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MidLate 1800s Introduction to Imperialism ENTRY 25 Using the maps on page 457 and 476 in the book Where and in what ways was the United States active in World A ffairs ID: 904533

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Slide1

American Imperialism

Going Back in Time to Look at American Foreign Policy in the

Mid-Late 1800’s

Slide2

Introduction to Imperialism:

ENTRY #

25

Using the maps on page 457 and 476 in the book …

Where

and

in what ways

was the United States active in

World

A

ffairs

in the late 19

th

and early 20

th

Centuries?

What would have been the purpose of having the US sphere of

influence/imperialism

extended into those places?

Finally, based on what you now know, define

Imperialism

IN YOUR OWN

WORDS:

Slide3

What is Imperialism?

The Building of an Empire

According to your textbook,

Imperialism

is “the policy by which large nations extend their political, military and/or economic control over weaker territories.” This is a more traditional definition of Imperialism.

Also, at this time, imperialism includes “messing around” in other countries’ business, and creating

spheres of

(economic, military, and/or political)

influence.

Slide4

Boxer Rebellion 1900

(1958 statehood)

(1959 statehood)

Slide5

Slide6

Imperialism: Why?

Economic Benefit: Colonies and spheres of influence

are places to

extract

natural

resources and are markets

to

sell

goods.

They also serve as refueling stations for

ships, and bases for military strength to reach far and wide

Political power: every powerful nation is practicing Imperialism – must get a “piece of the pie” in order to be viable.

A “moral obligation”?:

American

Exceptionalism

refers to the theory that the United States occupies a special niche among the nations of the world in terms of its national credo, historical evolution, political and religious institutions and origins. …

Have we seen this type of belief before?

Back to

Social Darwinism & “White Man’s Burden”

Slide7

White Man’s Burden

With a

single

partner, read the passage and try to write down a short summary of each stanza (on the sheet, next to the stanza)

Then discuss, but

individually

answer the following Critical Thinking Question as

ENTRY #

26

in your Writing Notebook:

Putting yourself into the shoes of an American politician around the year 1890… why is it morally acceptable for the United States to be building an overseas empire?

Slide8

In

1890: How to make

an Empire?Control

Colonies or spheres of Influence

all around

the world.

Britain: India, Egypt,

Iraq, Australia, Canada

Germany: Ghana, New Guinea, Northern Mariana Islands

France: Algeria, Tunisia (a lot of North Africa), Vietnam, Madagascar

Belgium: The Congo, Rwanda, BurundiUnited States: ? (see maps)

Slide9

Source: Wikipedia (aka…Font of Knowledge)

Slide10

American Imperialism

: How?

T

he Key to Imperialism: A

G

igantic

Navy

Alfred Thayer Mahan:

The Influence of Sea Power Upon

History

(1890)Mahan wrote about how influential nations had to have powerful navies in order to project their power around the world

.

Argued that the US must build a modern fleet (by 1900, US had third largest Navy in the world).

Slide11

American Imperialism in 1890: Why the US, & Why at This Time?

By 1890 the American Western Frontier had closed

Their needed

to be a

new “safety valve”

for US expansionist impulses…

Frederick

Jackson Turner:

argued in

his

F

rontier Thesis

that the

US needs a place for rugged men to prove

themselves…that “over multiple generations, the frontier [during westward migration] had produced the characteristics of informality, violence, crudeness, democracy and initiative that the world recognized as ‘American’“…it is expand or die for Americans

Slide12

The Beginning of American Imperialism

1853 - Commodore

Perry in the

“Land

of the

Shogun”:

before the Civil

War Commodore

Perry drove his fleet into Japan and

opened Japan to trade with the US (and thus the rest of the west).

Japanese woodblock print

of Perry (center) and other high-ranking American seamen

Slide13

Early American

Imperialism

1867 - Alaska (“

Seward’s Folly

”/ “Seward’s Icebox”/ “Polar Bear Garden”) Lincoln’s Secretary

of

State, William

Seward bought Alaska from

Russia. People

thought he was

a lunatic for doing so,

but it turned out Alaska had lots of good

resources (oil, gold, timber..,) and would be a strategic location from which to pursue imperialism and during the Cold War.

Original check made out to Russia for $7.2 million, or about $.02 and acre!

(Alaska became the 49

th

State in 1958)

Slide14

Later

A

merican Imperialism

1889

–First International Pan-American Conference to encourage trade between the US and the 17 Latin American Countries – Led by American Secretary of State (under Grant), James Blaine.

The Pan American Highway from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Ushuaia, Argentina.

Slide15

Later American

Imperialism

Queen Liliuokalani became queen of Hawaii in 1891 and was against the increasing power of the white plantation owners in her nation.

1893 the planters, along with the help of US Marines, removed her from office….

1898 - Hawaii was proclaimed a territory…will become the 50

th

State in 1959