United States Expansion Overseas (1893 - 1917)

Duration: 22

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1958

Creator: Coronet Films

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Reviews the policies of Presidents Cleveland, McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt regarding U. S. territorial expansion overseas. Uses dramatizations, animated maps, historic motion picture footage, and still pictures to summarize chronologically the factors behind the acquisition of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Panama Canal Zone, and Guam., Expansion into Hawaii, Cuba, the Philippines and Central America and the shift from isolationism toward world power during the terms of Cleveland, McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt.

Complete Record: Reviews the policies of Presidents Cleveland, McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt regarding U. S. territorial expansion overseas. Uses dramatizations, animated maps, historic motion picture footage, and still pictures to summarize chronologically the factors behind the acquisition of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Panama Canal Zone, and Guam., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.