day 2 power point
TRANSCRIPT
WELCOME!
You will not need your textbook today
PROS AND CONS TO
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
PROS CONS
THE NAVY AND
AMERICAN
INFLUENCE
ABROAD
IMPERIALISM CONTINUES AT SEA
AMERICA’S “ADULTHOOD”
Frederick Jackson
Turner’s Frontier Thesis
The Frontier
• alleviated overpopulation
• provided cheap or free
land
• offered new economic
opportunities
Many asked:
What should be done
when the West is gone?
A “NEW” FRONTIER
Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
• prosperous people of the past had built large fleets for trade
• a Navy to protect merchant ships and defend trade with other countries is crucial for development
Mahan’s book was a best seller and built public support for a Navy. Two senators, Lodge and Beveridge, pushed the cause in the Senate.
By the 1890’s, business leaders wanted new markets overseas and many thought it was America’s destiny to dominate the world.
BUILDING A
MODERN NAVY
MAHAN
America sought out new places to trade, and the Pacific offered a great market.
Japan resisted trade with America, but gave in after Commodore Matthew Perry's naval expedition in 1853.
THIS INLUENCED JAPAN. By the 1890’s Japan had a Navy and were building their own empire in Asia.
AMERICAN EXPANSION
IN THE PACIFIC
Pan-Americanism
“The idea that the United
States and Latin America
should work together”
(Appleby 2008, page 495)
DIPLOMACY IN
LATIN AMERICAN
SPHERES
OF
INFLUENCE
“AN AREA WHERE A FOREIGN NATION CONTROLS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUCH AS RAILROAD
CONSTRUCTION AND MINING” (APPLEBY
2008, PAGE 504)
It’s time to role play!
• You’re going to be put in groups.
• Each person in your group will have a
different country to play.
• LISTEN POLITELY
• TOLERATE and COMPROMISE
• You will have questions to answer on
your own first and a reflection to
complete at the end of class.
• Each member of your group will fill out
a worksheet for a grade.
• Be polite, flexible, and malleable in
thought. You have a role to play, but
compromise is important!
YOU RECEIVED A LETTER
HAY
IT’S TIME FOR A
MEETING OF THE MINDS!
I will monitor the time and
let you know when to
move on.
• About 1 minute for
each country to
present it points and
goals.
• About 3 minutes to
come up with a plan
together and write it
down.
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU
WANT….NOW TRY TO GET IT
WHAT
REALLY
HAPPENED?
SO THEN….
1. Within its sphere of influence, each
power agreed not to interfere with any
existing business interests or port
treaties of other powers.
2. Existing Chinese tariffs would remain
unchanged in all spheres of influence
and would be collected by the Chinese
government.
3. Within each sphere of influence, harbor
fees and railroad charges would be the
same for all countries, giving no special
rates to the countries whose businesses
owned and operated the harbors and
railroads.
OPEN DOOR POLICY
War is Brewing…
NEXT TIME…