The U.S is not justified in annexing the Philippines and fighting a war to keep it because it was just a chance to exploit people and land to earn power and prestige. On April 25, the United States declared war on Spain following the sinking of the Battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor sent by President McKinley to protect U.S citizens. Cuba was the first to initiate its own struggle for independence. Spain used ruthless brutal tactics to bring down the revolt where the U.S intervened due to sympathy for Cuban rebels.
On December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the war. The US liberated Cuba, and got Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines as colonies for itself. * In 1901, before leaving, the US forced the Cubans to insert the Platt Amendment into their constitution, which gave the US a military base on the island (Guantanamo). Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines all became American protectorates. Panama Crisis * Theodore Roosevelt, who became president of the United States in 1901, believed that a U.S.-controlled canal across Central America was a vital strategic interest to the U.S. * The Panama Canal would shorten the distance that ships had to travel to pass between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
B. Summary of Evidence This so-called Roosevelt Corollary—a corollary is an extension of a previous idea—to the Monroe Doctrine contained a great irony. The Monroe Doctrine had been sought to prevent European intervention in the Western Hemisphere, but now the Roosevelt Corollary justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt renounced interventionism and established his Good Neighbor policy within the Western Hemisphere.3 The effects of the Roosevelt Corollary and Monroe Doctrine played a role in several issues in Latin America. For example, Panama has perpetually been the recipient of worldwide attention, due to its location.
Planters in Hawaii were understandably very displeased with this turn of events, so they plotted to make Hawaii an official territory of the United States. With tensions rising between American-Hawaiians and the government of Hawaii, the sugar growers continued to push for Hawaii to be annexed by the U.S. Finally in 1900 Hawaii became an official U.S. territory. I think the annexation of Hawaii is a clear-cut example of American Imperialism at both its finest and worst. All the facts point straight towards imperialism, such as building a naval base on Pearl Harbor and granting favored-nation status to control the economy of Hawaii.
Thus, they conducted a lobby to convince the American leaders of the superiority of the Panama Canal route over Nicaragua because there were volcanoes there, whereas Panama did not have any volcanoes. In the senate vote taken on June 19, 1902, was 42-34 in favor of Panama. Panama was an isolated province, and its inhabitants often rebelled against the government of Colombia. While the Colombian senate was debating and rejecting the canal treaty with the United States, a group of Panamanians was plotting a revolution. Although Roosevelt did order U.S. Navy ships in the Caribbean and Pacific to sail nearer to Panama, he was in certain ways, manipulated by Bunau-Varilla, who suggested that a revolution, establishing an independent Panama, might be the way to secure the elusive canal treaty and was conspiring with the Panamanians was plotting the revolution.
The annexation of the Philippines will only destroy our honor as a country. The taking of the Philippines is in complete hypocrisy to the social morals we have established as a nation. The United States of America was founded by the men and women who fought against the colonization of England and demanded religious freedom - people who felt oppressed and voiceless as the government enforced Catholicism on all. Do we want to impose this type of dictatorship on others? They derived the Constitution specifically separating church and state.
Should the United States Have Annexed the Philippines? The United States had gone into war with Spain in the summer of 1898. The reason for war was the bad treatment of the Cuban people by their Spanish masters. There was more to the story but the United States quickly became a major power to the world. In the next couple years Cuba was granted a kind of semi-independence and the Philippines Island became another matter.
Dear Congress of the United States, We should consider annexing the Philippines for numerous reasons. It would benefit this country in at least three ways or more. This includes the three motives for imperialism. Imperialism is a quest for foreign territory or spheres of influence. The three motives for imperialism consist of strategic advantages, economic advantages, and cultural advantages.
The Monroe Doctrine was the statement of U.S. policy toward Latin America. Scholars have interpreted the doctrine as the U.S. declaration of intent to be the principal power of the Western hemisphere.After Latin American nations overthrew Spanish and Portuguese rule in the early 1800s, the United States feared other European nations would try to claim the newly independent nations as colonies.President James Monroe's speech to Congress in late 1823 is known as the Monroe Doctrine. He declared the Americas off limits to any future European colonization and announced America's intention to stay out of European affairs.U.S. presidents invoked the Monroe Doctrine throughout the 1800s. For instance, James K. Polk told Europeans not to interfere in the U.S. dispute with Mexico over California and Texas in 1845.President Theodore Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904 proclaimed the U.S. would intervene militarily in Latin American nations considered unstable.
The Spanish-American War, 1898 The Spanish-American War of 1898 ended Spain’s colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power. U.S. victory in the war produced a peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba, and to cede sovereignty over Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines to the United States. The United States also annexed the independent state of Hawaii during the conflict. Thus, the war enabled the United States to establish its predominance in the Caribbean region and to pursue its strategic and economic interests in Asia. The war that erupted in 1898 between the United States and Spain was preceded by three years of fighting by Cuban revolutionaries to gain independence from Spanish colonial rule.