American Imperial Acquisitions
WHAT WAS THE MEANS AND MOTIVE OF US
IMPERIAL ACQUISITIONS?
Review
Money, money, and more
money
US business can become rich and
wealthy through trade
Industrialization created too
many goods
Food, steel, manufactured items
Somebody needs to buy it!
Now we need to take over places
to get our stuff to market!
Religion
Bring Christianity to the
“savages”
White man’s burden
Education, culture, religion,
society, all things Western
Alfred T Mahan and the Theory of Sea Power
Those with a better navy will
be able to trade more
We need to take over places
for
Our navy to refuel
To protect trade routes
To sell people our “stuff”
So that others don’t get there
first
Rest stops to China
Hawaii
• In 1893
business
leaders get rid
of the Queen
Lili’uokalani
• Sugar!
• Naval Base
•
Pearl Harbor
Panama
Instead of going around
S. America, build a canal
in the middle of Panama
Save 8,000 miles of
travel!
US Navy can use, and
trading boats
Was owned by Columbia
US organizes
Panamanians to have
revolution, and separate
US asks for canal in return
Spanish American War 1898
Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines owned by Spain
We steal them in quick war, why?
Guantanamo Bay, Manila Bay
Guatemala, Central America
Profit, control, nobody
else can get it, secure
trade routes
Keep Europeans out of our
backyard
Controlled through
economic imperialism
Bananas become #1 industry
there
United Fruit Co is American,
become Chiquita Banana
Had a monopoly
Exit
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