Did the United States embrace imperialism?
American Yawp, chapter 19: American Empire
- I. Introduction
- II. Patterns of American Interventions
- III. 1898
- IV. Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism
- V. Women and Imperialism
- VI. Immigration
- VII. Conclusion
- VIII. Primary Sources
- IX. Reference Material
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Discussion Question
- The Yawp editors suggest that this 1899 cartoon from Puck magazine “captures the mind-set” of American imperialists, but how might it also be said to caricature turn-of-the-century imperialism?
For more information, see Brian Shott’s essay in David Prior’s edited collection on Reconstruction and Empire (2022)
- 1898 // War with Spain
- 1898 // Hawaii annexation
- 1899-1902 // Philippine Insurrection
- 1899-1900 // Open Door Notes
- 1900 // McKinley defeats Bryan in presidential rematch
- 1903-1914 // Panama Canal
- 1904 // Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
Toward a new “manifest destiny”
