WHAT WAS THE MEANS AND MOTIVE OF US IMPERIAL ACQUISITIONS? American Imperial Acquisitions

Review Money, money, and more money  US business can become rich and wealthy through trade Industrialization created too many goods  Food, steel, manufactured items  Somebody needs to buy it!  Now we need to take over places to get our stuff to market! Religion  Bring Christianity to the “savages” White man’s burden  Education, culture, religion, society, all things Western

Alfred T Mahan and the Theory of Sea Power Those with a better navy will be able to trade more We need to take over places for  Our navy to refuel  To protect trade routes  To sell people our “stuff”  So that others don’t get there first

Rest stops to China

Hawaii In 1893 business leaders get rid of the Queen Lili’uokalani Sugar! Naval Base Pearl Harbor

Panama Instead of going around S. America, build a canal in the middle of Panama Save 8,000 miles of travel! US Navy can use, and trading boats Was owned by Columbia US organizes Panamanians to have revolution, and separate  US asks for canal in return

Spanish American War 1898 Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines owned by Spain We steal them in quick war, why?  Guantanamo Bay, Manila Bay

Guatemala, Central America Profit, control, nobody else can get it, secure trade routes  Keep Europeans out of our backyard Controlled through economic imperialism  Bananas become #1 industry there  United Fruit Co is American, become Chiquita Banana  Had a monopoly

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