USA Expansionist Foreign Policies

annexation

the process of attaching territory to an existing country, nation, or state that it had nor hitherto belonged

What are the 4 types of reasons for US expansion

political, economic, ideological, social

What was the influence of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s “The Influence of Sea Power on History”

The USA expanded and modernized its navy

What was the influence of the Monroe Doctrine

used as a nationalism dog whistle

to give Americans a sense of identity bc they broke away from Britain

Americans argued about the doctrine on both sides dividing the public rather than uniting it

What is the main idea/takeaway of the Monroe Doctrine

\-US expansion and resulting strength would ensure that the US would not be subject to further colonization

\-US institution were superior, so the lands the US expanded to would BENEFIT

What is the main idea/takeaway of James Blaine’s “The American System”

USA shouldn’t absorb Hawaii politically, but rather they need be a part of the american trade system

What is the main idea/takeaway of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s “The Influence of Sea Power on History”

The USA must modernize its navy now

What is the main idea/takeaway of the Turner Thesis

overseas expansion by the USA is a perfectly natural since the frontier is gone

What is imperial anti-colonialism

\-Americans were SO CONFIDENT in their anti-colonial stance that Americans felt secure in spreading this ideology to other lands to benefit them

\-US expansion and resulting strength would ensure that the US would not be subject to further colonization

a social reason for expansion

social Darwinism

political reasons for expansion

* 1875 treaty with granting tax free sugar trade w/ US (no tariff)
* 1887 treaty grants US Navy right to use Pearl Harbor
* European powers were also expanding rapidly giving the US motivation to become a major player

economic reasons for expansion

* the lucrative sugar trade drew American attention to Hawaii
* Panic of 1893 - necessitate the search for foreign markets
* the US was producing more than it could itself consume

ideological reasons for expansion

* the US didn't see ourselves as ¨taking over¨ but rather than moving into the ¨waste solitude”(according to TR) in the western US
* missionaries had been traveling from the US to the Pacific and Asia all throughout the 19th century
* the MONROE DOCTRINE

protectorate

territory that is nominally independent but under the official military and diplomatic protection of another country

gold standard

a monetary policy in which currency is readily convertible into gold, requires that a country’s supple of currency be tied to its supply in gold

infrastructure

sectors of the econ that assist in the production and distribution of raw materials, labor, and goods EX: railroads, roads, telegraphs

vertical integration

exists when a number of steps in the production of a single product are owned/controlled by a single company

horizontal integration

exists when a single company owns or controls a number of firms in the same stage of production of a single product

reconstruction

1865-1877 during which the states that had seceded from the union were reintegrated into the USA

monetary policy

govt policy that controls the supply of money in the economy

long depression

period of econ stagnation from 1873-1879, was a worldwide phenomenon reflecting the increasingly globalized economy of the late Victorian period