UNITED STATES HISTORY II
LECTURE OUTLINE THREE
- THE ROOTS OF AMERICA'S EMERGENCE AS A WORLD POWER
- Social Darwinism
- the sense of Anglo-Saxon superiority
- the closing of the frontier--Frederick Jackson Turner
- economic forces
- concept of the "New Navy"--Alfred Thayer Mahan
- LOOKING OUTWARD AND EARLY EFFORTS AT EXPANSIONISM
- William Seward's grand vision--Alaska, the Virgin Islands, and Midway Island
- America and Samoa
- Pan-Americanism and the 1889 Washington Conference
- CRISES IN THE 1890s
- Hawaii and the attempt at annexation
- Venezuela, Great Britian and the 1895 Olney Doctrine
- Cuba, "Butcher" Weyler and "yellow journalism"
- THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
- "Remember the Maine"
- Dupuy de Lôme's Letter
- McKinley's message and the outbreak of war
- The Congressional Resolution of April 19, 1898 and the Teller Amendment
- discussion of the motives for war
- overview of "A Splendid Little War"
- The Treaty of Paris (1898) and its provisions making America a world power
- debate over the Treaty and arguments about imperialism
- THE OPEN DOOR POLICY AND ITS ROLE IN AMERICAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- AN OVERVIEW OF PROGRESSIVISM
- characteristics of all Progressives
- goals of Progressivism
- PROGRESSIVISM AS A MIDDLE-CLASS MOVEMENT
- municipal progressivism--structural reform and socioeconomic reform
- the antidemocratic nature of municipal progressivism
- state progressivism--structural reform and socioeconomic reform
- the democratic nature of state progressivism's structural reform
- initiative
- referendum
- recall
- direct election of U.S. senators
- WORKING-CLASS PROGRESSIVISM
- definitions and features
- differences with middle-class progressivism
- organized labor's eventual alliance with working-class progressivism
- MORAL PROGRESSIVISM
- Prohibition
- Anti-immigration
- Democrats receive the political benefits of the reaction against moral progressivism
- NATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM--THEODORE ROOSEVELT
- Theodore Roosevelt and his strategies for the trusts
- publicity through the Bureau of Corporations
- trustbusting
- gentlemen's agreements
- administrative regulation
- 1903 Elkins Act
- 1906 Hepburn Act
- TR and the Square Deal
- 1906 Meat Inspection Act
- 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
- environmental issues
- 1906-1908 TR moves to the left
- WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND HIS PROBLEMS WITH THE REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVES
- Payne-Aldrich Tariff
- battle with "Uncle Joe" Cannon
- Pinchot-Ballinger Affair
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT vs. WOODROW WILSON
- 1912 campaign
- TR and New Nationalism
- Woodrow Wilson and New Freedom
- the contrasting positions of the New Nationalism and the New Freedom
- trusts
- the role and size of the federal government
- government's relationship with big business
- economic competition
- social welfare legislation
- NATIONAL PROGRESSIVISM--WOODROW WILSON
- his gradual shift wawy from the New Freedom
- Underwood Tariff (1913)
- Federal Reserve Act (1913)
- 1914 Clayton Anti-Trust Act
- Federal Trade Commission
- Wilson's acceptance of social welfare legislation
- Adamson Act
- Keating-Owen Act
- Kern-McGillicuddy Act