Unit Focus
- United States’ expansionist foreign policies: political, economic, social and ideological reasons
- Spanish–American War (1898): causes and effects
- Impact of United States’ foreign policies: the Big Stick; Dollar Diplomacy; moral diplomacy
- Causes, practices, and effects of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)
- Comparison with later conflicts in the Americas, such as the Falklands/Malvinas War and the Contra War
Unit Reading and Activities
- History of the Americas Course Companion – Chapter 1 (pp. 1-29)
- Class Discussion Point - Role of a Powerful Navy, p. 8
- Research Skills (pg. 9) using the reading and any other helpful sources
- Class Discussion Point (pg. 14) Influence of the Press
- Thinking Skills (pg. 15) Historical arguments for Spanish-American War
- Class Discussion (pg. 16) Industrialization and war
- Class Discussion ( pg. 17) Non-military deaths in war
- Class Discussion (pg. 17) Organized Labor and Philippines
- Using the documents provided, answer the questions with the Imperial Debate activity (pp. 18-19)
- Warship Tonnage (pg. 21) What changed?
- Class Discussion (pg. 21) Great White Fleet
- Research Skill (pg. 22) Panama Canal
- Complete Activity Backing Down in Venezuela (pp. 23-24) Questions 1, 3 & 4
- Source Skills (pg. 25) Compare and Contrast TR & Taft
- Read and answer the questions on the following political cartoons
- Document: Yellow Journalism cartoon
- Document: Big Stick Diplomacy cartoon
- Read the following documents for depth of understanding and discussion
- Canadian History in Documents – The Laurier Years (Expansion and Canada and the Empire)
- Document: The Roosevelt Corollary – Theodore Roosevelt
- Document: A Vindication of Cuba – Jose Marti
- Document: Imperialism in the Americas – Manuel Maldonado-Denis
- A History of Latin America –
- Directions: - Read the following Chapters or selections from A History of Latin America
Answer the following questions about your reading assignments from A History of Latin America.- Chapter 10 - The Triumph of Neocolonialism
- Read Chapter 12 – The Mexican Revolution and After (pp. 282-303 up to “The Big Bourgeoisie in Power”)
- Read Chapter 15 – Republican Brazil (pp. 364-370 up to Vargas)
- Read Chapter 17 – The Cuban Revolution (pp. 424-433 up to “Machado”)
- Read Chapter 20 – The Two Americas: United States – Latin American Relations (pp. 521-533) through Mexican Revolution
- Read pp. 336-338 (Military Dictatorship & Malvinas (Falkland Islands) War)
Read pp. 466-473 Nicaraguan Revolution (through Women and the Revolution)
Read pp. 543-549 (“Gunboat Diplomacy” through Latin America and the Gulf War)
- Directions: - Read the following Chapters or selections from A History of Latin America
- Illustrated History of Canada
- Read pp. 365-376 (Tall Ships and Telephones: The 1890s)
- Read pp. 403-409 (Laurier Liberalism)
| americas_in_global_affairs.ppt |
| the_united_states_becomes_a_world_power.pdf |
| spanish-american_war.pdf |
| the_mexican_revolution.ppt |
| canada_in_age_of_imperialism.ppt |
| 19thcentuslatinamrelations.pptx |
