Imperialism

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Imperialism

• To be or not to be?
• To be!

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Imperialist Ideas

• As American production and Industry boomed,
  Americans began to believe we needed to expand or
  explode.
• Ideas that led down the road to Imperialism.
• Manifest Destiny
• Power
• Population
• wealth
• productivity
• Safer overseas markets?
• Desire to spread religion overseas

Another factor contributing to American desire to
expand was called the yellow press or yellow
journalism. Created by Joseph Pulitzer and
William Randolph Hearst, these writings described
foreign exploits as manly adventures.
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Other Contributing Factors

• Darwinism - Teddy Roosevelt and congressmen Henry
  Cabot Lodge were interpreting Darwinism to mean
  that the earth belonged to the strong -and thus
  the US. (this idea will be reinforced when other
  imperialist nations start to grab some land).

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Other Contributing Factors

• Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan - in 1890 he writes
  The Influence of Sea Power upon History
  1660-1783, this book argued that control of the
  sea was the key to world dominance.
• This book stimulated a great naval race between
  the worlds great powers of the time.
• Many Americans began saying we needed a mightier
  Navy and a Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific

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Other Contributing Factors

• Blaine and the Big Sister policy
• the policy aimed to rally Latin America behind
  the US and open up Latin American markets to US
  traders
• The policy will bring about a new aggressiveness
  in America, and we will risk many a war against
  other emerging countries

Read About the Monroe Doctrine and the Venezuelan
Squall 625, Summarize and explain what this
tells you about the Monroe Doctrine, and America
willingness to back it up.
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American Planters Take Hawaii

• At the beginning Hawaii, had become a stopping
  point for American shippers, sailors, and
  whalers.
• In the 1820s many Americans came to preach
  Christianity, and their families stayed there.
• In the 1840s America told other countries to keep
  there hands off.
• In 1887 native government of Hawaii agreed to let
  the Americans put up a naval base at Pearl
  Harbor.

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American Planters Take Hawaii

• In the 1890s Sugar cultivation which had been
  extremely profitable in Hawaii went sour with the
  McKinley Tariff Act, which raised prices on
  foreign goods coming into the US
• There were many American planters in Hawaii, and
  they figured the best way to overcome the Tariff
  was to have the US annex Hawaii
• Queen Liluokalani tried to stop this, but the
  white planters with the help of some unauthorized
  American troops basically took over Hawaii.

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Cleveland Returns to Power

• When Cleveland becomes president again in 1893 he
  finds that America had done a great wrong to
  Hawaii. But with Queen Lilioukalani out of the
  picture and the white American planters firmly in
  Hawaiis government, the only thing he can do is
  hold of annexing the country for a little while

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The Cubans Revolt

• Spain had controlled Cuba for many years, but
  most of Cubas trade was with America, and many
  Cubans wanted independence from Spain.
• Of course America was on the side of the Cubans,
  and donated a lot of money to help them fight
  against Spain.
• Yellow journalism was used by Hearst and Pulitzer
  to make Spain seem even worse then they were to
  the Cubans

Read Pages 628 Cubans Rise in Revolt to 636
McKinley Heeds Duty and Answer? Regular History
watch McKinley Video clip
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