Imperialism: American Style

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Imperialism American Style

• U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Century

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Essential Question

• How and why did the United States take a more
  active role in world affairs?
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Imperialism

• Expansion by acquiring ownership /control over
  colonial areas/protectorates for economic,
  military, religious, or nationalist reasons.

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Reasons for

• Invest surplus capital
• ½ Billion by 1900
• Obtain raw materials
• Control Export Markets
• Establish naval and military bases
• Send missionaries to make converts
• Compete for world power

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Philosophy of American Imperialism

• Monroe Doctrine, 1823
• Manifest Destiny, 1840s
• Political Darwinism
• Racial Superiority
• Spread of Democracy
• Roosevelt Corollaryhemisphere policemen
• Building World Class Navy

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Influence of Sea Power Upon History

• Book by Alfred T. Mahan
• President of Naval War College, 1885
• Thesisthe great imperial nations of the past had
  gained their power prestige through naval
  supremacy
• 1880 fleet142 wooden vessels
• 1900 fleet3rd in world

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U.S. Territorial Acquisitions

• Alaska, 1867Sewards Ice Box
• Midway Islands, 1867
• American Samoa, 1878
• Annexation of Hawaii, 1893-1898
• Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, 1878
• Queen Liliuokalani
• Dole Revolution
• Republic then annexation

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U.S. Foreign Policy

• Perry Ends Japanese Isolationism, 1853
• Hays Open Door Policy with China, 1898
• Spanish American War, 1898
• T.R.s Big Stick Diplomacy

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• U.S. Instigated Revolt in Panama, 1904
• Tafts Dollar Diplomacy in L.A, 1909
• Completion of Panama Canal, 1914

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Causes Spanish American War

• American investments tariffs
• Cuban revolutionaries
• The Butcher-General Valeriano Weyler
• Yellow Journalism
• De Lome Letter
• Remember the Maine!

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The Splendid Little War

• War correspondents
• Naval Victory at Manila Bay
• Rough Riders

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Effects of War

• Cuban Independence, but
• Platt Amendment
• Annexation of Philippines, but
• Filipino Insurrection
• Acquisition of Puerto Rico Guam
• Growth of Nationalism

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