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• Study Guide to page 102.
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The 2nd Industrial Revolution was a
time period of growth for US
manufacturing.
The number of factories in the United
States grew, as did the nation’s wealth.
American businesses were increasingly
relying on machines and looking for
new markets to sell goods.
This created a greater need both for
natural resources and people with
whom to trade
America looked to the Pacific for
natural resources and new markets to
trade goods.
Learning Goal 1
• I will be able to:
– Define Manifest Destiny, imperialism, isolationism
– List and explain two reasons for imperialism
– Explain why Alaska was purchased
– Summarize two reasons the purchase of Alaska
was so important
– Cite and explain two reasons the US turned to
imperialism in the Pacific
Belief destiny expand
to Pac. Ocean; God’s
will
Empire, expand
borders & influence
Am. power &
Cheap, $.02/acre
expansion
Expand borders
Not everyone liked,
“Seward’s Folly” b/c
frozen wasteland;
Wm Seward, Sec of St.
1. 1st ex. of US imp.,
1867
2. Gold in 1890, Nat.
Res. Fur, timber,
oil
Avoiding affairs w/
other countries
Don’t get dragged
into action don’t want
Coaling stations in Pac G. Washington, 1780s,
(rest stops on T-pike), Am. For. Pol. until
Nat Res & trade mrkts 1860s.
Open Door Policy –
equal access to C.
resources
Imperialism… “our hemisphere!”
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Now
• 1. Read your notes.
• 2. Turn to and read Learning Goal 2 and the outline.