Spanish American War Imperialism

In the 19th century the scramble for control was under way when the Americans, Japan, and the Germans entered, other countries struggling with their empires. In the late nineteen century became a new age of imperialism in where technology and communications brought empire’s within reach. Many counties were joining the hunt fort new colonies, Americans preferred an indirect imperialism. The concept was first popularized during James K. Polk presidency, where he led the United States into the Mexican-American War of 1846. America’s version was that to “export products, ideas, and influence”, they viewed it as a “pure” version so they can share their values of democracy, and Christianity.

The United States has influenced many nations in the world throughout history. Some of the ways the U.S. has been able to dominate poor countries are with military action and corporate activities that allowed the United States to influence their governments. Since the United States extends its power with the previously mentioned methods, it is recognized as an imperialist nation. The United States has specifically demonstrated imperialistic forces in Latin America. The effects that the United States’ imperialism had on Latin American economies and politics were negative since it brought violence and caused the poor to struggle even more. When the United Sates government did not like policies that Latin American presidents were creating, they would take military actions to force American ideologies into Latin American countries’ governments by installing puppets into their governments. Generally, these countries would have flourished economically without the United States, but since the U.S. became involved with the countries’ policies, their economies have weakened because the U.S. wants the benefits of controlling countries’ resources without being responsible for the people who reside there. This pattern of the United States’ imperialistic behavior has been demonstrated many times in Latin America.

Imperialism is the acquisition of new territories by a state and the incorporation of these territories into a political system through diplomacy or military force. The goals of imperialism, as seen by the Europeans and the United States, were to provide raw materials, harbors for vessels, and to purchase the surplus production of farms and factories, but the differences between them were based on motivation, acceptance, time, and ultimately size. The result of the Spanish-American War caused the U.S. to acquire Cuba, which led the U.S. feel that it had the military strength to rival any European colony. After entering into the ideals of imperialism, American imperialism was a far different method that the form of any European nations mainly

The Spanish-American War was sparked by several events, and it also instigated some later occurrences. Imperialism was the act of establishing political and economic control over countries and areas around the world. The United States started doing this after Manifest Destiny, which was around the late 1800’s. America imperialized for power, global influence, a stronger economy, and military security. They eventually imperialized China, Japan, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Alaska, and the Samoa. The United States wanted to imperialize in Spanish areas, which was overall a motive for the Spanish-American War. Yellow Journalism and the rebellions in Cuba sparked the Spanish-American War, which later led to the battles in Cuba and the Philippines.

The Spanish American war marks historic value not only for the United States and Spain. At this time, Imperialism was high; the idea of taking over smaller countries and forming colonies, to support of a larger empire, thrived. Countries were constantly taken over without any say or understanding. At the same time however, other countries were being liberated to be independent powers. Spain’s thirst for power and the United State’s peace proposal instantly caused tension and war was initiated.

The U.S is undeniably the greatest empire in world history, in terms of both control and actual expansion of territory. This conclusion is found in the greatest annals of evidence known to literate man: History. In analyzing the history of the American continent post American Revolution, one can clearly conclude the tendrils of Imperialism in American culture. From such events as Western Expansion and the Mexican American war to the establishment of Banana Republics and overthrow of socialist governments in South America, the claim of the U.S being a gloriously successful empire is substantiated. Before such evidence however, one must historically ask oneself, “ What is an empire?”, and for the purposes of this work, it is defined as such:

The relationship between the United States of America and Latin America nations has been turbulent since the beginning of colonization. The United States had withheld a sense of superiority since its inception. Their view of Pan-Americanism is only shared by them; Canada and most Latin American nations do not share this view. They viewed Latin America’s struggle for independence as a necessity, but did not pledge their assistance until it coincided with American interests and objectives in the area. The author mentions Latin America’s one-crop economy, but they do not emphasize the role the US played in their economies or how much they were involved in their own politics. Recent events, in regards to Cuba, have made certain parts of the chapter

Currently the United States of America is facing a dilemma with Spain in deciding whether or not to go to war with them. After the explosion of the USS Maine, the public of the United States has been forced into the choice of getting involved. President McKinley doesn't want to go to war since he had a strict thought against it, but still the yellow press continued to broadcast news about anti-Spanish news. News soon started to spread of hateful message of Spain and this started to affect people's ideals. This then created a rally of people believing that war was necessary to go through. Theodore Roosevelt even criticized McKinley for being afraid and weak to get involved in any kind of war. McKinley had strongly disagreed with the public's

America practiced the tradition of isolationism when it came to its foreign policy for 110 years. The foundation for isolationism is typically given credit to George Washington in his farewell speech when he states, “The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible” America continued the policy of isolationism or non-interventionism up until the Spanish-American war. This is the first time in American history where significant foreign intervention is seen taking place.

The Spanish-American War was a war that happened between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish rule in the some place. The war happened because in Cuba try to get independence from Spain. That began in February 1895. Spain was very brutal in the measures that they took for the rebellion.Ggraphically they portrayed for the in the US very bad in newpaper, artcles, and many other things.

In the case of exports, changes in the geographical constitution of trade flows were even more marked. Governments in the developed nations provided agriculture with more support than any other sector, while many developing nations discriminated against farmers. This was especially the case in South America, where many countries opted early on for policies based on industrialisation and import substitution, which severely penalised their agro-export sectors. As a result, the continents that were most dependent on the export of bulk products (Africa, Oceania and South America) saw their share in world agricultural trade fall. Thus, both Africa and South America experienced a progressive decline in their relative share of the regional distribution

The Latin American Wars for independence were a turbulent time for former Spanish colonies. What ended as a success in achieving independence for many of the Latin American nations, did not begin with turbulence nor success. In-fact Spain and Portugal had ruled their American colonies for more than three centuries without professional military garrisons. In all those years there was not a single uprising that suggested irreconcilable differences with Madrid or Lisbon (Judge & Langdon, 2016, p.574). Most Latin American nations owe their liberation to a chain of events set in motion by Napoleon. In 1810, Spanish Americans or Criollos, sized the opportunity to carry out subtle revolutions while Spanish King Carlos IV had been imprisoned by the

Mexican history boasts of long and advanced civilizations that make most European civilizations seem primitive. The first inhabitants were said to have arrived at about 2000B.C. With the Mayan Empire being constructed in about the 12th century. However within the last two centuries Mexico has had relatively little success, consistent victims of imperialist powers the culture has suffered a great deal. The largest blow occurring when America annexed California by force. This last act of aggression would affect the Mexican economy and social structure for years, if not forever.

The year 1898 has come to be a watershed year. Many of the decisions made had a major impact on the country. The War of 1898 came in a decade of one of the most detrimental economic depressions in U.S. history (Perez 2). The U.S. economy was transitioning from being mainly agricultural to industrial during this time period. With the economy transitioning, it implied that the United States also needed new markets and territories from which to defend them from difficult times.

1. Three arguments’ that Juan Gines de Sepulveda used to justify enslaving the Native Americans were for gold, ore deposits, and for God’s sake and man’s faith in him. 2. Three arguments that Bartolome de las Casas gave in attacking Spanish clonial policies in the New World were the Indians eating human flesh, worshiping false gods, and also, he believed that the Indians were cowardly and timid. 3. For comparisons that Sepulveda used, in lines 1-7, to express the inferiority of the Indians was their prudence, skill virtues, and humanity were inferior to the Spanish as children to adults, or even apes to men. Comparisons he used to dismiss the significance of the Indians