The Smuggler’s Empire I.National Character II.The Tools of Statecraft III.Building an American...

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The Smuggler’s Empire I. National Character II. The Tools of Statecraft III. Building an American State IV. Tariff Debate V. Gilded-age Diplomacy VI. Contraband VII. Regulating Trade VIII. National Greatness IX. Expansion X. Empire
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The Smuggler’s EmpireI. National CharacterII. The Tools of StatecraftIII. Building an American StateIV. Tariff DebateV. Gilded-age Diplomacy VI. ContrabandVII. Regulating TradeVIII. National GreatnessIX. ExpansionX. Empire

National

Character • Founding values

are initially hostile

to conquest,

expansion, and

even engagement

with the world:

– Self-determination

– Anti-Diplomacy

– No standing armies

– Constitution

Anti-diplomatic cartoon, 1805

The Tools of

Statecraft

•Diploma

cy

•Dealing

•War

•TradeAmerican gunboat in Japan.

Hiroshige, 1861

Building an American

State

• Whigs and Nullifiers (1832-54)• Civil War (1860-5)

• Reconstruction (1865-76)

Tariff

Debate •Protectioni

sts

•Reformers

•The Battle

Royal

Harrison versus Cleveland, 1888

Gilded-age Diplomacy

Principles Practices Monroe Doctrine

Promotional State

Open Door Reciprocity

“Keep off! The

Monroe Doctrine must be

respected.”

Judge, 1896.

Contraband

• Gangs

• Individuals

Smuggling on the

Rio Grande.

Harper’s Weekly,

1886

Regulating Trade

• Customs

• Consuls

• Secret

Service

The New York Customhouse, 1884

Enforcing Nationalism

• Fear rising inequality and the emergence of a cosmopolitan upper class, unbound by national loyalties

Harper’s

Weekly,

1879

Gender

• Protectionists

saw women as

social-climbing

consumers,

challenging the

masculine

producers’

republic.Female agent inspecting

traveler.National Police Gazette,

1879

Anglo-Saxonism

•Religion•Race

Jewish Smugglers

National Police Gazette, 1879

Black soldiers

Brownsville, TX, ca. 1906

Morality• High tariffs

on opium, liquor, sugar, and tobacco

• Comstock law (1873) bars importation of contraceptives and objects deemed obscene Searching Chinese immigrants for

opium, San Francisco, January 1882

National

Greatness

•Gender

•Frontier

•Race

Theodore Roosevelt, NYC, 1885

New Interests

• Manufacturi

ng

• Farming

• Merchandisi

ng

• Consumption

Candy label, 1868

Expansion

•Buildup

•Revoluti

ons

•Conques

tThe New Navy of the US, 1892

Empire

• Resistanc

e

• Insular

Cases

• AmbiguityRings seized from Pvt. Emil J. Pepke by Chicago Customs

officials , 1901