Read your assigned individual document. Analyze the arguments either for or against war, overseas expansion, and imperialism. Consider the

Read your assigned individual document. Analyze the arguments either for or against war, overseas expansion, and imperialism. Consider the

Hist 1, Professor Frickert-Murashige
Document Set for American Imperialism in the Pacific and Philippine-American War

Classroom Debate

Anti-Imperialism Group:

  1. “Democracy or Militarism,” (excerpts) Jane Addams, 1899
  2. “Comments on the Morro Massacre,” Mark Twain, 1905
  3. “Cables” President Emilio Aguinaldo, 1898 and “Letter to the American People,”
    1900
    Pro-Imperialism Group:
  4. “The Strenuous Life” (excerpts) President Theodore Roosevelt, 1899,
  5. “On Retention of the Philippine Islands,” Senator Albert J. Beveridge 1900
  6. “Benevolent Assimilation” President William McKinley, 1898 AND “Divine
    Revelation” 1899
    Instructions: Read your assigned individual document. Analyze the arguments either for
    or against war, overseas expansion, and imperialism. Consider the author’s arguments
    made on the basis of:
     racial ideology,
     religion/morality,
     military strategy,
     political and historical precedents,
     economic reasons,
     geo-political global factors,
     the impact on American democratic systems (including the free press)
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