The Quest for Empire

1865-1914

Lottie Moon

Expansionism vs imperialism

Foreign policy elite

Idea of a racial hierarchy

Male ethos and imperialism

Our Country

Burlingame Treaty

Massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming

San Francisco School Board’s segregation order

Student Volunteers for Foreign Missions

William H. Seward

Purchase of Alaska

Transatlantic Cable

Hamilton Fish

Washington Treaty

Samoan Islands

Navalism

Captain Alfred Mahan

New Navy

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

Hawaiian-annexation

Hawaii’s 1887 constitution

The McKinley’s Tariff of 1890

The 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government

The Venezuelan crisis of 1895

Cuban Revolution

Jose Marti

Wilson-Gorman Tariff

General Valeriano Weyler

The Maine

The de Lome letter

McKinley’s war message

Teller Amendment

Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War

Commodore George Dewey

Treaty of Paris

Anti-imperialist arguments

Imperialists arguments

Emilio Aguinaldo

Philippine Insurrection

The Moros

The Jones Act

The Open Door policy

Boxer Rebellion

United Fruit Company

Platt Amendment

Walter Reed

Puerto Rican-United States relations

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901

Panamanian revolution

Panama Canal

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

American investments in Mexico

Portsmouth Conference

Taft-Katsura Agreement

Root-Takahira Agreement

Great White Fleet

Dollar diplomacy

Anglo-American rapprochement