america in the age of empire ch 4.1. monday, march 5, 2012 daily goal: understand how...
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AMERICA IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE
Ch 4.1
Monday, March 5, 2012
Daily goal: Understand how Anglo-Saxonism and a
desire for new markets encouraged American Imperialism.
Think About it… Why do countries expand and form
empires? What is their motivation and what do they have to gain?
Why do countries start empires?
New markets for Business Belief in Racial Superiority
Ten Thousand Miles from tip to tip
Desire for New Markets
New places to sell products and get raw materials.
The military was used to protect American investments overseas.
Imperialism
The economic and political domination of a stronger nation over weaker ones.
A Feeling of Superiority
Americans strongly believed in Anglo-Saxonism which argued that English-speaking people had superior characteristics, ideas, and systems of gov’t, and were destined to dominate the world.
Perry opens Japan
Perry Opens Japan
America sent Commodore Matthew C. Perry with a fleet of warships to force Japan to sign a trade treaty with the US.
Japan then begins to Westernize.
Hawaii US business - sugar
plantations
Amer. Business owned most land tax free
Massive immigration by Whites + Asians
US could import Hawaiian sugar tax free
Pearl Harbor Middle location between US and Asia
great natural location for naval station
Annexing Hawai’i
Sugar=$$$ Hawaii=Sugar Plantations US wanted Hawaii The planters gained power in Hawai’i and
overthrew Queen Luliuokalani with the support of the US Marines in 1893.
Hawai’i was formally annexed in 1898.
Queen Liliuokalani and Princess Kaiulani
Relations with Latin America America purchased many raw materials
from Latin America, but Latin American country’s bought most of their goods from Europe.
America wanted to sell more goods in Latin America.
America proposed the idea of Pan-Americanism.
Building a Modern Navy
Who was Alfred T. Mahan? What did his book argue the United States should do?
Who was Senator Henry Cabot Lodge? What did he support?