APUSH AMSCO Unit 7.2

explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation’s proper role in the world

William H. Seward

lobbied for the buying of Alaska

purchase of Alaska (1867)

as appreciation for Russian support in the Civil War and from Seward’s lobbying, the U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million

Monroe Doctrine

gave the U.S. reason that it was their “duty” to imperialize

Queen Liliuokalani

American settlers helped overthrow the monarch

Hawaii

afterwards, they petitioned for annexation

Pearl Harbor

a U.S. military base on Hawaii

Venezuela boundary dispute

the U.S. told Britain to arbitrate or to face the U.S. military; led to a new British-American friendship rather than their former rivalry

Pan-American Conference (1889)

a permanent organization to promote cooperation on trade and other issues; James G. Blain played a principal role

“New Imperialism”

to gain control by arms or by economic dominance through economic and diplomatic means instead of the military

causes of U.S. imperialism

both industrialists and farmers wanted new markets/the ability to sell overseas without tariffs

Alfred Thayer Mahan

the US Navy Captain argued that a strong navy was crucial to a country’s ambitions of securing foreign markets and becoming a world power

expansionists

spreading the country onto other lands (now that the frontier was closed, where should people go)

Josiah Strong/Darwinism

wrote that Anglo-Saxons were the “fittest to survive” with a religious duty to colonize other lands to spread Christianity and their “superior” civilization and to demonstrate international strength