1. American Imperialization
Central Focus:
Essential Standards:
USH.H.6: Understand how and why the role of the United States in the world has changed over time.
USH.H.6.1: Explain how national economic and political interests helped set the directed of United States foreign policy since Reconstruction (e.g., new markets, isolationism, neutrality, containment, homeland security, etc…).
USH.H.6.2: Explain the reasons for United States involvement in global wars and influence each involvement had on international affairs (e.g., Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraqi War, etc…).

2. Factors which influenced a desire to expand
Imperialism: a belief in which the United States needed to look beyond its own borders to acquire overseas colonies.

3. Factors which influenced a desire to expand
II. Economic
1. Increase trade with varying overseas markets.
2. Mercantilism: an economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.
3. Thirst for new markets

4. Factors which influenced a desire to expand
II. Military
1. Desire for a global military presence
2. Alfred T. Mahan: US Navy. Urged US leaders to build up naval forces
a. Great White Fleet- 9 steel hulled ships

5. Factors which influenced a desire to expand
III. Belief in cultural superiority
1. Social Darwinism combined with racial superiority
2. Spread Christianity to “inferior cultures”

6. US Acquires Alaska 1. Who wants to purchase Alaska territory?
2. Who was the territory purchased from?
3. Why did he want to purchase the land?
4. Did he have unanimous support for his purchase?
5. What was the purchase nicknamed?

7. US Takes Hawaii
a. Hawaii used as a stopping point for American Merchants since 1700s
b. Missionaries founded Christian schools on the Islands in the 1820
i. Sugar planters sold most of crop to US
c. Sugar Plantation owners import laborers
i Japan
ii. Portugal
iii. China

8. US Takes Hawaii
How might these changes affected the Politics in Hawaii?

9. US Takes Hawaii a. White planters sold sugar to US DUTY FREE
b. McKinley Tariff of 1890 made Hawaiian sugar duty nonexistent
i Created competition
ii White planters ask for annexation

10. US Takes Hawaii a. Pearl Harbor: United States’ best naval port
i Refueling station for American ships
ii US pressures Hawaii to build

11. US Takes Hawaii a. Monarchy ends
i Under King Kalakaua, wealthy land owners only people allowed to vote
1. Strong armed by white business leaders
ii Queen Liliuokalani
1. “Hawaii for Hawaiians”
2. Wants to end property qualifications to vote
a. Ambassador Stevens organizes a revolution and overthrows the Queen.
b. Provisional Government led by Sanford B. Dole

12. US Takes Hawaii
1.President Cleveland disapproves and orders Queen to be restored
a. Republic of Hawaii
b. Won’t annex unless HAWAIIANS want it
2. President McKinley favors annexation
a. Proclaims American territory 1898
b. Becomes State in 1959