1. Imperialism Review For Chapter 23 Please have out: Pen or Pencil
Review Sheet

2. What Is Foreign Policy?
How a nation deals with other countries around the world

3. (extending a nation’s borders)
Imperialism
Isolationism
Having little to do with the political affairs of other nations
Before 1865
Powerful countries seeking to control weaker nations
Expansionism
(extending a nation’s borders)

4. Causes of Imperialism
Industrial nations wanted raw materials from Africa and Asia
They wanted the people of these regions to buy goods made in our factories (new markets)
Americans felt they had a duty to spread ideas and culture to uncivilized areas

5. Causes of Imperialism, con’t
A nation might take over an area to keep a rival nation from gaining it
More land = more power
Nations were competing for trading rights

6. Examples of Imperialism
Japan
Alaska
Hawaii
China
Cuba
Philippines
Panama

7. Examples of Imperialism - Japan
1600’s – Japan ended trade
U.S. wanted trade, refueling, help for shipwrecked sailors
1854 Commodore Matthew Perry bullies Japan with warships = Treaty of Kanagawa
Result: opened up trade, Japan realized the power of industrialized nations so they began to industrialize

8. Examples of Imperialism - Alaska
1867
Purchased in 1867 from Russia (2 cents/acre)
Added 20% to the size of the United States
“Seward’s Folly”

9. Examples of Imperialism - Hawaii
Mid 1800s – American sugar plantations
Year long growing season = profits
Planters gained power over the economy, and eventually the government
1893 – bloodless revolt against the queen
Annexed in 1900 as a territory (statehood in 1959)

10. Examples of Imperialism - China
Used to be strong, but didn’t industrialize
European nations carved up China created Spheres of Influence (seaport areas of trade)
U.S. instituted an Open Door Policy so nations could trade in other nation’s spheres of influence (protect U.S. trading rights w/ China)
Chinese resented us….Boxer Rebellion

11. Spanish American War - Causes
Late 1800s – Spain controlled Cuba
Cuba wanted independence and the Spanish continued to suppress (put down) the independence movement
American newspapers (yellow journalists) sensationalized the stories of what was happening to the Cuban rebels, which angered Americans calling for war with Spain
“You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war”

12. Spanish American War - causes
U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana harbor outside of Cuba
Spain is blamed for exploding the Maine and yellow journalists call for U.S. to declare war
U.S. declares war on Spain
“A Splendid Little War” – only lasted 4 months, most casualties were from disease and bad food

13. Spanish American War - Results
Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders becomes a national hero
U.S. acquired overseas territories
Platt Amendment = naval bases in Cuba/Pacific
Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam
Puerto Rico became a U.S. Protectorate (a nation who’s independence is limited by the more powerful country)

14. Big Stick Foreign Policy in Latin America
Monroe Doctrine – Warned other nations to stay out of the Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine – The United States has the right to intervene militarily in Latin America (Theodore Roosevelt)
Dollar Diplomacy – building strong economic ties to Latin America
Moral Diplomacy – building strong moral ties to Latin America (spreading peace and democracy)

15. Why were these Big Stick policies created??
So……..
Why were these Big Stick policies created??
to protect its investments and interest in Latin America and increase power

16. Panama Canal

17. Panama Canal President Theodore Roosevelt 1903 – 1912
Reduced the cost of shipping and the length of time to move the U.S. naval fleet of ships from one coast to another
Major Problem: disease and the tropical climate (geography)
Allowed ships to pass from the Atlantic to Pacific in a shorter amount of time

18. Effects of U.S. Imperialism
U.S. – a strong navy
U.S. is willing to send troops to protect those areas
U.S. rules lands in the Caribbean and Pacific
Raw materials, new markets, and U.S. trade expands – make the U.S. an economic power

19. What is the main idea of the cartoon?

20. What cause of the war is Hearst referring to with this quote?
"...You furnish the pictures; I'll furnish the war.“
– William Randolph Hearst
What cause of the war is Hearst
referring to with this quote?

21. What is the main idea of these reading passages?
“But today we are raising more than we can consume. Today we are making more than we can use. Today our industrial society is congested; there are more workers than there is work; there is more capital than there is investment. We do not need more money- we need more circulation, more employment. Therefore, we must find new markets for our produce, new occupation for our capital, new work for our labor…”
-Senator Albert J. Beveridge, 1898
What is the main idea of these reading passages?
Do they want the same thing?

22. What is the main idea of these reading passages?
“Chronic wrongdoing…may…ultimately
require intervention by some civilized nation,
…adherence…to the Monroe Doctrine may
force the United States…to the exercise of an
international police power.”
-Theodore Roosevelt, 1904
What is the main idea of these reading passages?

27. Intervention