1. Imperialism: American Style
U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Century

2. Essential Question:
How and why did the United States take a more active role in world affairs?

4. Imperialism
Expansion by acquiring ownership /control over colonial areas/protectorates for economic, military, religious, or nationalist reasons.

5. Reasons for… Invest surplus capital Obtain raw materials
½ Billion by 1900
Obtain raw materials
Control Export Markets
Establish naval and military bases
Send missionaries to make converts
Compete for world power

6. Philosophy of American Imperialism
Monroe Doctrine, 1823
Manifest Destiny, 1840’s
Political Darwinism
Racial Superiority
Spread of Democracy
Roosevelt Corollary—hemisphere policemen
Building World Class Navy

7. Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Book by Alfred T. Mahan
President of Naval War College, 1885
Thesis—the great imperial nations of the past had gained their power & prestige through naval supremacy
1880 fleet—142 wooden vessels
1900 fleet—3rd in world

8. U.S. Territorial Acquisitions
Alaska, 1867—Seward’s Ice Box
Midway Islands, 1867
American Samoa, 1878
Annexation of Hawaii,
Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, 1878
Queen Liliuokalani
Dole Revolution
Republic then annexation

9. U.S. Foreign Policy Perry Ends Japanese Isolationism, 1853
Hay’s Open Door Policy with China, 1898
Spanish American War, 1898
T.R.’s Big Stick Diplomacy

10. U.S. Instigated Revolt in Panama, 1904
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy in L.A, 1909
Completion of Panama Canal, 1914