What is Imperialism?

1. What is Imperialism? Examine the cartoons and write down what you think Imperialism is.

2. Imperialism The maintaining of an empire by seeking foreign territory

3. "The Real British Lion"

5. The Rhodes Colossus

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7. SALVATION

8. Pro-imperialists Quoteabout the United States There was once an old 'Yank' who lives in a shoe Covered all over with red, white, and blue His family is large and still growing bigger The result of good work in snapping the trigger.

9. Uncle Sam: “By gum, I Rather Like Your Looks.”

10. America’s Expansion

11. Filipino's First Bath

12. Well, I hardly know which to take first!

13. The Game of Grab

15. Scramble for Africa

16. USA?

17. What the US has fought for:

18. Imperialism • When a powerful nation takes political, economic, and cultural control over another nation. • For example, Africa was carved up by European countries so to gain raw materials for industrialization.

19. By the late 1890's, the desire of big business for foreign markets and sources of raw materials encouraged territorial expansion overseas. I GOLD

20. Colony • An area in which a foreign nation gained control over a region by settlement or conquest. • For example, Great Britain controlled and settled the Thirteen American Colonies.

21. The US defeated Spain during the Spanish American War and acquired colonies abroad, fulfilling industry's craving for new sources of raw materials and the creation of a global empire.

22. Commercial competition with other imperialist countries encouraged further expansionism.

23. The White Man’s Burden • The attitude of Europeans & U.S. that their culture was superior. • Imperialist nations spread their superior culture to less developed nations. • Imperialist nations used this belief to justify imposing their values & beliefs on other cultures.