1. The Rise of the United States as a World Power
Imperialism
The Rise of the United States as a World Power

2. What is Imperialism?
Imperialism- the practice of extending a nation’s power by gaining territories for a colonial empire
European Colonies had been doing it for years

3. Why Imperialism Economic Interests Military Needs Expansion
Nationalism
Cultural Superiority

4. Economic Interests New customers New places of investments
Resources & Materials

5. Military Needs
Bases for naval ships
Military strategies
Recruitment

6. Expansion
Increasing borders
Expansion of Power
World Control

7. Nationalism Love of one’s nation
Expansion= national power and prestige
Our country is the best

8. Cultural Superiority Europeans & Americans felt superior
Africa, Asia, & Latin America less industrialized
Western Society needed to “civilize” world
Spread religion

9. Areas of Colonization
Africa
Asia
Latin America
Middle East

10. Look at the US, look at Africa, Look at the U.K.

11. So with all this exploration came colonies claimed by the explores
So with all this exploration came colonies claimed by the explores. Spain instituted ways to control these areas with Viceroyalties: direct representatives from the crown, in charge of whole provinces. Spain also created the Ecnomienda system, where a landowner had the right to control the people of a certain area. In the Spanish colonies a new social order was created where Peninsulares where the top and Africans and Indians were on the bottom. Peninusulares were people born in Europe. Creoles were next in line, people who were of European decent born in the Americas. Then there were Mestizos, people of European and Indian decent, and Molotos European African decent and then Africans and Indians. Less racism in Spanish colonies then in English, because English rarely mixed in comparison to Spanish and Portuguese colonies. Spain also started to send missionaries to the new world, creating missions, a plantation centered around a church. Became very popular in the California area. Spain eventually started to loose its dominance in the new world after it lost its Spanish Armada in a war against the English in Which leads us to the American colonies.
Student Assignments: Jamestown(Virginia), Plymouth Colony, (New England??), Massachusetts Bay Colony, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Carolina and Pennsylvania, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland,

21. Imperialism Today? Is there still imperialism today?
What examples can you think of?