AMERICA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRECh 4.1

Monday, March 5, 2012 Daily goal: Understand how Anglo-Saxonism and a

desire for new markets encouraged American Imperialism.

Think About it… Why do countries expand and form

empires? What is their motivation and what do they have to gain?

Why do countries start empires?

New markets for Business Belief in Racial Superiority

Ten Thousand Miles from tip to tip

Desire for New Markets New places to sell products and get raw

materials. The military was used to protect

American investments overseas.

Imperialism The economic and political domination of

a stronger nation over weaker ones.

A Feeling of Superiority Americans strongly believed in Anglo-

Saxonism which argued that English-speaking people had superior characteristics, ideas, and systems of gov’t, and were destined to dominate the world.

Perry opens Japan

Perry Opens Japan America sent Commodore Matthew C.

Perry with a fleet of warships to force Japan to sign a trade treaty with the US.

Japan then begins to Westernize.

The Last Samurai

Hawaii US business - sugar

plantations

Amer. Business owned most land tax free

Massive immigration by Whites + Asians

US could import Hawaiian sugar tax free

Pearl Harbor Middle location between US and Asia great natural location for naval

station

Annexing Hawai’i Sugar=$$$ Hawaii=Sugar Plantations US wanted Hawaii The planters gained power in Hawai’i and

overthrew Queen Luliuokalani with the support of the US Marines in 1893.

Hawai’i was formally annexed in 1898.

Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Kaiulani

Relations with Latin America America purchased many raw materials

from Latin America, but Latin American country’s bought most of their goods from Europe.

America wanted to sell more goods in Latin America.

America proposed the idea of Pan-Americanism.

Building a Modern Navy Who was Alfred T. Mahan? What did his

book argue the United States should do? Who was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge?

What did he support?