U4-Day 1:Causes of the Spanish-American War

The Monroe Doctrine:

Historical Context: 

Many countries in South America just gained their independence from European empires such as Spain and Portugal.

At the same time, Napoleon was defeated in Europe, The United States feared that European nations would once again try to establish power in the Americas.

The United States wanted to let Europe know that the United States would not allow the European kings to regain power in the Americas.

Multiple Choice

What was the United States afraid of?

• European countries gaining power in Latin America

• Latin American countries gaining power in Europe.

• The United States is never scared!

The Monroe Doctrine: 

President Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine, which warned European nations to stop colonizing or installing governments in Latin America. (the west) 

The Lasting Impact: 

The Monroe Doctrine had a long lasting impact on the foreign policy of the United States. Presidents throughout history invoked the Monroe Doctrine when intervening in foreign affairs in the Western Hemisphere. 

Some Examples of Monroe Doctrine

• 1865 - The U.S. government helped to overthrow Mexican Emperor Maximilian I who was put in power by the French. He was replaced by President Benito Juarez.

• 1962 - President John F. Kennedy invoked the Monroe Doctrine during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. placed a naval quarantine around Cuba which stopped the Soviet Union from installing missiles in Cuba.

  
  

Some more Examples of Monroe Doctrine.

• 1982 - President Reagan invoked the Monroe Doctrine when he intervened in Nicaragua and El Salvador to fight communism. 

• George Bush used the Monroe Doctrine when he invaded Panama to take down Manuel Noriega. 

Theodore Roosevelt's addition to the Monroe Doctrine aka The Roosevelt Corollary

• In his annual messages to Congress in 1904 and 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt expanded the Monroe Doctrine.

• The corollary stated that not only were the nations of the Western Hemisphere not open to colonization by European powers, but that the United States had the responsibility to preserve order and protect life and property in those countries. 

• In other words: If there were issues between Europe and any nation in the Western Hemisphere (the Americans/Caribbean etc) the USA had a duty to protect our neighbors -- even if they were a colony of a European Nation.

Match

Match the following

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Monroe Doctrine

• Cuba

USA will protect the "West" from Europe

Europe can keep colonies but no new ones

Spanish (European) colony close to USA

• USA will protect the "West" from Europe

• Europe can keep colonies but no new ones

• Spanish (European) colony close to USA

Open Ended

How do you think someone would get a nickname like "The Butcher"

Multiple Choice

What did the Monroe Doctrine say?

• Europe cannot make any new colonies in North America

• Europe cannot make any new colonies in Americas or Caribbean

• Europe cannot make any new colonies in Asia

• Europe cannot make any new colonies in Africa

Open Ended

Which one of these headlines do you believe is most likely real -- and why?

Multiple Select

Yellow Journalism is still around today -- more modern terms used today include MARK ALL T HAT APPLY

• "Click Bait"

• Fake News

• Satire News

• Tabloid News

Multiple Choice

What was the truth about the sinking of the USS Maine

• Spain torpedoed it

• a mechanical problem inside the ship exploded

• Cubans blew it up and blamed Spain so USA would help them fight the war

• Pulitzer and Hearst paid American thugs to blow it up so they could blame Spain and start a war

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT a cause for the Spanish-American War

• Yellow Journalism

• Imperialism -- Conflict between Cuba and Spain

• Imperialism -- US overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii

• Sinking of USS Maine

Multiple Choice

In the end McKinley decided to go to war anyway because

• It's what the American people demanded: "REMEMBER THE MAINE!!!"

• The Spanish King attempted to assassinate McKinley

• Congress threatened him with impeachment

• The Cuban government offered to pay him

Review - includes information from today's lesson and vocabulary terms

Multiple Choice

What event led to the start of the Spanish-American War?

• sinking of the USS Maine

• sinking of the USS Lusitania

• attack on southern Florida by Cuba

• the coronation of Liliuokalani

Multiple Choice

What role did the media(yellow journalism) play in the Spanish American War?

• shaped public opinion to go to war

• only covered facts of the events of the war

• play no role in the war whatsoever

• shaped public opinion to give the president war powers to declare war on Cuba

Multiple Select

Choose all reasons for US imperialism...

• the end of the frontier in the US

• desire to compete against European empires

• the need for more workers in the industrial age

• the need for new markets and more natural resources

Multiple Choice

__________warned against the establishment of any additional European colonies in Latin America.

• Roosevelt Corollary

• Monroe Doctrine

• Woodrow Wilson

• William H. Taft

Multiple Choice

Noninvolvement in world affairs is...

• expansionism
• isolationism
• imperialism
• annexation

Multiple Choice

Fake news is the modern term for what during the 1890s?

• yellow journalism

• red journalism

• false advertising

• negative journalism

Multiple Choice

This person, along with William Randolph Hearst, competed to sell the most newspapers in New York.

• Joseph Pulitzer

• Nellie Bly

• Charles Foster Kane

• William Henderson