UNIT #4 – BECOMING A WORLD POWERLESSON #1 – Imperialism

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LESSON #1 – Imperialism

VOCABULARYImperialism (142)

Protectorates (142)

Anglo-Saxonism (143)

Commodore Perry (144)

Treaty of Kanagawa (144)

Queen Liliuokalani (145)

Pan-Americanism (145)

• ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

1. Why did America start pushing for an overseas empire?

2. What regions of the world did the USA come to control in the late 1800s to early 1900s?

Overseas Markets

Compare the amount of exports from 1870-1890. How much was the increase?

What changed from 1865 to 1900?

Overseas Markets

What is it saying about our interaction with the rest of the world?

Analyze what this graph is showing us.

Overseas Markets

Without a big Navy, what might happen to our overseas investements?

Why might a bigger navy be handy?

Imperialism• Definition: (142)

• Two types: (142)– Colonies

– protectorates

- weak territories protected (and partly controlled by stronger ones). A country defends its protectorate, but it doesn't own it, and it doesn't meddle with the protectorate's internal affairs.

- a territory which is governed by another country. There is no independence for a colony, it is under the direct rule of another country.

a policy of extending a country's power through use of military force. It creates an unequal human and territorial relationship, based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance.

What’s happening here?

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world

What does this suggest about how England and France see the rest of the

world?

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British Queen

German King Russian

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Japanese Emperor

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What are all

the guys with

knives doing?

That’s a map

of China

What is this suggesting about the relationship of China with England, Germany and Russia?

America Expanding• What gave England and the USA the right to conquer other

lands and people?– They thought they were superior to other [less

technological) regions, like Africa, Asia, and islands in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

• Anglo-Saxonism –– Belief that English speaking nations were superior to other

regions of the world, in…• Character• Creativity• Systems of government

– What do you think motivated Americans to think in this racist way? Were they trying to justify some actions they were about to take?

The Spanish Empire

World Empires, around 1775

1. Why would America have a problem with this map of the world?

2. What do you think America will want to start doing, once they settle in and feel strong as a nation?

American Expansion

Step #1

Explain what’s being suggested here

American Expansion

Step #2

Explain what’s being suggested here

The new American Navy• Americans started modernizing in

early 1800s• Americans used Navy to expand

influence into the Pacific islands• Example: Japan (144)

– Explain what we did, and what we got. (Japan)

1853 – US Warships sailed into Tokyo Bay. 1854 – Japan signed TREATY OF KANAGAWA giving USA special trading rights with Japan

Taking Hawaii• Step #1 – American investors moved into Hawaii and set up

sugar plantations• Step #2 – American government allowed American investors to

not have to pay tariffs in America to sell their sugar• Step #3 – America convinced Hawaii to grant America the

exclusive right to build a Navy Base at Pearl Harbor• Step #4 – American plantation owners in Hawaii forced

Hawaiian king to accept a constitution that limited his power over them– Their goal: for USA to annex Hawaii

• Step #5 – Planters overthrew Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani• Step #6 – USA annexed Hawaii in 1898

1. Was America justified in the way they took Hawaii?

2. England got control of China by forcing then to go to war. People died. What’s different about the way we got our protectorate?

Diplomacy in Latin America• United States wanted Latin America to purchase more products from USA• They’d been buying most of their goods from Europe• USA suggested PAN-AMERICANISM, which meant all the American

nations should work more closely together.• Latin American nations felt like USA was forcing them into treaties.• They agreed ONLY to form an Organization of American States

1. Why would USA want Latin America to buy more from them, than from Europe?

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

1. What did Adolph Plessy do? (135)

2. What “doctrine” did this lead to? (136)

He was a partially black man (1/8 black, and very light skinned) who took a seat on a train in a car designated just for whites

The doctrine was known as “separate but equal,” and led to legal discrimination in the South that lasted for more than 50 years