1. Continent of Hanrahania
What was fair/unfair about the game?
What was your strategy in rock, paper, scissors?
How did you choose which areas to claim?
What resources would you consider the most valuable? Why?
What advantages/disadvantages come from the land you claimed?

2. From Sea to shining sea… and beyond!
American Imperialism
From Sea to shining sea… and beyond!

4. What is Imperialism?
Imperialism: The economic and political control of a weaker nation by a stronger nation.

5. Factors fueling American imperialism:
America Turns Outward
Factors fueling American imperialism:
Economic expansion – new markets and investment opportunities
Social Darwinism and Anglo-Saxonism – looking to improve the lives of “heathens”
Competition with industrialized nations – wanted to prove our strength

6. SOCIAL DARWINISM and ANGLO-SAXONISM
WASPs
Social Darwinism: The belief that society can be improved through “survival of the fittest”
Anglo-Saxonism: The idea that English-speaking nations had superior character, ideas, and systems of government, and were destined to rule.
Other
Europeans
Asians and
Latinos
Native Americans
Africans

7. Pros and Cons of Imperialism
Increased economic opportunities
Improved global status
New materials/goods
Expansion of democracy
Expensive – militarily and economically
Negative international opinion of the US
Destruction of traditional cultures

8. I this! I this!
Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power on History – said that they key to a nation’s power is through its naval power.
Mark Twain – The War Prayer; A scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic (jingoism) and religious fervor as motivations for war.

9. The White Man’s Burden Rudyard Kipling
Take up the White Man's burden-- Send forth the best ye breed-- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild-- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

10. White Man’s Burden
White Man’s Burden: A belief that white people have an obligation to rule over, and impose their culture upon people from other ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
Allowed supporters to justify imperialism as a noble enterprise
The slogan was placed on products that aimed to promote cleanliness, purity, health, and wealth.

11. America In the Pacific

12. Expansion in the Pacific
Commodore Matthew C. Perry led four American warships to Japan to convince them to trade with the US
Japan was impressed by the technology and firepower
Began updating their own technology to compete with the West
America would go on to annex a number of islands in the Pacific
Annex: to incorporate a territory into the domain of a city, country, or state.

13. China

14. The Forbidden City

15. Growing Issues in China
European colonization
Opium Wars
Boxer Rebellion

17. The Open Door Policy: Stated that all European nations, and the United States, could trade freely with China.
The United States long demanded an Open Door Policy for trading in China, in order to prevent other powers from carving up China among them. But France, Russia, Britain, and Japan bit off pieces for themselves by annexation or by establishing spheres of influence, where they exercised economic privileges.
As its rivals made gains, the United States feared it would be excluded from all trade in China.
The Open Door Policy: Stated that all European nations, and the United States, could trade freely with China.

18. Aloha!
Welcome to Hawai’i

19. The Road to Hana Old Hawaii
King Kamehameha unified the Hawaiian Islands in 1810

20. Europeans Discover Hawai’i
Captain James Cook makes contact with the Hawaiian Islands in 1778
European businessmen quickly took advantage of the fertile soil and set up large plantations of sugarcane, pineapples, etc.

21. The Fight for Hawai’i Queen Lili’uokalani: The last monarch of Hawai’I
Intense rivalry between white businessmen who dominated the economy and natives who still maintained government power
The Committee of Safety: An organization created by prominent American annexationists looking to “protect their business interests.”
Created a provisional government and militia
The Queen refused to arrest the conspirators, because she felt that it would result in violence.

22. The Committee of Safety made their move
Called the US Marines to “protect Americans” on the island
Their militia took over government buildings and offices. 
The Queen was placed under house arrest
Lili’uokalani sent a desperate plea to Congress, but was forced to surrender a few weeks later.
Grover Cleveland refused to annexation because of the way it had been taken
McKinley would annex Hawaii in 1898

23. The Cost of Annexation
The Hula
Surfing

24. The White? Man’s Burden