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FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA… AND BEYOND! American Imperialism
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Influences Towards Imperialism Alaska Purchase (Seward’s Folly) Missionaries and the Social Gospel Social Darwinism Need for new markets
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Influences towards Imperialism Social Darwinism Anglo-Saxonism WASPs Other Europeans Latinos Asians Native Americans Africans
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Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
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White Man’s Burden Justification for imperialism Obligation to lesser nations Effective advertisement
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I this! Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan – The Influence of Sea Power on History Mark Twain – The War Prayer
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Pros Cons Increased economic opportunities Improved global status New materials/goods Expansion of democracy Expensive – militarily and economically Negative impact on American labor/business Negative international opinion of the US Destruction of traditional cultures Pros and Cons of Imperialism
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LATIN AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC Early Foreign Forays
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Expansion in the Pacific Treaty of Kanagawa (1858) Commodore Matthew C. Perry Annexation Samoa Midway Island Pacific islands
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Early Foreign Forays “Big Sister” policy Pan-American Conference (1889) Monroe Doctrine as justification
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Monroe Doctrine 1823 -Western Hemisphere
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Welcome to Hawai’i
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The Last Monarch: Queen Lili'uokalani Queen Lili’oukalani Committee of Safety Surrender and abdication Sanford Dole Annexed in 1898
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Pitfalls of Anglo-Saxonism
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Boxer Rebellion “Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists” (AKA: Boxers) Anti-foreign Anti-Christian Violent aftermath
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Open Door Policy Increase influence in China Foreign spheres of influence Open Door Policy (1900) SoS John Hay Granted consent “in principle”
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