{"id":5571,"date":"2022-01-16T18:16:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/?page_id=5571"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T15:13:14","slug":"imperialism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/imperialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3>Did the United States embrace imperialism?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/\">American Yawp, chapter 19:\u00a0 American Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#I_Introduction\">I. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#II_Patterns_of_American_Interventions\">II. Patterns of American Interventions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#III_1898\">III. 1898<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#IV_Theodore_Roosevelt_and_American_Imperialism\">IV. Theodore Roosevelt and American Imperialism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#V_Women_and_Imperialism\">V. Women and Imperialism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#VI_Immigration\">VI. Immigration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#VII_Conclusion\">VII. Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#VIII_Primary_Sources\">VIII. Primary Sources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#IX_Reference_Material\">IX. Reference Material<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Image Gateway<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5572\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-1024x516.png\" alt=\"Cartoon\" width=\"940\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-1024x516.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-768x387.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-1536x774.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-2048x1031.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-12.54.59-PM-500x252.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Yawp<\/em> editors suggest that this 1899 cartoon from <em>Puck\u00a0<\/em>magazine &#8220;captures the mind-set&#8221; of American imperialists, but how might it also be said to caricature turn-of-the-century imperialism?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Reconstruction_and_Empire\/TG5WEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=louis%20dalrymple&amp;pg=PT395&amp;printsec=frontcover\">Brian Shott&#8217;s essay<\/a> in David Prior&#8217;s edited collection on <em>Reconstruction and Empire<\/em> (2022)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Timeline<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1882 \/\/ Chinese Exclusion &amp; Immigration acts<\/li>\n<li>1898 \/\/ War with Spain<\/li>\n<li>1898 \/\/ Hawaii annexation<\/li>\n<li>1899-1902 \/\/ Philippine Insurrection<\/li>\n<li>1899-1900 \/\/ Open Door Notes<\/li>\n<li>1900 \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/16-capital-and-labor\/#VI_William_Jennings_Bryan_and_the_Politics_of_Gold\">McKinley defeats Bryan in presidential rematch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1903-1914 \/\/ Panama Canal<\/li>\n<li>1904 \/\/ Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Chinese Exclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>The court decided\u00a0<i>United States v. Wong Kim Ark<\/i> on March 28, 1898. For 120 years since, anyone born in the United States, regardless of their race or class, or the immigration status of their parents\u2014except for the children of foreign diplomats\u2014instantly becomes a U.S. citizen. &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/10\/31\/birthright-citizenship-wong-kim-ark-222098\/\">Jonathan Katz<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_3302\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2018\/10\/30\/birthright-citizenship-trump-inspired-history-lesson-th-amendment\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.aefdf5c78ddb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3302 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/03\/Wong-Kim-Ark-925x1024.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/03\/Wong-Kim-Ark-925x1024.jpg 925w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/03\/Wong-Kim-Ark-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/03\/Wong-Kim-Ark-768x850.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/03\/Wong-Kim-Ark.jpg 1484w\" alt=\"Wong\" width=\"925\" height=\"1024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wong Kim Ark<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>First\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/chinese-exclusion-act\">Chinese Exclusion Act\u00a0<\/a>(1882) (National Archives)<\/li>\n<li>Background on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2018\/10\/30\/birthright-citizenship-trump-inspired-history-lesson-th-amendment\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.aefdf5c78ddb\">Wong Kim Ark<\/a>, litigant in Supreme Court case (1898)<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Katz,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/10\/31\/birthright-citizenship-wong-kim-ark-222098\">\u201cBirth of a Birthright,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Politico (2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/course-syllabus\/second-founding\/\"><strong>Fourteenth Amendment (1866 \/ 1868)\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><strong><em>Section 1.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.<\/p>\n<p><em>ORIGINS:\u00a0 Civil Rights Act of 1866\u00a0<\/em><em>SEC. 1:\u00a0 That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5605\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5605\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM-300x248.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM-300x248.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM-1024x845.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM-768x634.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM-363x300.png 363w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-17-at-8.05.25-AM.png 1238w\" alt=\"Harlan\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5605\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice John Marshall Harlan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Plessy v. Ferguson (1896):\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country.\u00a0 And so it is, in prestige, in achievements, in education, in wealth, and in power\u2026. But in the view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens.\u00a0 There is no caste here.\u00a0 Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.\u00a0 In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law.\u201d\u00a0<em>(Dissent by Justice John Marshall Harlan)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wong Kim Ark (1898):<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cGenerally speaking, I understand the subjects of the emperor of China\u2014that ancient empire, with its history of thousands of years, and its unbroken continuity in belief, traditions, and government, in spite of revolutions and changes of dynasty\u2014to be bound to him by every conception of duty and by every principle of their religion, of which filial piety is the first and greatest commandment; and formerly, perhaps still, their penal laws denounced the severest penalties on those who renounced their country and allegiance, and their abettors, and, in effect, held the relatives at home of Chinese in foreign lands as hostages for their loyalty. And, whatever concession may have been made by treaty in the direction of admitting the right of expatriation in some sense, they seem in the United States to have remained pilgrims and sojourners as all their fathers were.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014<em>Fuller \/ Harlan Dissent in Wong Kim Ark (1898)<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Toward a new &#8220;manifest destiny&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4865\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM.png\" alt=\"Gast\" width=\"1060\" height=\"658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM.png 1060w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM-1024x636.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM-768x477.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-15-at-8.25.00-PM-483x300.png 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>John L. O&#8217;Sullivan, Annexation (1845<\/h2>\n<p>\u201c\u2026other nations have undertaken to intrude themselves into [the fate of Texas], between us and the proper parties to the case, in a spirit of hostile interference against us, for the avowed object of thwarting our policy and hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Excerpted from John L. O\u2019Sullivan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pdcrodas.webs.ull.es\/anglo\/OSullivanAnnexation.pdf\">\u201cAnnexation,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<em>The United States Magazine and Democratic Review\u00a0<\/em>17 (July 1845): 5\u201310<\/p>\n<h2>William McKinley, Inaugural Address, 1897<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>We want no wars of conquest; we must avoid the temptation of territorial aggression. War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed; peace is preferable to war in almost every contingency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Woodrow Wilson, Annual Message, 1920<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>This is the time of all others when Democracy should prove its purity and its spiritual power to prevail. It is surely the <strong>manifest destiny<\/strong> of the United States to lead in the attempt to make this spirit prevail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Donald Trump, Inaugural Address, 2025<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And we will pursue our <strong>manifest destiny<\/strong> into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars. Ambition is the lifeblood of a great nation, and, right now, our nation is more ambitious than any other. There&#8217;s no nation like our nation. &#8211;Donald Trump, January 20, 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the United States embrace imperialism? American Yawp, chapter 19:\u00a0 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. 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