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AMERICAN IMPERIALISM. UNIT 3. Time to test your memories… . How many empires can you name? What was the “mother country” of those empires? Why did these countries build an empire? Why would a country want one? Major empires around 1900?. Key Terms. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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AMERICANIMPERIALISM
UNIT 3
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Time to test your memories…
How many empires can you name? What was the “mother country” of those empires?
Why did these countries build an empire? Why would a country want one?
Major empires around 1900?
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Key Terms
Imperialism: Controlling foreign colonies for a country’s own use
Manifest Destiny: The belief that Americans had the divine right to settle from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Oceans
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American Stance on Imperialism
From the Civil War to 1890, America had little interest in territorial expansion
America was not particularly fond of other cultures (remember the Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentleman’s Agreement, immigration, ect.)
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Rise of Imperialism Worldwide
By the mid-1890s, a shift had taken place in American attitudes toward expansion Why?
Between 1870 and 1900, the European powers seized 10 million square miles of territory in Africa and Asia!
About 150 million people were subjected to colonial rule
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Reasons for American Imperialism 1. Economic competition among
industrial nations 2. Political and military competition,
including the creation of a strong naval force
3. A belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon (white English descent)
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Economics In the United States, a growing number of
policy makers, bankers, manufacturers, and trade unions grew fearful that the country might be closed out in the struggle for global markets and raw materials.
By the 1890s, the American economy was increasingly dependent on foreign trade.
A quarter of the nation's farm products and half its petroleum were sold overseas
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Sea Power
Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval strategist and the author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that national prosperity and power depended on control of the world's sea-lanes.
"Whoever rules the waves rules the world”
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Racial Superiority A belief that the world's nations were
engaged in a Darwinian struggle for survival and that countries that failed to compete were doomed to decline also contributed to a new assertiveness on the part of the United States!
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Racial Superiority During the late
19th century, the idea that the United States had a special mission to uplift "backward" people around the world also commanded growing support
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War!!! Almost… During the late
1880s, American foreign policy makers began to display a new assertiveness. The United States came close to declaring war on Germany, Chile, and Great Britain.
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Building an Empire Where can America build an empire?
Caribbean Hawaii Pacific Islands
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Latin America Fights For Independence
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American and Hawaii In 1893, a small group of
sugar and pineapple-growing businessmen, backed by the U.S. military, deposed Hawaii's queen
Seized 1.75 million acres of land, and conspired for U.S. annexation of the islands, which was achieved in 1898
Hawaii became a state in 1959