Early Twentieth-Century Dbq
AP US History Document Based Question
To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Use the documents and your knowledge of United States history to 1914 to construct your answer.
Document A
Source: Thomas Nast. "The World's Plunderers." Harper's Weekly, 1885.
Document B
Source: Josiah Strong. Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis. New York: American Home Missionary Society, 1885.
"It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the world's . . . . The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, …show more content…
Beveridge. Speech to 56th Congress, Congressional Record 1900
"The Philippines are ours forever . . . . And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable market. We will not retreat from either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. And we will move forward to our work . . . . with gratitude . . . . and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world . . . . Our largest trade henceforth must be with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean . . . . And the Pacific is the ocean of the commerce of the future . . . . The power that rules the Pacific, therefore, is the power that rules the world. And, with the Philippines, that power is and will forever be the American Republic."
Document F
Source: Theodore Roosevelt. Annual Message to Congress, December 6, …show more content…
If every country washed by the Caribbean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt amendment, Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all question of interference by this Nation with their affairs would be at an
To what extent was late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? Use the documents and your knowledge of United States history to 1914 to construct your answer.
Document A
Source: Thomas Nast. "The World's Plunderers." Harper's Weekly, 1885.
Document B
Source: Josiah Strong. Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis. New York: American Home Missionary Society, 1885.
"It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an hour sure to come in the world's . . . . The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, …show more content…
Beveridge. Speech to 56th Congress, Congressional Record 1900
"The Philippines are ours forever . . . . And just beyond the Philippines are China's illimitable market. We will not retreat from either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. And we will move forward to our work . . . . with gratitude . . . . and thanksgiving to Almighty God that He has marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world . . . . Our largest trade henceforth must be with Asia. The Pacific is our ocean . . . . And the Pacific is the ocean of the commerce of the future . . . . The power that rules the Pacific, therefore, is the power that rules the world. And, with the Philippines, that power is and will forever be the American Republic."
Document F
Source: Theodore Roosevelt. Annual Message to Congress, December 6, …show more content…
If every country washed by the Caribbean Sea would show the progress in stable and just civilization which, with the aid of the Platt amendment, Cuba has shown since our troops left the island, and which so many of the republics in both Americas are constantly and brilliantly showing, all question of interference by this Nation with their affairs would be at an