1. AMERICAN IMPERIALISM “The dominant fact in life has been expansion.”
Fredrick Jackson Turner 1893

2. Extension of Manifest Destiny Increased production of goods
OVERSEAS EXPANSION
West is settled
Extension of Manifest Destiny
Increased production of goods

3. DEFINITION
policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

4. HAWAII 1898
Sugar plantations
Pearl Harbor
Statehood-1959

5. ALASKA 1867
Sewards Folly!

6. THE PHILIPPINES

7. Puerto Rico

8. CHINA 1900

9. ROOSEVELT “Speak softly and carry a big stick”
Roosevelt Corollary-1904
Force the United States to Act as an international police power

10. PANAMA CANAL 1914 Cut across Central America Reduce travel time
Purchased the claim in 1903
Hurts relations in Latin America

11. DIPLOMACY Dollar Diplomacy-using $ support countries
Missionary or Moral Diplomacy-moral “support”
Gunboat Diplomacy-use of the military

12. MEXICO 1911 Dictator Diaz was overthrown Wilson-”watchful waiting”
Occupation of Veracruz
Government of Carranza