Chapter 10, Section 1 Imperialism and America, Part A

1. Chapter 10, Section 1Imperialism and America, Part A

2. What is Imperialism? • A policy in which a more powerful nation imposes, in some combination, military, political, and/or economic control over a weaker nation or territory. 2. In the second half of the 1800s, European powers “scrambled” to carve up and control what continent? • Africa

3. 3. What Asian country, beginning in the 1860s, began a form of modernization that would propel it into the exclusive club of international powers? • Japan 4. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, more and more Americans warmed to the idea of what? • American expansion overseas

4. 5. Due in part to the influence of U.S. Admiral Alfred T. Mahan (1840-1914), the United States began to do what in the late 1800s? • Build up its naval fleet via steel warships 6. What were two of these early steel battleships? • USS Maine • USS Oregon

5. 7. What were three motivations for the United States to join the family of imperialistic powers? • A Desire for military strength • A thirst for new markets for American products • A belief in the cultural (even racial) superiority of white Americans

6. 8. By the late 1800s, the American economy was producing a surplus of what? • Agricultural goods • Manufactured goods 9. How would an imperialistic foreign policy help to alleviate the problems of the U.S. economy producing more products than could be consumed by Americans? • These surplus American products could be sold to consumers in overseas areas controlled by the U.S.

7. 10. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many Americans believed not only in white supremacy but an even deeper supremacy of which white ethnic group? • Anglo-Saxons(i.e., peoples whose ancestry stemmed from Britain and parts of Germany)