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Prompt: How did economic opportunity and competition with European empires guide the foreign policies of William
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and/or Woodrow Wilson?
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Theodore Roosevelt
Content Analysis: What does it say? Extended Analysis (Identify/Describe) Extended Analysis (Explain significance)
The political cartoon is saying that 1) Historical Context/Situation Roosevelt’s economic opportunities and
Theodore Roosevelt was careless During this time period, Roosevelt’s competition with Europeans influenced to
with his imperialistic policies, approach to imperialism was very be the best at imperialism. So he started
specifically the ones that involved harsh. He was known to conquer to implement more things in his policies
American territories. The cartoon territories with very harsh techniques. that would ensure he would be great at
shows how Roosevelt used the Roosevelt was a big supporter of imperialism. This resulted in him becoming
Navy as a weapon and destroyed imperialism. more aggressive when conquering other
nations.
the lands that he wanted to add to
2) Intended Audience Of course some Americans disagreed with
to the American empire. The
The intended audience could have been Roosevelt’s policies involving
territories the cartoon is referring
Americans that did not know the imperialism. This cartoon was addressing
to are located near the Caribbean severity of Roosevelt’s approach to the people that did agree with
Sea, such as Cuba. Roosevelt is imperialism. They would have learned Roosevelt’s policies by displaying as a
pictured as being a giant with a big the severity of his intrusions in other careless leader.
bat and pulling around the countries.
American Navy as if they were 3) Purpose Roosevelt’s plans were very controversial
toys to show exactly how The purpose of this cartoon was to amongst the American people. Because of
destructive he was. It is pictured as show the people how bad his way of the policies that were made supporters
if he did not know or care about imperialism was. and non-supporters of the policy were
the chaos he was causing. attacking each other through social media.
4) Point of View In this particular images, the cartoonist did
The point of view was from a person not agree with the policies that Roosevelt
who does not agree with Roosevelt’s had that surrounded imperialism. A lot of
policies. Americans viewed them as too harsh and
unnecessary.
Prompt: How did economic opportunity and competition with European empires guide the foreign policies of William
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and/or Woodrow Wilson?
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William McKinley
Content Analysis: What does it say? Extended Analysis (Identify/Describe) Extended Analysis (Explain significance)
This cartoon is showing that William 1) Historical Context/Situation The economic opportunities and
McKinley was catering to the During William McKinley’s presidency competition with European countries
government and following it’s orders. America was having conflicts with Spain could have been overwhelming to
He was simply giving the government over the independence of Cuba. McKinley during his presidency. As a result
what it wanted. He was contributing Because of these conflicts the US and he could have depended heavily on his
any input of his own beliefs but he Spain started the Spanish-American government while making these policies.
was doing what he thought the War. During the Spanish-American War
government would have wanted. This America started to find more territories
cartoon is saying that McKinley that they will later conquer in the
dedicated his presidency to the future.
desires of the government rather 2) Intended Audience The intended audience would have been
than the people. The intended audience could have been more aware of McKinley’s policies and
Americans that were clueless to the plans after looking at this cartoon. They
policies of imperialism, at least during would have known the specific areas of
McKinley’s presidency. The cartoon where the American imperialism is
would have showed them the occuring. They could easily gain more
territories and the believed process of information by knowing the location of
how the territories were being where everything was happening.
conquered.
3) Purpose The distributing of this information helped
The purpose of the cartoon was to to spread awareness of the issue.
share the beliefs of some people for Therefore, more people could form
why the president was getting all the opinions on supporting imperialism or not.
territories. It displays his mentality
while he was creating an imperialistic
empire. It also shows the lands of
interest that America was looking at.
4) Point of View The point of view of this cartoon shows
The point of view comes from someone how and why people criticised McKinley.
who does not agree with the policy They thought his policy making was not
making strategies that McKinley had. genuine and unnecessary.
This person is also someone who has
kept up with McKinley’s plans and
knows what he is doing.
Prompt: How did economic opportunity and competition with European empires guide the foreign policies of William
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and/or Woodrow Wilson?
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Prompt: How did economic opportunity and competition with European empires guide the foreign policies of William
McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and/or Woodrow Wilson?
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Woodrow Wilson
Content Analysis: What does it say? Extended Analysis (Identify/Describe) Extended Analysis (Explain significance)