U.S. History Review Sheet: Chapter 20

DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY
Relations with Great Britain

Treaty of Washington (1871)
Reaction to French activity in Mexico

French puppet emperor in Mexico, Ferdinand Maximilian
Benito Juarez
Acquisition of Alaska

William Seward, Secretary of State

IMPERIALISM
Website with documents for and against American Imperialism
Platform of Anti-Imperialist League
Reasons

economic, social, political, and moral
Admiral Alfred Mahan
White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling
Hawaii

Organic Act of 1900: incorporation as a territory
Spanish American War: A Splendid Little War
Chronology by the Library of Congress

View of President McKinley (POTUS)
Cuban situation prior to 1896
Map of Cuba
Proximity to USA
Yellow Journalism
William Randolph Hearst: New York Journal
Joseph Pulitzer: New York World
de Lôme Letter
sinking of the U.S.S. Maine

U.S.S. Maine Memorials

campaigns in the Philippines and Cuba
Rough Riders on San Juan Hill
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Administration of the Empire

Cuba
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment
Puerto Rico

Foraker Act (1900)
Jones Act (1916)
Philippines

pacification of the Filipinos
China

Open Door Policy
First Open Door Note
Boxer ("Righteous Harmony Fists") Rebellion

Link to American Anti-Imperialism website

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