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The U.S. goes Imperialistic

The U.S. goes Imperialistic. US History Paulson Dec 2, 2010. Spark 10. The following quotes come from the Age of Imperialism. They are numbered. For each quote, write A.) how you think the quote is related to American Imperialism, and B.) do you agree with the quote?

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The U.S. goes Imperialistic

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  1. The U.S. goes Imperialistic US History Paulson Dec 2, 2010

  2. Spark 10 • The following quotes come from the Age of Imperialism. They are numbered. For each quote, write A.) how you think the quote is related to American Imperialism, and B.) do you agree with the quote? • Justification for Imperialism? • Argument against Imperialism? • Not nice, but necessary? • Just good business strategy? • Nationalistic and war-hungry?

  3. Quote 1. “I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one.” • -Teddy Roosevelt 1897

  4. Quote 2 “We want a foreign market for our surplus products.” • President William Mckinley 1899

  5. Quote 3 “American factories are making more than the American people can use, American soil is producing more than the American people can consume. Fate has written our policy for us, the trade of the world must and shall be ours.” • Senator Albert Beveridge , 1897

  6. Quote 4 “the countries with the biggest navies will inherit the earth. Americans must now begin to look outward.” • Cpt. A.T. Mahan, late 1890’s

  7. Quote 5 “This is a crime against white civilization. All the great masterful races have been fighting races…No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war.” • T. Roosevelt – 1893 after U.S. decided, temporarily not to annex Hawaii.

  8. Quote 6 "Could there be a more damning indictment of that whole bloated idol termed 'modern civilization' than this amounts to? Civilization is, then, the big, hollow, resounding, corrupting, sophisticating, confusing torrent of mere brutal momentum and irrationality that brings forth fruits like this? ….God damn the United States for its vile conduct in the Philippine Isles!“ -William James, early 1900

  9. Agenda • Spark • Vid Clip • Notes • Tomorrow-Computer Lab???

  10. Key Ideas • Nationalism- • Imperialism • Jingoism • Dollar Diplomacy • Muckracker • Suffrage • Civil Disobedience -On the left side of the line on your sheet- predict what these words/terms mean or refer to -You will put actual meaning on right side of line

  11. Key Ideas/Terms • Nationalism- devotion to one’s nation – usually accompanied by belief of superiority • Annex- to join a new territory to an existing country • Jingoism- intense burst of national pride and desire for aggressive foreign policy-largely attributed to MEDIA!! • Dollar Diplomacy – policy used by Pres. Taft – maintain “orderly societies” abroad through dollars-not bullets

  12. Key Ideas cont. • Muckracker– journalists that alerted the public to wrongdoings in business and politics • Suffrage – the right to vote --- in this era the term is dominated by women’s fight to gain the right to vote • Civil Disobedience – peacefully disobeying laws of the land

  13. Setting the Scene: A foundation for Imperialism • The Monroe Doctrine of 1823 defined United States foreign policy in the Americas for the rest of the nineteenth century and beyond. It declared that the United States had an interest in the Western Hemisphere and that European powers must not meddle in the affairs of any developing nations there. However, the policy was used to justify the sending of U.S. troops into Mexico in 1866 (to intimidate the French) and the purchase of Alaska in 1867.

  14. Foundations for Imperialism • The idea of manifest destiny gained popularity in the 1830s and 1840s. (The term was coined in 1845 by newspaper columnist John L. O'Sullivan.) As people began settling the western territories, wresting control of the land from the original Native American inhabitants, many Americans came to believe that it was their nation's "manifest destiny" to possess all of the North American continent. Later in the century, this idea easily gave way to larger dreams of expanding America's influence around the world.

  15. Foundations for Imperialism • By the late nineteenth century, the growing industrial economy of the United States was producing many more goods than the nation itself could consume. This overabundance of industrial goods led the United States to look for new markets abroad.

  16. Foundations for Imperialism • European nations such as England, Spain, France, Russia, Portugal, Germany, and Belgium had already carved up Africa and large parts of Asia into colonies and "spheres of influence" by the late 1800s. To remain competitive, the United States reacted to European imperialism by looking for a way to secure its own economic future through a policy of expansionism

  17. Summary: Why Imperialism grew 4 Factors: • Economic factors • Nationalistic factors • Military factors • “Humanitarian factors”

  18. Remember good ole’ G.W. • Farewell Address in 1796?? • “Stay away from alliances” • “Stay out of foreign affairs”

  19. Arguments for U.S. Expansion • Economic Growth • Overproduction, financial panics, expanding markets • Biz r/ships + political advising = “banana republics” (United Fruit Company and Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Honduras) • Protect American Security • Navy-Cpt. Mahan- argued for Navy to protect US $$ and influence abroad • Battleships, gun boats, torpedo boats, cruisers –by 1900

  20. Arguments for U.S. Expansion • Preserving “American Spirit” • Men like Henry Cabot Lodge and T. Roosevelt felt America “losing its vitality” • Frontier closed- new project=Empire Building • Social Darwinism • “Civilized races vs. savage races” • “noble pursuit for the civilized peoples of the world to endow the savages and heathen peoples of the world with Christianity”

  21. Spanish American War • Spark needed to start “Imperial fire” • Spain controlled Cuba, Cubans revolt • Yellow Journalism and Jingoism • Fight for readers ($$$) • W.R. Hearst, Pulitzer • Made up stories, exaggerated headlines

  22. Yellow Journalism and Jingoism

  23. Finally – Feb 1898 • USS Maine explodes off Cuba • Spain immediately blamed • “how long shall the U.S. sit idle and indifferent within sound and hearing of rape and murder?” • “Remember the Maine!” McKinley pressured to declare war

  24. “A splendid little war…” • Maps on p. 360 – Philippines/Cuba • Roosevelt and Rough Riders • 3 month war ends July 3 1898 • Navy gets practice • only 400 KIA

  25. Aftershock of S/A War • Foreign Policy forever altered • World policeman • Imperialism skyrockets • Cuba • Phillippines • Puerto Rico • Hawaii • Samoa • China

  26. Foreign Policy • Open Door-China • Panama Canal • Roosevelt corollary & Big Stick • Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy

  27. Reactions to Imperialism

  28. What about today? • Jingoism? • Yellow Journalism? • Involvement in foreign affairs?

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