American foreign policy from the Alaska Purchase to the election of Woodrow Wilson, with special emphasis on the Spanish-American War and TR's Big Stick Diplomacy
1899 political cartoon by Winsor McCay. Uncle Sam (representing the United States), gets entangled with rope around a tree labeled "Imperialism" while trying to subdue a bucking colt or mule labeled "Philippines" while a figure representing Spain walks off over the horizon. Reference to the United States taking control of the Philippines from Spain at end of the Spanish American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War.
"Kill every one over ten." - Gen. Jacob H. Smith.Bottom caption: "Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took thePhilippines"New York Journal -- May 5, 1902.
Jolly Roger Image Credit: WarX, edited by Manuel Strehl