Causes

Hawaii in 1898

Congo in Africa 1890 - bg

• Economic Reasons
  
• Ideological Reasons
  
• Strategic Reasons
  
• Political Reasons
  

Apostles

• navalists Stephen Luce and Alfred Thayer Mahan
• publishers Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst
• reporter/explorer Henry Morton Stanley
• bandleader John Philip Sousa
• writers John Fiske and Josiah Strong and John Burgess
• Senators Charles Sumner and George Shoup and Albert Beveridge
• Secretaries of State Hamilton Fish (1869-77), James G. Blaine (1881, 1889-92), Thomas F. Bayard (1885-89)
• businessmen Isaac Singer and Bernard Baruch and Meyer Guggenheim

Precedents

• In the Pacific: Hawaii, Midway, Samoa
• In the Caribbean: Dominican Republic, Cuba
• In Central America: Nicaragua, Panama
• In South America: Chile
• In North America: Alaska, Canada
• In Asia: China, Korea
• In Africa: Belgian Congo, Liberia

Crises of the 1890s

1. Hawaii revolution 1893
2. Brazilian naval revolution 1893
3. Mosquito Indian reservation 1894
4. Corinto affair 1895
5. Venezuela boundary dispute 1895
6. Richard Olney

Links:

• Republican Imperialism
• Imperialism maps
• Immigration waves
• Spanish-American War pictures
• Spanish-American War Films from American Memory at Library of Congress
• A Moment in Time With The Oregon [battleship BB-3] by Nat Richards from NavisMagazine for the 100th Anniversary of the Spanish-American War (1898-1998)
• Spanish-American War exhibit from NYPL
• World of 1898 Exhibit from LC
• Detroit Publishing Co. photos from turn of the century from LC American Memory
• Filmnotes for Fitzcarraldo and Victoria & Albert and Wizard of Oz and Hawaii's Last Queen
• Huxley file of illustrations
• Jonestown mass suicide of 1978, Yahoo index
• World map - bg
• Glass icon for Crystal Palace from BBC Nov. 7, 2003
• Hawaii Independent and Sovereign