The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

590 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire As early as 1869 President Grant had come out for an American-owned canal across the ist ...

McKinley, for they feared that a crisis would upset the economy, which was just beginning to pick up after the depression. In Cu ...

592 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire and allow the Cubans to determine their own fate. Spanish pride and Cuban patriotism had ...

The “Splendid Little” Spanish-American War 593 Sailors on the USS Oregonwatch the destruction of the Spanish cruiser, Cristobal ...

CUBA BAHAMA ISLANDS JAMAICA PUERTORICO FLORIDA US Nav yco asta lblo ckad e See Inset Sam psonJun e^1 Spanish fleetdestroyed, Jul ...

The Anti-Imperialists 595 the United States. The war, won at so little cost mili- tarily, produced problems far larger than thos ...

596 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire divisive questions. An important minority objected strongly to the U.S. acquisition of o ...

Cuba and the United States 597 Fighting the insurgents in the Philippines proved unpopular and enlistments declined as the war d ...

598 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire said, could be kept “like a disembodied shade, in an indeterminate state of ambiguous ex ...

MEXICO Intervention: 1903,1908,1912, 1914–1916, 1918–1920 GUATEMALA Intervention: 1906 PANAMA Protectorate: 1903–1939 HONDURAS I ...

600 artillery officer during the Civil War and a fiery Republican congressman afterward. At six feet two and 200 pounds, he was ...

601 paragraph attributed Funston’s courage to the fact that he was too small to hit. But now, if he captured Aguinaldo, Funston, ...

602 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire American warships in the area provided a needed measure of political stability. In the l ...

to compete with Europeans. But once again European jealousies and fears rather than American cleverness were responsible. When t ...

604 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire Pauncefote, the British ambassador, and Secretary of State John Hay negotiated an agreem ...

The Panama Canal 605 Lake Gatun Miraflores Lake Caribbean Sea PACIFIC OCEAN Madden Lake Caribbean Sea PACIFIC OCEAN Panama Canal ...

606 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire and smaller but significant investments were made in the Dominican Republic and in Haiti ...

Chapter Review 607 penetration of underdeveloped areas without the trouble of owning and controlling them. American statesmen re ...

608 Chapter 22 From Isolation to Empire Key Terms dollar diplomacy A policy of President William Taft to promote American econom ...

Chapter Review 609 Read and Review Chapter 22 Uncle Sam Teaching the World, p. 588 Iolani Palace, Hawaii, p. 589 Twain, Incident ...