imperialism what is it? look up the definition of imperialism
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Imperialism
• What is it?
• Look up the definition of IMPERIALISM
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US Imperialism…How Did We Get Involved?
It all started with this little guy…
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You’re probably wondering how this weird character could have
catapulted US Imperialism…here is the story…
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Selling the News
• Joseph Pulitzer VS. William Randolph Hearst
• Two major publishers in competition with each other
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Where does the cartoon fit in?
• Pulitzer had a cartoonist who created a slum child—it was popular!!
• Pulitzer was the publisher of the NEW YORK WORLD
• Hearst was publisher of the NEW YORK JOURNAL
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BACKSTABBER!!!!!
• The gap in circulation of the two newspapers was closing!
• But then….
• The cartoonist was LURED by Hearst to work for the journal
• SCANDULOUS!!!
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NO WORRIES, THOUGH
• Another cartoonist was hired by Pulitzer to continue the comic….WHEW!
• BUT…newspaper WAR continued and even was one of the causes of entering into war!
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“I’LL FURNISH THE WAR!”
• Both dispatched journalists to Cuba
• Cuba belonged to Spain
• Hearst hired a well-known painter to draw pictures of colonial oppression…but the painter said it didn’t exist! He wanted to come home!
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Hearst said in reply….
• “Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war.”
• In 1896, McKinley ordered the battleship Maine into Havana Harbor to protect American interests.