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Imperialism

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The policy, practice, or advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas

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Why do countries do imperialsim?

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Countries do it to gain power, wealth, territory, resources, trade, allies, &
influence around the world to create an empire.

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Larger countries felt…

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Imperialism had to be done to compete as a world power.

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Capitalism basic beliefs:

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competition, profit, individual incentive, free
enterprise/ownership, supply & demand, as it its basic beliefs which helps lead to great growth

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market economy/capitalism

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controls the Industrial Revolution

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Economic Growth =

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more markets to sell or gain materials aka

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Why do countries imperialize?

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To become a world power

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What is manifest destiny?

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God given rights- coast to coast

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What is beyond manifest destiny?

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go beyond west coast and imperialize in the pacific

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What did economic competition do?

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motivated the US to compete with European countries and increase export of our goods

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Why do countries want a favorable balance of trade?

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they want more goods exported than imported

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Reasons for Imperialism

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1.) military reasons
2.) anglo-saxton superiority
3.) spread democracy
4.) white mans burden

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military reasons

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The US wanted to get naval bases around the world

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Anglo-Saxton Superiority

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thought of a superior culture and had responsibility to spread Christianity, and other parts of US culture to other countries

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Why should the US spread democracy?

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The more like us the better for us, similar values in our core beliefs

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White Man’s Burden

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idea that US had a mission to uplift “backward people, commended growing support

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dependency of trade/economic

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by 1890’s US became more dependent on trade

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US trade rates

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exported 25% of farm goods and 50% of petroleum products

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How did americans think of imperialism?

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majority of americans supported it

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Who was Queen Liliuokalani?

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the Hawaiian queen who was forced out of power by a revolution started by American business interests

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Where did sugar cane mainly come from?

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Hawaii

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What is a tarrif?

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a tax put on imported goods

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Why rich white plantation owners want hawaii to become part of US?

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to get rid of the tax/tariff on imports

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Sanford B. Dole

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Led a revolt of planter against Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani in 1893

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How did sanford b dole try to get queen lil out of power?
made it look like an uprise in revolt, take the queen out of power and create a temporary government
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Alfred T. Mahan
-huge influence on US foreign policy -wrote a book "elements of sea power" which influenced many in government to follow thus began a push to move into the pacific and atlantic
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Cuba is...
off coast of Florida, also rich in sugar cane like hawaii
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spain had imperialized with a...
colony in cuba and thus controlled cuba
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cuba tried to revolt from spain and...
failed/lost
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many cubans that were leaders of revolt were...
exiled, but they still want cuban independence
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US business men owned...
Sugar cane plantations in cuba
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US miscalculation on trying to take cuba and hawaii
cuba was already controlled by spain, hawaii was free
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Jose Marti
-cuban exile in new york wanted a revolution for cuban independence -he knew the US would get involved if they had to protect their citizens (like what happened in hawaii)
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jose martin had rebels damage sugar plantations so...
the US would send troops to Cuba
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How does spain react to the cuba situation?
sends general weyler to stop revolts in cuba, and puts those considered threats into camps to control them
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Yellow Journalism
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers
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Hearst or Pulitzer
This man made his money as an editor of newspapers that practiced yellow journalism
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exaggerated stories were about
general weyler exaggerating the deaths in cuba
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weyler was called
the butcher
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hearst
"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war"
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example of yellow journalism headline
"the butcher is feeding kids to sharks"
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Senator Proctor
saw such in cuba
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the delome letter
president mckinely wanted to avoid problems and those tried to be diplomatic with spain, to talk and discuss something to solve it.
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How does the DeLome letter talk about McKinley?
criticizes him
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how americans thought of delome letter
it angered americans because they think only they can say bad things about their president, not anybody else
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the uss maine
-mckinely sent naval ship to cuba to see if it could help and was docked in havana port, cuba -big explosion takes place on the boat which took soldiers lives -hearst wrote 100s of editorials and demanded the maine and american honor be avened
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next day hearst headlines
"explosion of the maine was the work of the enemy (spain)" giving $25000 of his own money as a reward for any information
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rallying cry for the war
"remember the maine"
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what was already made up about spain and the war?
public opinion
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US declares war on Spain on...
April 25, 1898
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3 main causes of war
1.) yellow journalism 2.) delome letter 3.) uss maine explosion
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underlying cause of the war
imperialism, as the US used the war to gain territory, a few americans thought we took advantage of situation
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spanish-american war
-fought in Caribbean, Cuba + Puerto Rico -also fought in the pacific in the Philippines which was a colony of Spain's US will be able to set up naval bases in the Pacific if we win the war ** shows what we said about imperialism
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most fighting took place in...
cuba
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most famous battle and who it was lead by
San Juan Hill led by the rough riders (volunteer group group led by t. roosevelt-made roosevelt a hero)
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was with the rough riders
buffalo soldiers
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battle in Philippines
manila bay- easily won by the US admiral Dewey was victorious there
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only casualty
American man had a heart attack
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Anti-Spanish American War Feelings
-mark twain -andrew carnegie
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mark twain thoughts
was a war critic and wrote about it saying we got involved in the war for imperialism
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andrew carnegie thoughts
felt we could compete economically with Great Britain w/out imperialism
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america cuba political cartoon
US protecting Cubans from the Spanish
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year that US wins the war and becomes a world power
1898
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treaty that ends the war
paris
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philippines becomes a...
territory after much debate
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puerto rice...
easily becomes a territory
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guam and wake islands become...
territories
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dilemma is what to do with...
cuba
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Platt ammendment
added Cuba to give US more control there, thus Cuba becomes a protectorate
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territory
apart of the country, just separate piece of land
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Protectorate
partially controlled by the US, less control than a territory
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**school political cartoon
new territories will eventually like being apart of the US and assimilate to the culture
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Alaska Purchase
Secretary of State William Seward bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 Million ("Seward's Folly")
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Open Door Policy
Statement of U.S. foreign policy toward China. Issued by U.S. secretary of state John Hay (1899), the statement reaffirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade.
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US involvement in pacific following war
more involved
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Boxer Rebellion
a group of Chinese (named boxers by foreigners) of secret society) who wanted to remove foreigners from China, they rebelled but was eventually put down by a mix of troops of foreigners

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