World Power

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World Power
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Foreign Policy

• Isolationism
• Non-involvement in world affairs
• Advocated by George Washington in Farewell
  Address

• Expansionism
• Adding territories to the nation
• Advocated by Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Theodore Roosevelt

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Age of Imperialism

• a. Why did nations form empires?
• To gain raw materials and markets for their
  industrial economies
• b. What reasons did Americans use to justify
  their mission and empire?
• lift up the world with Western civilization
• spread Christianity

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• Alaska
• In 1867, US purchases Alaska from Russia for 7.2
  million
• Sewards Folly

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Pacific Islands
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Pacific Empire

• Hawaii
• 8 large islands that are 2,000 miles west of
  California
• American planters lead revolt against islands
  ruler
• 1900 U.S. annexes Hawaii as a territory

• Samoa
• Islands are 3,000 miles south of Hawaii
• U.S. competes with Germany and Britain for
  islands
• In 1899, three powers agree to deal that splits
  up Pacific islands

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China divided up by European sphere of
influence
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The Boxer Rebellion
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Pacific Empire

• China
• European powers have divided China into spheres
  of influence
• U.S. wants a part of China proposes Open Door
  Policy
• Chinese rebel but U.S. and other powers defeat
  the Boxers in 1899

• Japan
• In 1905, Russia and Japan fight a war
• Treaty of Portsmouth (NH) ends war
• Japan and U.S. become rivals for power in the
  Pacific Ocean

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U.S.S. Maine
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Spanish-American War

• 4. Spanish-American War
• a. What reason did Americans use to declare war
  on Spain?
• The explosion on the battleship U.S.S. Maine was
  blamed on the Spanish
• President W. McKinley asks Congress for war

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War in the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea
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Battle of Manila Bay
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American Empire after Spanish American War
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• b. What territories did we gain after the
  war?
• Cuba as a protectorate (sphere of influence)
• Puerto Rico
• Guam
• Philippines
• Spain was given 20 million for territories

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• c. What territory soon rebelled against American
  rule? Why?
• Emilio Aquinaldo led a rebellion in the
  Philippines against American invaders
• 200,000 Filipinos are killed
• 4,000 Americans
• Island becomes independent in 1946

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Latin America

• Panama Canal
• Did the U.S. have the right to build the
  Panama Canal? (p256-257)

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