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- American idea that the continent was ours to take.
- By 1870, the continent was ours including Alaska.
- We set our eyes on the Pacific - “our Lake”
- We wanted to be a superpower.
- Need/desire for raw materials
- Cheap labor supply
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- TR & others firmly believed in a strong battleship navy.
- Necessary to become a superpower.
- 1900-1940: arms race was in navies; today, it’s nukes.
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- 1895 - War for independence in Cuba against Spanish rule begins.
- 1896 - Another uprising against Spanish rule in the Philippines begins.
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- U.S. was eager to flex it’s military muscle.
- Spain was seen as a cruel ruler of Cuba - Americans favored the rebels.
- Yellow Journalism - newspapers made up stories to sell papers.
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- In Havana harbor, the USS Maine blew up and sank.
- What happened?
- Who did it?
- Spanish blamed!
- Yellow Journalism - war fever!
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Notes