Definitions
What does the word "annex" mean?
To add something
This is the belief that European and American civilization is superior to the civilization of the rest of the world, and that non-white peoples need the help of whites to be successful.
White Man's Burden
True or False: A protectorate is a country whose affairs are partially controlled by a stronger power.
True
This country rebelled against Spain in 1895 and became the area of focus during the Spanish-American War.
Cuba
Imperialist or Anti-Imperialist? "We hold that the policy known as imperialism is hostile to liberty and tends toward militarism, an evil from which it has been our glory to be free. We regret that it has become necessary in the land of Washington and Lincoln to reaffirm that all men, whatever race or color, are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Anti-Imperialist
This was a type of journalism based on sensationalizing and exaggerating the news.
Yellow Journalism
This motivation for imperialism led the United States to add army and naval bases in order to prevent other countries from increasing sphere of influence.
Military Interests
This land was annexed in 1898 by the US government after planters (rich farmers) revolted against their queen.
Hawaii
What year was the Spanish-American War?
1898
Imperialist or Anti-Imperialist? “In the interests of our commerce and of our fullest development, we should build the Nicaragua Canal, and for the protection of that canal and for the sake of our commercial supremacy (influence in economics and trade) in the Pacific we should control the Hawaiian Islands and maintain our influence in Samoa."
Imperialist
This said that the US could act as a "policeman" and intervene in European disputes with Latin American countries if US national interest was involved.
The Roosevelt Corollary
What is one economic advantage did the US hope to gain through imperialism?
Raw Materials or New Markets
Secretary of State William Seward purchased this land from Russia 1867.
Alaska
True or False: The US went to war against Spain because Spain invaded Florida.
False: They wanted to ensure the safety of U.S. business interests in Cuba
Imperialist or Anti-Imperialist? "And just beyond the Philippines are China’s illimitable (limitless) markets. We will not retreat from them either. We will not repudiate (deny) our duty in the archipelago (part of the land in Eastern hemisphere). We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world."
Imperialist
What is the term that matches this definition? The US warned European nations that they could not set up colonies or interfere in Latin American problems anymore AND will not involve itself in European affairs militarily or politically.
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
What was one thing the US wanted to spread to other countries through its imperialism?
1. Government (Democracy)
2. Religion (Christianity)
What was one challenge the US faced when it was building the Panama Canal?
1. Getting the land
2. Difficult to dig the canal
3. Many people died from diseases like malaria
What was the name of the treaty that ended the war.
The Treaty of Paris
Imperialist or Anti-Imperialist? "The Philipines are not continental, not contiguous to our present domain, but beyond seas, the Philippines many thousand miles distant from our coast. They are all situated in the tropics, where people of the northern races, such as Anglo-Saxons, or generally speaking, people of Germanic blood, have never migrated in mass to stay, and they are more or less densely populated…"
Anti-Imperialist
Define imperialism.
A policy in which stronger nations control weaker territories economically, politically, and/or militarily.
List the three main reasons for American imperialism.
1. Economic Interests
2. Military Interests
3. Belief in Cultural Superiority
List three territories the US acquired from the Treaty of Paris (1898).
Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Cuba
What specific event led the United States to declare war on Spain?
The explosion of the USS Maine
Imperialist or Anti-Imperialist? "It is a glorious history our God has bestowed upon His chosen people; a history heroic with faith in our mission and our future; a history of statesmen who flung the boundaries of the Republic out into unexplored lands and savage wilderness; a history of soldiers who carried the flag across blazing deserts and through the ranks of hostile mountains, even to the gates of sunset; a history of a multiplying people who overran a continent in half a century; a history of prophets who saw the consequences of evils inherited from the past and of martyrs who died to save us from them; a history divinely logical, in the process of whose tremendous reasoning we find ourselves today."
Imperialist