4th Six Weeks: Homework 5 (Due 1/21/2016) - Spanish-American War
Read (but do not outline) the copied pages from “Empire of the People”, a chapter from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.
In your notebook, define the following key terms in writing:
A. T. Mahan Henry Cabot Lodge Theodore Roosevelt Albert Beveridge
U.S.S. Maine Teller Amendment Platt Amendment
3. Answer the reading questions:
According to Zinn, what different reasons did Mahan, Lodge, Beveridge, and Roosevelt have for supporting American expansion overseas? (political, economic, etc.)
What was the “open door” that many American businessmen wanted?
How did labor unions respond to the possibility of a U.S. war in Cuba?
Where and how did the U.S. expand its empire after the Spanish-American War?