1. America
Becomes
an Imperial
Power
3.1

2. AHI Reminders…
Monroe Doctrine (1823) – warning to European powers to stay out of western hemisphere
Manifest Destiny (1830s )
Mexican American War (1846)

3. World Hist. Reminders… International imperialism…
Africa was carved up by Europeans
only Liberia and Ethiopia remained independent

4. Why did America
join the imperialist
club at the end
of the 19c?

5. 1. Commercial/Business Interests
American Foreign Trade:
Raw goods
New markets
U. S. Foreign Investments:

6. 2. Military/Strategic Interests
Alfred T. Mahan  The Influence of Sea Power on History:

7. 3. Social Darwinist Thinking
The White Man’s Burden
The Hierarchy of Race

8. 4. Religious/Missionary Interests American Missionaries in China, 1905

9. 5. Closing the American Frontier

10. 6. Taking our place on a “world stage”

11. 7. Jingoism

12. Methods of Imperialism
1. Purchase new land
2. Use military/ economic power to take over new land (a “coup”)
3. Fight a war!

13. Alaska

14. Sec. of State William Seward
Purchase of Alaska, 1867
Sec. of State William Seward
$7.2 million

15. “Seward’s Folly”; “Seward’s Icebox”

16. Hawaii:
"Crossroads
of the
Pacific"

17. US Desire for Hawaii
Naval Port
Raw goods

18. Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s
U. S. Use of Hawaii
Early interactions = missionaries & businessmen
Hawaii becomes US Protectorate (through economic treaties)
1887 – Bayonet Constitution (strip Hawaiian monarchy of power)
Imiola Church – first built in the late 1820s

19. Hawaiian Queen Lili’uokalani “Hawaii for the Hawaiians!”
U.S. POV
“Hawaii for the Hawaiians!”
Reign: 1891

20. U. S. Overthrow of Hawaii
1893 – American businessmen backed an uprising against Queen Lili’uokalani.
Sanford Ballard Dole proclaims the Republic of Hawaii in 1894.
Republic of Hawaii –
Sanford Ballard Dole

21. To The Victor Belongs the Spoils
Hawaiian Annexation Ceremony, 1898
President William McKinley