American Studies Senior Seminar: Weekly Assignment #2

The Era of Imperialism and the Dawn of Modernism (1890-1915)

Using your text, the internet or a basic American history text of your choice, review and be prepared to talk about the following topics by the time of our meeting next week

1) Turner's "Frontier Hypothesis"

2) Alfred Thayer Mahan's "The Influence of Sea Power on History" (1890)

3) Reverend Josiah Strong's "Our Country" (1886)

4) The Cuban Rebellion against Spain (1895)

5) The USS "Maine"

6) William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

7) The Spanish-American War (1898)

8) Henry Cabot Lodge

9) The "white man's burden"

10) Social Darwinism

11) The Platt Amendment

12) John Hay's "Open Door" policy

13) The "Boxer" Rebellion (1900)

14) The Hay-Pauncefort Treaty (1901)

15) The Russo-Japanese War

16) The Root-Takahara Agreement

17) Porfiro Diaz and the Mexican Revolution of 1910