanish fleet at Manila. Foreign ships began to gather in the harbor to protect the nationals. Eventually, the treat of international war blew over. On August 13, 1898, American troops captured Manila. | 27 | |
| 3150528003 | Annex Hawaii | Because of the victory in the Philippines, Americans thought that Hawaii was needed as a supply base for Dewey. Congress annexed Hawaii on July 7, 1898. | 28 | |
| 3150528004 | Admiral Cervera | Sent with a fleet by the Spanish government. He was blocked in the Santiago harbor in Cuba by American ships. | 29 | |
| 3150528005 | General William R. Shafter | Led the invasion force from the rear to drive out Cervera. | 30 | |
| 3150528006 | The Rough Riders | A regiment of volunteers consisting of cowboys and ex-athletes. Commanded by Colonial Leonard Wood, the group was organized by Roosevelt. | 31 | |
| 3150528007 | Colonial Leonard Wood | Led The Rough Riders. | 32 | |
| 3150528008 | July 1st Fighting | Fighting broke out in El Caney, and San Juan Hill, where Colonial Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charged. | 33 | |
| 3150528009 | July 3, 1898 | Admiral Carvera's fleet was entirely destroyed, and Santiago surrendered. | 34 | |
| 3150528010 | General Nelson A. Miles | Met little resistance when he took Puerto Rico. | 35 | |
| 3150528011 | August 12, 1898 | Spain signed an armistice. | 36 | |
| 3150528012 | Fever | During the war's end, much of the American Army was stricken with malaria, typhoid, and yellow fever. | 37 | |
| 3150528013 | Negotiations with Spain | In the late 1898, American and Spanish negotiators met in Paris to begin heated discussions. | 38 | |
| 3150528014 | Philippine Troubles | America secured Guam and Puerto Rico, but McKinley didn't wan't to give the Philippines back to the Spanish misrule. McKinley decided to Christianize and civilize all of the Filipinos. | 39 | |
| 3150528015 | Manila Technicality | Spanish negotiators demanded that Manila couldn't be counted as a spoil of war because it was captured a day after the war ended. The US government payed $20 million for the Philippines. | 40 | |
| 3150528016 | The Anti-Imperialistic League | Sprung up and fought McKinley administration's expansionist moves. | 41 | |
| 3150528017 | William J. Bryan | The Democratic Presidential Candidate used his influence on the Democratic senators to get the treaty approved on February, 1899. He augured that the sooner the treaty was passed, the sooner the Filipinos could gain their independence. | 42 | |
| 3150528018 | The Foraker Act of 1900 | Congress gave the Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government and in 1917, granted them US citizenship. | 43 | |
| 3150528019 | Puerto Rico | The American regime in Puerto Rico did wonders in education, sanitation and transportation. | 44 | |
| 3150528020 | The Insular Case | The Supreme Court declared that the Consitution did not extend to the Philippines and Puerto Rico. | 45 | |
| 3150528021 | Withdraw from Cuba | In 1902, the US, honoring the Teller Amendment, left Cuba. | 46 | |
| 3150528022 | Cuban Constitution | In 1901, the US forced Cuba to write their own constitution. The constitution decreed that the US may intervene with troops in Cuba in order to restore order and provide mutual protection. The Cubans promised to sell needed coaling or naval stations to the US. | 47 | |
| 3150528023 | The Spanish-American War | Although lasting only 113 days, American prestige as a world power increased. A result of the war was a bonding between the North and the South. | 48 |
