1. Mr. Wilson 10th Grade U.S. History
Imperialism
Mr. Wilson
10th Grade U.S. History

2. What is imperialism?
Give me some examples of early imperialist countries.

4. Imperialism Extension of a nation’s power and control over other lands
Britain, France, Belgium, Germany and Japan
European Nations gained more than 20% of land on Earth

6. Why?
Economy: Looked to other nations for new customers and new places to invest
Africa, Asia, and Latin America also had raw materials for the Industrial Factories

8. Military: Industrialized countries created strong navies to defend shores and protect trading interests
Needed bases in strategic places

10. Nationalism: Territorial conquests enhanced a nation’s power and prestige
Cultural Superiority: “White Man’s Burden”
Africa, Asia, and L.A. had less industry and urban development and were “backward” nations

11. Take up the white man’s burden Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captive’s need; To wait, in heavy harness, On fluttered folk ad wild— Your new-caught sullen people, Half devil and half child.

13. “The two great needs of mankind…are, first, a pure, spiritual, Christianity, and second, civil liberty, past, have contributed most to the elevation of the human race…It follows, then, that the Anglo-Saxon, as the great representative of these two ideas…is divinely commissioned to be, in a peculiar sense, his brother’s keeper”

18. Political Motivations
New technologies like railroad, steamship, vaccines, telegraph and rifle made it possible to go deep into Africa and Asia
Berlin Conference: Split up Africa to preserve “Balance of Power”

21. Define Imperialism. Give me at least 3 different motivations with specific examples of why different countries engaged in imperialism in the late 19th, and early 20th centuries.
3.8 format

22. Scramble for Territory
European Powers had carved up Africa and Asia
Americans believed it was time for U.S. to claim its territory abroad
Mid-1800s: Manifest Destiny

25. China
Asia: In 1890s, China, weakened by years of warfare, looked as if it might be partitioned into spheres of influence by England, Japan, Germany, France, and Russia

26. Spheres of Influence
A geographical area where an outside nation exerts special economic or political control
All of previous nations had this in China

27. Secretary of State John Hay wrote notes calling for “open door” policy that would ensure trade access to all maintain semblance of Chinese sovereignty
1900 announced this as policy

29. Goal was to give all nations equal trading rights to China
Open Door Policy
Goal was to give all nations equal trading rights to China
“We ask no favors, we only ask that we shall be admitted to that great market upon the same terms with the rest of the world”

32. Monroe Doctrine
Western Hemisphere was an “American Sphere of Influence” and warned European powers to keep their hands off or risk war

34. Taking Control of Hawaii
Hawaii was a good spot for coaling stations and naval bases for ships traveling to and from Asia
Early contact included traders and Christian missionaries

35. Hawaiian League formed to overthrow monarch and establish democracy in Hawaii under American Control
All motivated by the power of the American Sugar Companies in the Territory

36. Annexation
President William McKinley favored annexation and Congress approved in 1898
Became the 50th state in 1959

40. Russo-Japanese War
Roosevelt negotiated a peace treaty and won the Nobel Peace Prize
Japan wanted territory, needed natural resources and balance U.S. power in pacific