Intro to and Reasons for US Expansion Unit 3: Emergence of Americas in Global Affairs pre-WWI Intro to and Reasons for US Expansion
Intro/Background US Post Civil War/Reconstruction Immigration Economical Growth/IR Downsides of Progress Foreign Policy Imperialism
Ideological Reasons for Expansion Latin America 1820s US fears Monroe Doctrine (1823) Significance Roosevelt Corollary (1904) Manifest Destiny 2.0
Expansion for Moral Duty Darwin/Natural Selection Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer John Fiske Josiah Strong/Christianity European Countries White Man’s Burden
Expansion as Necessity Population Growth Economic/Military Might (Alfred Thayer Mahan) Ships Control of Waterways
Economic Reasons Markets Beyond North America Markets and Resources Gold Standard US Economic situation 1893 Recession
Political Reasons Samoan Islands (protectorate) Situation with Hawaii Sugar Plantations Military Advantage Tariff Elimination Use of Pearl Harbor Reintroduction of Tariff Overthrow of Queen Annexation in 1898
Venezuela Venezuela/British Guiana Boundary Dispute Gold British Response US Reaction US Second Response Resolution-US wins