A235, History of American Empire

Response sheet 22, for lecture class, Thursday

1.  What made some people qualified for freedom and self-government, and some people not qualified, according to Beveridge in 1898?


2.  What was happening in the world and the United States that made it imperative for the United States to reach into the world?


3.  How did Beveridge’s 1898 vision of the future amount to imperialism without colonialism?  What instead of colonialism?


4.  What was potentially useful and important about the Pacific world, according to Beveridge in 1900?  How did the Philippines figure in his vision of the future?


5.  What would American control of the Philippines look like, according to Beveridge?  (This was now imperialism with colonialism.)


6.  What were the limits to American power, according to Beveridge, once he dispatched with any constitutional constraint?