TEST APUSH 1 (Imperialsim)

Rubiano

world power pros

-tough - military

-alliances

-bossy

-trade-

-land, Power

-safe

-longevity

World Power Cons

-enemies

-expensive

-allies

-burden, rep

-outward

-pressure, responsibility

why expand

-foreign policy

-US prosperity security development and influence

-Foreign Market

-Spread ideals, Capitalism

-Navy, need ports protect trade

-Balance of trade

-Superiority

-Religion missionaries

Annexation McKinley Tariff

-White people used to want all the land

Alaska

-Desire for Canada

-Rich in resource

Hawaii

American influence - ¾ wealth only 2% population

-Forced King to allow Amer. to vote

-McKinley Tariff = pushed for annexation

B4: focus on self

-industrialization, RR, W

Now:Expansion

-Domestic Benefit, economics, exceptionalism, Capitalism, Social darwinism, paternalistic view, racism

Isolationism vs. Imperialism

Def.

-Policy of remaining apart from political & economic int. with other countries.

-effort to dominate

Reasons for Expansion

-European countries

Imperialist:Alfred Thayer Mahan

-Influence of sea power

-need to expand, need strong navy

Henry Cabot Lodge

massachusetts senator - navy-US should create an empire

Teddy Roosevelt

Nation must grow strong & be ready to fight

Josiah Strong

Christian mission work was to extend to international borders in order to create a dominance of Anglo-Saxon beliefs while also creating an American Empire.

Anglo-Saxon race-should help inferior races, survival of fittest.

Fredrick Jackson Turner

Frontier Thesis

Anti-Imperialists

-Both parties

-Gompers

-Carnegie

-William Jennings Bryan

-Jane Addams

-Anti Imperialist League

-Against American Ideals

The Spanish-American war

-1865-Cuban rebels began agitated for independece

-1895- declared indep from Span

Spain’s respons

turnea tower turns into concentration

Who care about Cuba? Why are they important

US had 50 mil invested in Cuban Sugar

Rebels-destroyed sugar plantations to try to get the US to intervene.

McKiney - “Protect America business! Free the Cuban People”

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Sent by Spanish ambassador

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