Background Essay on Creating an Empire
Expansion and Imperialism
This essay re-introduces an often forgotten event—the Philippine-American War—and explains contemporary debates around the war and the ascencion of the United States to the ranks of colonial powers.
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
2015
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Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Imperialism Words for Political Cartoons
Expansion and Imperialism
This list of words can be used by students to create political cartoons about the Philippine-American War in the activity "Create a Cartoon of the Philippine-American War."
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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Lessons in Looking: Imperialism Cartoons
Expansion and Imperialism
This activity teaches students how to break down different elements of a political cartoon. Students examine how different symbols and images can be combined to convey meaning. Then students analyze a 1902 political cartoon about U.S. expansion overseas and the acquisition of new territories in the Philippines in Cuba. This activity includes a Smartboard Notebook file.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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Savage Acts excerpt
Expansion and Imperialism
<p>This short excerpt is from ASHP/CML's 30-minute documentary <em>Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs, and Empire 1898-1904.</em> <em>Savage Acts</em> links the pageantry of world's fairs to the story of the Philippine War, America’s first attempt to claim an overseas colony and a turning point in U.S. foreign policy. Philippine diplomats and fighters as well as U.S. politicians and soldiers tell their experiences of the conflict and the opposition it sparked. This documentary is available for <a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/shop/#savage">purchase</a>.</p>
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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William Jennings Bryan Speaks Out Against Imperialism (with text supports)
Expansion and Imperialism
William Jennings Bryan was the Democratic party candidate for President in 1900. He opposed U.S. expansion into the Philippines and often criticized U.S. imperialism in his speeches during and after the 1900 campaign.
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan, “Imperialism,” recorded in 1901; from Michigan State University, Earliest Voices: A Gallery from the Vincent Voice Library, http://www.historicalvoices.org/earliest_voices/bryan.html.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
1901
English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
A Senator Speaks in Support of Empire (short version with text supports)
Expansion and Imperialism
In this 1900 speech to Congress, the Republican Senator from Indiana, Albert J. Beveridge, strongly calls for the United States to annex the Philippines.
Albert J. Beveridge
Congressional Record, 56th Congress, 1st Session, 9 January 1900, 704-712; from Vincent Ferraro, ed., "Albert J. Beveridge: In Support of an American Empire," Documents Related to American Foreign Relations 1898-1914, http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ajb72.htm.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
1900
English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Active Viewing: <em>Savage Acts</em>
Expansion and Imperialism
This activity is designed to help students understand key ideas from the documentary film <em><a href="http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/savage-acts/" target="_blank">Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs, and Empire 1898-1904</a></em>. The film is divided into short segments with suggested viewing strategies and questions to keep students focused.
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American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2011.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
2011
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English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Advance of Kansas Volunteers at Caloocan
Expansion and Imperialism
Motion pictures were still a novelty at the outbreak of the Philippine War, but film’s ability to generate patriotism and public interest in the war encouraged early filmmakers to produce a number of war films. Several cameramen went to the Philippines to film the military efforts, but recreations of battles filmed in rural New York and New Jersey proved to be more popular. This footage recreates a battle between troops under Colonel Frederick Funston and Philippine nationalists. The Edison catalog of 1899 called it “one of the best battle pictures ever made.â€
Edison Manufacturing Co.
Library of Congress
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
1899
English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
"Filipinos Are Preposterously Misrepresented"
Expansion and Imperialism
This newspaper article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, provided one of the few opportunities for a Filipino to address a U.S. audience about the Philippine Reservation exhibit at the 1904 World’s Fair. The article extensively quotes Vicente Nepomuceno, a Philippine lawyer, member of the Philippine honorary commission, and critic of the U.S. occupation. The honorary commissions was created in response to Filipino protests against the St. Louis fair’s portrayal of the Philippines.
St. Louis-Dispatch
<em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</em>, 19 June 1904; New York Public Library
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1904
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"Domestic Arts of the Bagobos Women, in the Philippine Village, St. Louis World's Fair, 1904"
Expansion and Imperialism
The Philippine Village exhibition at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair included over one thousand Filipino men and women, many from indigenous tribes who were displayed in several “villages.” The Philippine Reservation promoters claimed that U.S. fair visitors could view and come to understand life in the Philippines as it was really lived. Many of the villages featured women’s work, especially the weaving of textiles and newspaper articles referred to their industrious nature. Stereographs such as this one were sold by the millions to individuals and schools for entertainment as well as education.
T.W. Ingersoll
"Domestic arts of the Bagobos women, in the Philippine Village, St. Louis World's Fair," black and white stereoscopic image (photograph); from Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94512206/.
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
1904
English
Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)