Choose your Topics
Expanding American Global Influence
Choose 3 topics from below to investigate. Some topics will be easier; others will be more challenging! All topics are in regard to United States Foreign Policy as it developed from 1796-1917
Chapter 19 Foreign Policy Setting a Course of Expansionism (pp 247-57)
Chapter 20 The Spanish-American War (pp 258-67)
Chapter 21 Acquiring and Managing Global Power (pp 268-79)
| Realism & Idealism ch 19 |
Neutrality & Unilateralism ch 19 |
The Monroe Doctrine ch 19 |
| War of 1812 ch 19 |
Continental Expansion ch 19 |
Overseas Expansion--Imperialism ch 19 |
| Spanish-American War ch 20 |
Cuban Revolt ch 20 |
Role of the Press in US Foreign Policy ch 20 |
| The de Lome Letter & the USS Maine ch 20 |
"Splendid Little War" ch 20 |
Anti-imperialism ch 20 |
| Cuba and the Platt Amendment ch 20 |
Roosevelt Corollary ch 21 |
Dollar Diplomacy ch 21 |
| Moral Diplomacy ch 21 |
Latin America in the 1800's ch 21 |
Asia and the Pacific in the 1800's ch 21 |
| Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 presidency |
William Howard Taft 1909-1913 presidency |
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 presidency |
Notes
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The War of 1812 ???
For a good chuckle!
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, standing beside large globe, facing front
from: The Library of Congress, American Memory
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA