26: America Dodges A Bullet

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.
– Laura Anderson

In this fine lecture are these segments:

• 26a: Introduction
• 26b: An American Near-Tragedy
• 26c: America at 100
• 26d: Flirting with Imperialism
  
• 26e: Conclusions

 Important terms, concepts, individuals, and events:

states' rights, secession, Confederacy, Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, segregation, Wounded Knee, Cuba, USS Maine, Philippines, Theodore Roosevelt, Panama Canal

Questions for consideration:

1. What was the attitude of the Lincoln Administration to the Confederacy, and how did this affect the Reconstruction?
   
2. What changes did the closing of the American frontier in 1890 make upon the American concept of "Manifest Destiny?"
   
3. What were the long-term effects of the Spanish-American War upon America's role in world affairs?