Imperialism
The policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker territories.
What is Imperialism
This explorer's crew completed the first recorded-vessel crossing the Pacific ocean in 1520-1521
Who is Ferdinard Magellan?
This term describes a business strategy of entering a new market with existing products.
What is market development
Missionary used this specific 1845 concept to justify taking western lands as gods will.
What is Manifest Dynasty
He was a key American politician, lawyer, and statesman who served as Governor of New York, a U.S. Senator, and the U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
Who was William Seward?
This 19th-century belief held that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent and eventually beyond its shores.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Spanish friar and navigator discovered the vital return route across the pacific from Manila back to Mexico 1965
Who is Andres de Urdaneta?
When a local shop opens a second location in a neighboring city, it is executing this type of expansion.
What is geographic expansion?
This religious group, led west by Brigham Young to escape persecution, settled near the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
Who are the Mormons
Served from 1838 to 1842, promoting prison reform, education reform, and infrastructure improvements.
what is Governor of New York (William Seward)
Intense pride in one's country that led European nations to compete for global empires to prove their power.
What is nationalism?
This Spanish colonial trade monopoly used large armed ships to cross the Pacific between Manila and Acaplulo
What is the Manila galleon trade?
This growth strategy involves acquiring or merging with a direct competitor in the same industry.
What is horizontal integration?
This European nation built a network of religious outposts and presidios (forts) throughout California, Texas, and the Southwest before American expansion.
What is Spain?
It was the contemporary nickname deriding the purchase of Alaska. Critics and the public thought the frozen land was useless until valuable resources like gold were discovered there later.
What was "Seward's Folly"?
The economic transformation in Europe that drove nations to seek out new raw materials and foreign markets.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The non-coastal island group in Micronesia served as magellan's vital and sole provisioning stop in the vast pacific before reaching the Philippines?
What is Guam?
According to the Ansoff Matrix, launching completely new products into completely new markets is known by this high-risk strategy name.
What is diversification?
Protestant and Catholic missionary efforts were often tied to this 19th-century belief that Americans had a divine mission to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny
Was severely stabbed on the night of Lincoln's assassination by Lewis Powell, an accomplice of John Wilkes Booth, but recovered to continue his term.
William sewards survival
This 1862 law gave 160 acres of free public land to settlers who agreed to move west and farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Secretary of State John Hay, this policy aimed to secure equal trading rights for all nations within China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This financial benefit occurs when a company's per-unit fixed costs decrease as the scale of production increases during expansion.
What are economies of scale?
Famous Methodist missionary couple who traveled to the Pacific Northwest in 1836 and later established a mission among the Cayuse people.
Who were Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
Negotiated the acquisition of the Alaska territory from Russia in 1867 for $7.2 million, an event critics initially mocked as "Seward's Folly" before valuable resources were discovered
What is The Purchase of Alaska