history

Choose two people with opposing views on America’s role in the world during the period between 1890–1920. The following are some possible people to choose from:

What are the basic facts that both sides can agree on?

What did each person believe about imperialism?

How did they work in support of or in opposition to imperialism?

Were there any key events in their lives that affected their beliefs about imperialism?

write your dialogue between two people on different sides of the issue.

Anti-Imperialists

Pro-Imperialists

Jane Addams

Eugene Debs

Samuel Gompers

Jeanette Rankin

Mark Twain

Booker T. Washington

Ida B. Wells

Queen Liliuokalani

Emilio Aguinaldo

Minor C. Keith

Alfred Thayer Mahan

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

Josiah Strong

Woodrow Wilson