1. Discussion:
What is imperialism?
U.S. Imperialism

2. Reasons for U.S. Expansion
Economic
Depression of 1893
Need for markets

3. “We are raising more than we can consume…We are making more than we can use. Therefore, we must find new markets for our produce, we must find new occupation for our capital, new work for our labor.”
Senator Albert J. Beveridge
(1899)

4. Reasons for U.S. Expansion
Social
Frederick Jackson Turner & the Frontier Thesis
John Fiske & Manifest Destiny
Josiah Strong & Social Darwinism
Rudyard Kipling & the “White Man’s Burden”

5. “The work the English race began when it colonized North America is destined to on until every land on the earth’s surface that is not already the seat of an old civilization shall become English in its language, in its religion, in its political habits and traditions, and to a predominant extent in the blood of its people.”
- John Fiske

6. Reasons for U.S. Expansion
Political
European Imperialism
Alfred Thayer Mahan & U.S. Naval dominance
Monroe Doctrine, 1823

7. Hawaii American missionaries Sugar plantations Queen Lili’uokalani
Stanford Dole

8. Cuba Jose Marti and Cuban nationalists fight for independence
Sinking of the battleship Maine, 1898
Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
Platt Amendment, 1901
Teddy Roosevelt & the Rough Riders

9. Philippines
Filipino nationalists and U.S. forces unite to defeat imperialist Spain
Treaty of Paris, 1898
Emilio Aguinaldo & the Filipino fight for independence
1902, end of war in the Philippines
Foothold in Asia

10. Philippines
“to educate the Filipinos and to uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them.”
- President McKinley

11. U.S. Empire, 1900

12. China “Spheres of influence”
Secretary of State John Hay & the Open Door
Boxer Rebellion

13. Anti-Imperialism Anti-Imperialist League, 1898 Membership was varied
Believed in the right of all
people to independence
and self-government

14. U.S. Imperialism Key Terms: Social Darwinism, “White Man’s Burden”,
Alfred Thayer Mahan, Queen Liliuoakalani, Platt Amendment,
Emilio Aguinaldo, Boxer Rebellion, Open Door