1. Intro to and Reasons for US Expansion
Unit 3: Emergence of Americas in Global Affairs pre-WWI
Intro to and Reasons for US Expansion

2. Intro/Background US Post Civil War/Reconstruction Immigration
Economical Growth/IR
Downsides of Progress
Foreign Policy
Imperialism

5. Ideological Reasons for Expansion
Latin America 1820s
US fears
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Significance
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
Manifest Destiny 2.0

8. Expansion for Moral Duty
Darwin/Natural Selection
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
John Fiske
Josiah Strong/Christianity
European Countries
White Man’s Burden

11. Expansion as Necessity
Population Growth
Economic/Military Might (Alfred Thayer Mahan)
Ships
Control of Waterways

12. Economic Reasons Markets Beyond North America Markets and Resources
Gold Standard
US Economic situation
1893 Recession

13. Political Reasons Samoan Islands (protectorate) Situation with Hawaii
Sugar Plantations
Military Advantage
Tariff Elimination
Use of Pearl Harbor
Reintroduction of Tariff
Overthrow of Queen
Annexation in 1898

16. Venezuela Venezuela/British Guiana Boundary Dispute Gold
British Response
US Reaction
US Second Response
Resolution-US wins