1. Pick up handouts

2. Imperialism Warm-up

3. Add SYNONYM above Imperialism Add ANTONYM below Imperialism

4. Reasons Economic: Natural resources New markets Political:
Nationalism
White Man’s Burden
Cultural:
Humanitarian/Religious
Military:
Land = Resources = money = power

5. Panama
Canal
Map page 363

6. Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914)
One of the most important military strategist on the 19th and early 20th centuries
Admiral in the Navy and a noted naval
historian
The Influence of Sea Power on History
Important relationship between a strong navy
and successful world commerce
Strongly influenced both Theodore
Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

7. Senator Beveridge’s Speech: March of the Flag
“ Today we are raising more than we can consume. Today we are making more than we can use…Therefore, we must find new markets for our produce, new occupation for our capital, new work for our labor….What does all this mean for every one of us? It means opportunity for all the glorious manhood of the republic…It means that the resources and the commerce of these immensely rick dominions will be increased.”

8. The Influence of Sea Powers Upon History
“Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea…”