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AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD18 MARCH 2014

10.1 IMPERIALISM AND AMERICA

AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD`S NOTES18 MARCH 2014

MAIN IDEABEGINNING IN 1867 AND CONTINUING

THROUGH THE CENTURY, GLOBAL COMPETITION CAUSED THE UNITED

STATES TO EXPAND.

WHY IT MATTERS NOWDURING THIS TIME PERIOD,

THE UNITED STATES ACQUIRE HAWAII AND ALASKA, BOTH OF WHICH

BECAME STATES IN 1959.

INTRODUCTION

TO COMPETE WITH EUROPEAN

POWERS

AMERICA ALSO WANTED OVERSEAS COLONIES

INFLUENCED BY ECONOMIC

+ CULTURAL FACTORS

+ FUELED BY INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION

USA JOINED COMPETITION FOR RAW MATERIALS

AND NEW MARKETS

OBJECTIVE 1EXPLAIN THE ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL FACTORS

THAT FUELED THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN

IMPERIALISM

AMERICA WANTED

TO EXPAND

ALREADY EXTENDED CONTROL TOWARDS

PACIFIC OCEAN

SPURRED BY

MANIFEST DESTINY

MANIFEST DESTINY: BELIEF U.S. WOULD INEVITABLY EXPAND

WESTWARD

THEN FOLLOWED LEAD OF EUROPEAN IMPERIALIST

NATIONS

IMPERIALISM: STRONG COUNTRY CONTROLS WEAK

COUNTRY

ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, + MILITARY

CONTROL

ALREADY A TREND AROUND

THE WORLD

EUROPEAN NATIONS

HAD COLONIES

AMERICANS WANTED THE

SAME

USA ALSO WANTED…

DESIRE FOR MILITARY

STRENGTH

TO COMPETE WITH

EUROPEANS

THIRST FOR NEW MARKETS

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

SELL, SELL, SELL

BELIEF IN CULTURAL

SUPERIORITY

SOCIAL DARWINISM

SOCIAL DARWINISM: SURVIVAL

OF THE FITTEST

OBJECTIVE 2DESCRIBE HOW THE

UNITED STATES ACQUIRED ALASKA.

SUMMARIZE HOW THE UNITED STATES OOK OVER THE HAWAIIAN

ISLANDS.

USA BOUGHT ALASKA

FROM RUSSIANS

$7.2 MILLION

HAD NATURAL R E S O U R C E S

INCLUDING OIL

MOST AMERICANS RELUCTANT TO

IMPERIALISE

REMEMBER: USA HAD BEEN AN ENGLISH

COLONY

WILLIAM SEWARD

CONVINCED USA

ALASKA OFFICIALLY BECAME

STATE IN 1959

ALASKA IS A VERY RICH STATE

THAT SAME YEAR USA TOOK

MIDWAY ISLANDS

USA ALSO WANTED HAWAII

HAWAII HAD SUGAR

MANY AMERICANS HAD ALREADY SETTLED

THERE

AMERICANS OWNED

PLANTATIONS

SETTLERS CALLED FOR US TO ANNEX

HAWAII

US PRESSURED HAWAII

US BUILT NAVAL BASE AT PEARL

HARBOR

REFUELING STATION FOR AMERICAN

SHIPS

HAWAIIAN QUEEN OVERTHROWN

BY AMERICA

HAWAII BECAME 50TH STATE IN 1959

US EXPANSIONISM HAD

BEGUN