1. (1890-1914) United States Expansionism in Latin America & Asia
Simultaneous
With Progressivism

2. Naval Bases around the world to support U.S. interests abroad
Motivations for
U.S. Imperialism
Military
Naval Bases around the world to support U.S. interests abroad
Alfred T. Mahan

3. Social
“White Man’s Burden”
Extension
of Social Darwinism
philosophy

4. Expansionist foreign policy an extension of expanding industrial
Economic
“The Philippines are ours forever.... And just beyond the Philippines are China’s illimitable (limitless) markets. We will not retreat from either. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee under God, of the civilization of the world. The Pacific is our ocean... . Where shall we turn for consumers of our surplus? Geography answers the question. China is our natural customer...No land in America surpasses in fertility the plains and valleys of Luzon. Rice and coffee, sugar and coconuts, hemp and tobacco...The wood of the Philippines can supply the furniture of the world for a century to come...I have a nugget of pure gold picked up in its present form on the banks of a Philippine creek....”
Senator Albert J. Beveridge (Republican – Ohio) 1901.
Raw materials &
Foreign Markets
Expansionist foreign policy
an extension of expanding industrial
US economy of period

5. A push to compete with “old world” powers for domination
Diplomatic
A push to compete with “old world” powers for domination

6. Anti- Imperialist League
Many Americans (famous examples include Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Gompers) argue overseas expansion is contradictory to the ideas of democracy and freedom, and will cause the U.S. to be more militaristic
Anti- Imperialist League

7. William McKinley First blatantly “Imperialist” Foreign Policy
( )
First
blatantly
“Imperialist”
Foreign
Policy
Hawaii
The Philippines

8. TR’s “Big Stick” Diplomacy (1901-1909)
Panama Canal

9. Roosevelt
Corollary
to the
Monroe
Doctrine

10. Taft’s
“Dollar
Diplomacy”
( )

11. WW’s “Moral or Missionary Diplomacy”
( )