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America in the Age of Empire

America in the Age of Empire. Ch 4.1. Monday, March 5, 2012. Daily goal: Understand how Anglo- Saxonism and a desire for new markets encouraged American Imperialism . Think About it… Why do countries expand and form empires? What is their motivation and what do they have to gain?.

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America in the Age of Empire

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  1. America in the Age of Empire Ch 4.1

  2. Monday, March 5, 2012 • Daily goal: • Understand how Anglo-Saxonism and a desire for new markets encouraged American Imperialism. • Think About it… • Why do countries expand and form empires? What is their motivation and what do they have to gain?

  3. Why do countries start empires? • New markets for Business • Belief in Racial Superiority

  4. Ten Thousand Miles from tip to tip

  5. Desire for New Markets • New places to sell products and get raw materials. • The military was used to protect American investments overseas.

  6. Imperialism • The economic and political domination of a stronger nation over weaker ones.

  7. A Feeling of Superiority • Americans strongly believed in Anglo-Saxonismwhich argued that English-speaking people had superior characteristics, ideas, and systems of gov’t, and were destined to dominate the world.

  8. Perry opens Japan

  9. Perry Opens Japan • America sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry with a fleet of warships to force Japan to sign a trade treaty with the US. • Japan then begins to Westernize.

  10. The Last Samurai

  11. Hawaii • US business - sugar plantations • Amer. Business owned most land tax free • Massive immigration by Whites + Asians • US could import Hawaiian sugar tax free

  12. Pearl Harbor • Middle location between US and Asia • great natural location for naval station

  13. Annexing Hawai’i • Sugar=$$$ • Hawaii=Sugar Plantations • US wanted Hawaii • The planters gained power in Hawai’i and overthrew Queen Luliuokalani with the support of the US Marines in 1893. • Hawai’i was formally annexed in 1898.

  14. Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Kaiulani

  15. Relations with Latin America • America purchased many raw materials from Latin America, but Latin American country’s bought most of their goods from Europe. • America wanted to sell more goods in Latin America. • America proposed the idea of Pan-Americanism.

  16. Building a Modern Navy • Who was Alfred T. Mahan? What did his book argue the United States should do? • Who was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge? What did he support?

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