Chapter 27

Question 1

Overseas Expansion (Economic) 27-1

Answer 1

America wants to expand overseas, outside of just the U.S. because of its growing economy.

Reasons:
- Agricultural and Industrial production boom
- New sense of power due to wealth, population, and productive capacity
- Labor violence and farmer unrest (after Industrial Revolution); they thought that oversees market would be safer and less worrysome

Question 2

Overseas Expansion (Social) 27-1

Answer 2

Americans wanted to become an Imperial Power (like many Europeans countries) for many social reasons.

Reasons:
- The “Yellow Press” by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst fantasized foreign exploitation by man
- Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge interpreted Social Dariwinism as strong countries like the U.S. needed to take over other countries
- We wanted to civilize other “uncivilized” societies and peoples
- Europe had already taken over so much foreign land that the U.S. needed to act now to get what is left in order to become an imperial power

Question 3

Development of the Navy 27-1

Answer 3

Americans began to take up the idea that navy power and sea control was crucial to world dominance

Question 4

Big Sister Policy 27-1

Answer 4

Policy aimed at rallying Latin American nations behind American leadership and opening markets in Latin American countries for trade

Proposed by James G. Blaine