1. Imperialism #1: More Power to US!
What is imperialism?
Objectives: 1. What is imperialism? 2. What motived it? 3. Describe the relationship between US and Hawaii

2. Imperialism
Strong country takes over another country

3. Does a country ever have the right to take over another country?

4. Strong country creates an empire – a nation that takes over other nations
Controlled country becomes a colony

5. EX: Spain colonized parts of North and nearly all of South America
Language?
Religion?

6. Is this imperialism? A.

7. B.

8. C.

9. Motives behind imperialism
Economic Motives
Natural Resources (cotton, sugar, etc) – needed to make more goods
Place to sell goods
Make $$$
Everyone else was doing it!
Manifest destiny

10. 2. Political Motives Take over country in a strategic location
Hawaii – middle of the Pacific – good place to refuel a boat
Build Pearl Harbor (navy base)
B. Power!

11. 3. Ideological (Beliefs) Motives
Racism: belief that your ethnic group is superior to another’s (doing that country a favor by taking them over!)
Social Darwinism
Spread Christianity

12. Alaska
Purchased in 1867 from Russia for $7.2 million (2 cents an acre!)

13. Hawaii Americans grew sugar there by late 1800s
US put a tax on foreign sugar --- Hawaii was a foreign country
Dole wanted to annex (take over) HI so didn’t have to pay tax

14. Overthrow the Queen, replace her with an American ruler, and then made it an American territory
What motive of imperialism is at work in Hawaii? Economic, political, or ideological?

15. What are 3 motives behind imperialism?