America Becomes BigPresident William McKinley

Objective

•By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain how America expanded its role in the world during the Presidency of William McKinley.

America Today

•How much power and influence does America have today?

America’s Power

•Do you think America has always been really powerful and influential?

America’s Power

•NO!

•Most powerful countries were in Europe.

British Empire (Red)

America’s Power

•How do you think America became powerful?

How did America become Powerful?

•The huge number of inventions between the years 1875 - 1910 coming out of America made it powerful.

How Did America Become Powerful?

•One huge step towards power happened with the Spanish - American War of 1898.

Spanish American-War

•Under President William McKinley, America was becoming more powerful. They started having an opinion on issues outside of the U.S.

•America supported Cuban independence from Spain.

McKinley and Cuba

Spanish-American War

• The U.S. sent the boat the USS Maine to sail around the island of Cuba to show the Cubans that they support their independence from Spain.

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The USS Maine Blew Up!

THE WAR BEGINS!•For the first time, the U.S. fought a war as a country outside of the U.S.

• The U.S. attacked the Spanish in Cuba, and they went after their colonies in the South Pacific Ocean because they thought Spain blew the boat up!

Rough Riders

• Future President of the United State, Theodore Roosevelt, led a group of soldiers into Cuba.

• They were really successful.

• They were called the Rough Riders!

The War Is Over• America was too powerful for the

Spanish and they won the war in 10 months!

• President McKinley and the U.S. won their first war overseas.

• At the Treaty of Paris they got a bunch of former Spanish colonies in the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Why is this special?• FIRSTS!

• This was the first time America had control of land overseas!

• This was the first time America won a war that happened outside of the U.S.

• This was the first time America was looked at as a strong country!

• European countries started to second guess messing with the U.S.

Major Player/Key Points

• At the turn of the century (1898), President William McKinley was a huge fan of flexing America’s Muscles.

• America was able to become strong because of all the change that was happening in America at that time.