1. America Expands Overseas
The United States began to abandon its Isolationist foreign policy created by Monroe Doctrine

2. Reasons For Expansion
US companies needed new markets to sell their products
US wanted to create an overseas empire

3. Creating An International Market

4. True “Global Economy”
Growth in international trade that occurred from the late 1800s to World War I
Led by US

5. Open Door Policy
Secretary of State John Hay policy that would give all nations equal trading rights in China

6. Open Door Policy
Urged all foreigners to obey Chinese laws and customs

7. Dollar diplomacy
President Taft urged American banks and businesses to invest in Latin America.

8. Dollar diplomacy
He promised that the US military would step in if political unrest threatened their investments.

9. US Expansion – Latin America

10. Spanish-American War 1898-1900
US went to war with Spain for control of Cuba
War easily won by US

11. Results of Spanish-American War
Cuba became a free independent nation with alliances to US
US annexed Puerto Rico, Philippines, and Guam (Asia) from Spain

12. Panama Canal
President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a shorter route around the world
“Encouraged” Panama’s independence from Colombia

13. Panama Canal Made a deal to build a canal through Panama
Cut travel time around South America in half

16. US Expansion – Asia & Pacific

17. Alaska Bought from Russia in 1867 Didn’t become a state until 1959
$0.02 an acre; nation called it “Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox”
Discovery of gold in 1898
Didn’t become a state until 1959

18. Acquisition of Hawaii
US needed a re-fueling station and military base in the Pacific Ocean
Wanted to protect trading ships in Pacific

19. Acquisition of Hawaii
US Supported a revolution to get rid of Hawaiian Monarchy
US annexed Hawaii in 1898

20. Purpose Of Expansionism
US wanted to sell all their technology and products around the world
US wanted to establish an empire in the Western Hemisphere