American Imperialism: Becoming a World Power, 1865-1917
Economic Imperialism
Reactionary Politics
Reasons for an American Empire:
1. Manifest Destiny (global)
2. Financial Reasons
Glut Thesis
3. Religious & Moral Reasons
American Missionaries
Josiah Strong
Our Country, 1885
4. Geopolitical Reasons
American Fears
Imperial Contenders
How to Empire Build:
1. Massive Military Buildup
2. Territorial Acquisitions
3. Aggressive Foreign Policy
The Naval Buildup
Pacific Acquisitions
Asia
Treaty of Wanghsia, 1844
American military force
Samoa
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Pago Pago, 1872
1. Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Sugar plantations
Annexation of Hawai’i
Queen Lili’uokalani
American Rebels
Republic of Hawaii
Stanford Dole
2. Cuba
Ten Years War
Jose Marti
Victoriano Weller
The Butcher
Position of the US
Neutral
Yellow Press
USS Maine
US Demands
Spanish-American War:
Results
Platt Amendment
U.S. investors
Sugar Production
U.S. Military
3. Philippines
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Independence Mvt.
Emilio Acquinaldo
U.S. military
War of Extermination
15:1
Results
4. Panama Canal
Columbia
U.S. attempts to purchase the strip
Bunua Varilla
Cessionist Mvt.
US support
Treaty that no Panamanian Signed
Canal
Results
5. China
Opium War
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Notes
Anti-western Sentiment
6. Mexico, 1910-1917
Monroe Doctrine, 1823
James Monroe
Mexican Revolution, 1910-1917
Francisco Villa
Emiliano Zapata
Porfirio Diaz
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American Businessmen & Bankers
Grant & J.P. Morgan
80% American Ownership
Oil
Mines
Railroad
U.S. Military Support of Mexican Govt.
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Teddy Roosevelt
Results
Nationalize American Owned Industries
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