American Imperialism United States History Mrs OShea CHSAS
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American Imperialism United States History Mrs. O’Shea CHSAS
Review Look up the following in your notes: Manifest Destiny Social Darwinism -
Free Land Defined Americans • America had been in a process of constantly acquiring land. • Frontier = opportunity and required “rugged selfreliance” • 1893 – superintendent of Census announced the “frontier” as closed. • Now what? • 1890 s – acquiring new land separate from continental U. S. did not attract U. S. settlers.
Africa Becomes a Jigsaw Puzzle • Slave Trade outlawed • Now What? • European countries divide up and colonize Africa.
What about us? “The great nations are rapidly absorbing for their future expansion and their present defense all the waste places of the earth. As one of the great nations of the world, the United States must not fall out of the line of march. ” (Henry Cabot Lodge, 1895)
Do we want to be an empire? • European countries = Imperialist countries Imperialism – p. 584 stronger nations attempting to create an empire by dominating weaker nations • George Washington warned about getting too entangled in foreign affairs.
Directions: Use the word bank below to fill in the blanks. wars, expand, naval, lost, colonies, home, rights, assimilated, cowardly, financial Imperialists’ Point of View Anti-Imperialists’ Point of View The U. S. needs ________ to compete economically. Supporting an empire would be a ________ burden To be a world power, the U. S. needs _________ bases. The U. S. should concentration on solving problems at ______. It is the American destiny to ______ and duty to care. Nonwhite people cannot be ________ into American society. If the U. S. abandons a territory it will make it look _______. An empire would involve the U. S. in more ________. It is honorable to keep land that Americans ________ their lives to obtain. It is a violation of democratic principles to annex land not offer its people the same _______ as U. S. citizens.