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IMPERIALISM:

IMPERIALISM:. THE POLITICAL EXPANSION OF A MORE POWERFUL COUNTRY WHICH TAKES CONTROL AWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF A LESS POWERFUL COUNTRY. MERCANTILISM. THE ECONOMIC PRACTICE OF A MORE POWERFUL COUNTRY TAKING THE RESOURCES OF A LESS POWERFUL COUNTRY TO ENRICH ITSELF.

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IMPERIALISM:

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  1. IMPERIALISM: • THE POLITICAL EXPANSION OF A MORE POWERFUL COUNTRY WHICH TAKES CONTROL AWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF A LESS POWERFUL COUNTRY.

  2. MERCANTILISM • THE ECONOMIC PRACTICE OF A MORE POWERFUL COUNTRY TAKING THE RESOURCES OF A LESS POWERFUL COUNTRY TO ENRICH ITSELF. • THE POWERFUL COUNTRY ALSO ESTABLISHES OR EXPANDS ITS MARKETS IN THE LESS POWERFUL COUNTRY (TO SELL STUFF THERE).

  3. COLONIALISM • THE PRACTICE OF A MORE POWERFUL COUNTRY ESTABLISHING SETTLEMENTS OR COMMUNITIES IN A LESS POWERFUL COUNTRY (OCCUPATION).

  4. NATIONALISM • A FEELING OF CONNECTEDNESS AMONG THE CITIZENS OF A COUNTRY. • IT GROWS, STRENGTHENS, AND OPPOSES THE INVADERS IN RESPONSE TO IMPERIALISM, MERCANTILISM, AND COLONIALISM.

  5. Why imperialize? • Raw materials • New markets for products • Economic advantages • Political power worldwide • Feeling of cultural superiority and desire to spread own ideas • Keeping up with other superpowers

  6. Why NOT imperialize? • Costs money to defend colonies • Could lead us into wars • Native people hate us • Goes against our Constitution

  7. Josiah Strong: we need new places to expand—let’s look overseas!

  8. Alfred T. Mahan: we need naval bases!

  9. Spanish-American War, aka “the splendid little war,” 1898

  10. America vs. Spain...WHY?

  11. Sinking of the Maine blamed on Spain

  12. Letter by Spanish minister De Lome criticizing our President

  13. Yellow journalism: Hearst, Pulitzer

  14. Concentration camps set up by General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba by Spain

  15. Poetry of Jose Marti, from Cuba

  16. Fighting in Cuba (San Juan Hill)Roosevelt’s Rough Riders

  17. Philippines (Manila Bay) under Dewey

  18. Fighting also took place in Puerto Rico

  19. When war ends: • Spain loses badly • Cuba gains independence from Spain • US acquires Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (for $20 million)

  20. US RELATIONS WITH SIX NATIONS

  21. HAWAII

  22. Important information • Good soil • Along key trade routes • Hawaiian sugar exempt from tariffs in exchange for Pearl Harbor base • Bayonet Constitution • American sugar plantation owners help overthrow Queen Liliuokalani • Independent under Sanford Dole 1894-98; then annexed to US; 50th state in 1959

  23. CHINA

  24. Important information about China • China opened 5 ports in 1843, tried to keep most foreigners out • Attacked by Japan • West took advantage and created spheres of influence (Britain, France, Germany, Russia) • US suggests Open Door policy to get equal access to China • Boxer Rebellion in 1900 against foreigners

  25. Important information about Japan • Becomes imperialist, modeled on Western countries • 1904—Russo-Japanese War • Teddy Roosevelt got Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty • Great white fleet from US

  26. CUBA

  27. Important information • Cuba trying to get independence from Spain since 1868 • Spanish-American War--independence • Teller Amendment stated US would not interfere with Cuba’s government after independence • Platt Amendment removed US troops from Cuba but reserved the right for US to intervene in Cuban affairs; protectorate • Guantanamo Bay • Today, Cuba is communist; embargo

  28. PUERTO RICO

  29. Important information • US got Puerto Rico as part of the deal at end of Spanish-American War • Foraker Act, 1900—governor and upper house appointed by US, lower house by people of PR • Jones Act, 1917—US citizenship, right for PR to elect both houses • Since 1952, a self-governing commonwealth

  30. Philippines

  31. Important information • Bought by US for $20 million at end of Spanish-American War • Huge debate over annexation • Three-year war against the US led by Emilio Aguinaldo; several hundred thousand Filipinos and over 4000 Americans died • Philippine Government Act, 1902—governor and upper house appointed by US • Jones Act, 1916—right for Filipinos to elect both houses • July 4, 1946--independence

  32. PANAMA

  33. Important information • Trying to shorten distance between oceans • 1880s, France tries to build canal across Isthmus of Panama • 1901—US offers Colombia $10 million and yearly rental of $250,000; Colombia wants more • US helps Panama declare independence from Colombia • Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty—US gets control over 10-mile-wide canal zone • Dr. Gorgas identifies mosquito as carrier of malaria, eliminates standing water • Control over canal went to Panama in 2000

  34. IMPERIALISM—GOOD OR BAD?

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