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Title: The Imperialist Vision


1
The Imperialist Vision
  • Chapter 12 Section 1

2
Imperialism
  • The economic and political domination of a strong
    nation over the other weaker nations.
  • Many European Nations had very Imperialistic View.

3
Protectorate
  • An area of land, or a colony which is not part of
    a country.
  • They allow another country to protect them, but
    in exchange they take advice and run their colony
    the way the Imperial Country wants them to.

4
Anglo-Saxonism
  • Similar to Manifest Destiny
  • People felt that it was the United States job to
    expand overseas and spread its civilization to
    other people.

5
Expansion in the Pacific
  • The United States began sending ships westward
    into the Pacific Ocean.
  • Dozens of ships a year were traveling to China to
    trade goods.

6
Trade with Japan
  • The United States also wanted to trade with
    Japan, but the rulers of Japan did not want to
    trade with us.
  • Matthew C. Perry was put in charge of taking
    several steam ships to Japan and to negotiate a
    treaty with them to begin trade.
  • Was he successful?

7
Annexing Hawaii
  • As Trade with China and Japan increased, many
    Americans became interested in the Island of
    Hawaii.

8
Pan-Americanism
  • The idea that the United States and Latin
    American nations should work together.

9
Building a modern navy
  • Many people in the United States in the late
    1800s thought our Navy needed to be more
    modern.
  • We already had a navy, so what did they mean by a
    modern navy?
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