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What is imperialism
Economic and political domination of a strong nation over weaker
Why did Europe expand overseas
Import raw materials for manufacturing
U.S. Motives for Expansion
European expansion, New markets, Social Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America
Pan Americanism
The idea that the United States and Latin American nations should work together
U.S. Trade in Latin America
U.S. bought raw materials from L.A.
L.A. bought their manufactured goods more from Europe than the U.S.
Yellow Journalism
A type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers
The USS Maine
U.S. battleship that was sent to Havana harbor to protect Americans living there by President McKinley and Exploded on February 15, 1898
“Rough Riders”
A cavalry unit of cowboys, miners, and law officers who volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War and TR led them
Treaty of Paris
Signed between U.S. and Spain in 1898
Cuba became independent
Platt Amendment
Conditions attached to Cuban independence & constitution
1. Cuba could not make any treaty with another nation that would weaken its independence
2. U.S. could establish naval stations in Cuba
3. Low Cuban debt
4. U.S. would have the right to intervene to protect Cuban independence and keep order
General “The Butcher” Weyler
Herded hundreds of thousands of people into “reconcentration camps” so they couldn’t help the rebels
Commodore Dewey- Sent to the Philippines
Ordered to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines since it was a Spanish colony
The U.S. and Cuba – Linked Economically
Americans invested money in Cuba’s sugar plantations, mines, railroads
Protectorates
European countries were creating these protectorates as parts of their empire
The imperial power protects local rulers against rebellions and invasion
U.S. “Opens” Japan to the World
Japan realizes how far behind their island nation is technologically, and begins to catch up
Japan allows the U.S. to begin trading with them
U.S. Ports in the Pacific
As trade with Asia grew, the U.S. needed ports for its ships to refuel and resupply across the Pacific
Hawaii and the U.S.
1893 Hawaiian monarchy overthrown by a group of American planters supported by the U.S. marines
Sugar Industry 1800s (American planters)
U.S. insist on naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii