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This document was written by American business owners to increase their power in Hawaii. They forced the Monarch into signing it and it took away the Hawaiian people's right to vote and decreased the Queen's and the Monarch's power. The new people in charge only did things to increase their financial success, leaving the natives powerless.

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By the end of the U.S. imperialism era the U.S. has became a big brother to Cuba, bought Guam, took control of the Philippines, and annexed Hawaii, which gave them more power, land, and resources.

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Many Americans believed that they were better than other races, and that God made the world just for them, so they could do anything they want with the land and other people. An example of this kind of thinking is from Albert J. Beveridge when he said, "Fellow citizens, it is a noble land that God has given us; a land that can feed and clothe the world;. . . . It is a mighty people that he has planted on this soil . . . It is a glorious history our God has bestowed upon his chosen people"

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Ever since America detached itself from Britain, it has always been trying to out do them. They want to "catch up" to them by conquering foreign lands so then they would be considered a global power like Britain. Albert J. Beveridge backs this claim up when he said, "They ask us how we will govern these new possessions. I answer: If England can govern foreign lands, so can America".

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As Americans saw the violent treatment of the Filipinos, they thought that imperialism went against the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution. They thought that America had no right to forcibly govern people who don't want to be governed because that is exactly what America fought against Britain for, and now they were the ones doing it to the Filipinos. The Anti Imperialist League Platform says that, "We regret that it has become necessary in the land of Washington and Lincoln to reaffirm that all men, of whatever race or color, are entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We maintain that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. We insist that the subjugation of any people is "criminal aggression" and open disloyalty to the distinctive principles of our Government."

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Effect- Spain Lost a Majority of its Power

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Effect- Spain Lost a Majority of its Power

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Because the U.S. won Cuba and the Philippines, and bought Guam from Spain, its global power drastically reduced. Those places were Spain's main conquests so without them they had no big foreign land, so they were no longer a threat to the countries near those places, and its only power was in Spain.

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The Americans thought that they were the best race, and all colored people were uncivilized. They believed that they were unable to care for themselves just because of their color. An example of this prejudice is in a poem named The White Man's Burden, where the author calls people of color "half devil and half child".

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In 1902 after the Spanish American war, Cuba became an independent nation (on paper). Because the U.S. wouldn't leave Cuba until they added the Platt Amendment to its constitution they were forced to add it in. This document allowed for the U.S. to "exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence", which really meant that the U.S. could do anything they wanted in Cuba such as having naval ports. Cuba couldn't sign anything with different countries so they were forced to become completely reliant on the U.S.

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Effect- Money from resources and trading

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Effect- Money from resources and trading

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With all of the countries involved, the only country that benefited was America. All of the others were oppressed, its people killed, and their land and resources taken. The U.S. was able to trade easier with Asia because how close Guam was to Asia, businessmen were able to make millions off of the Hawaiian sugar and the coffee from the Philippines, and America is still profiting because of its use of Hawaii as a tourist spot.

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After the King was killed and the Queen tried to get rid of the Bayonet Constitution, the U.S. brought soldiers into Hawaii threatening violence. Because the Queen didn't want any blood to be spilt she let them take control and they put her under house arrest and took away all of her power. It was then taken to the Senate, where the Times reported that, "the resolution providing for the annexation of the islands was brought to a vote in the Senate late this afternoon, and it was passed by the decisive vote of 42 to 21", without giving any consideration as to what the Hawaiian people wanted.

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When the U.S. went to war in the Philippines, they thought that those people were savages and devils, so they had no remorse and used unnecessary violence. These acts of violence were not ordered to the soldiers, the soldiers used this violence without permission because of their prejudices. An example of this violence is from a U.S. soldier who describes, “they took a tomato can and poured water down his throat until he could hold no more, and during this time one of the scouts had a whip . . . and he struck him on the face and on the bare back”. These men tortured him just for the fun of it. He was not threat to the men but they used violence against them anyway.

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Effect- War and Deaths in the Philippines

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Effect- War and Deaths in the Philippines

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When the Filipinos were free from Spanish rule, they wanted to start a republic. America, however, thought that they were unable of doing this because they were uncivilized. America then proceeded to start war with the Filipinos to help them become civilized which really meant killing as many of them as possible so they could have their land. From 1900 to 1915 they were at war, causing massive amounts of death and destruction of the Philippines.

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As America was growing, so was its Navy. They wanted a base on Hawaii because they had no other island on its West side to protect against Asia. International trading was also increasing and America wanted a port where ships could refuel for their journey to or from Asia.

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When the American and Chinese workers came to Hawaii they brought with them their diseases that the Hawaiian people had no immunity for. The documentary said that when the Americans first came there were about 800,000 Hawaiians, and when the king died, about 80% of the population had died off.

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One reason the U.S. wanted to take control of foreign lands is because of the different resources and the different things that grow in those countries. For example; Cuba was a great place for producing coffee and Hawaii produced sugar. The American sugar farmers in America would sell their sugar to the U.S. but eventually the U.S. put a tariff on their sugar because it was grown in a foreign land. This allowed for sugar grown in the U.S. to be the cheapest, so no one would buy the more expensive Hawaiin sugar. The sugar farmers wanted Hawaii to be annexed so they wouldn't have the tariff so they could make more money off of their sugar.

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Yellow Journalism is when papers print stories that aren't true because they are more exciting and more people will want to buy their paper instead of reading one with boring stories that are actually true. When the USS Maine blew up Yellow Journalism instantly said that, "NAVAL OFFICERS THINK THE MAINE WAS DESTROYED BY A SPANISH MINE", even though they had no evidence to back this up. The story caught on because it was exciting so many Americans got scared that they were being attacked which made the U.S. start a war with Spain so they wouldn't feel threatened. After closer examination we realized that Spain didn't blow up our ship, but we still wanted to go to war so they couldn't do anything, even though they had no intention of doing anything.

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The first Americans to go to Hawaii were the missionaries. Their goal was to spread Christianity to the Natives, and it worked quite well because the people accepted it, and about a third of the people converted. The missionaries themselves were not thinking about imperialism but after time they had children and grandchildren and they are the ones who started businesses to make money. They soon because very prosperous business men, but the wanted to make more money by getting rid of the tariffs. (See Make Money on Resources), so they got the idea for imperialism of the Hawaiian Islands.

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America thought that any country that didn't have the same government system was savage. The Filipinos started a republic when the Spanish were eradicated, but the U.S. still thought that they were unable to care for themselves. This political shows America carrying the Filipinos, who look like they are half devil and half children, through things like violence and ignorance to the ultimate goal of civilization.

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One reason the U.S. gave for going to war in Cuba was because of the Spanish reconcentration camps. Spain would put the Cuban people into camps and force them to work with little amounts of food and water so many people died. A U.S. general, Fitzhugh Lee, said that, "the number of deaths among the reconcentrados has amounted to 77 per cent". America said that they should go to war with Spain so they can help the Cubans get away from the reconcentration camps.

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On February 16, 1898 the USS Maine Blew up off the coast of Cuba. The ship was at Cuba because Spain had just invaded it, and the U.S. felt like Spain could easily attack America since Cuba is just 90 miles away from Florida. When the ship blew up we thought that Spain had done it, so we wanted to take control of Cuba so they couldn't be near us. (For more detail read Yellow Journalism)

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Imperialism is when a country takes control of a another country or land economically, socially, and politically; often against those people's wills and by military force. The U.S. began its imperialism in the late 1800's and ended in the mid 1900's. The U.S. had imperialism because imperialism grows a country's global power socially and economically.