1. United States History - Mrs. O'Shea and Ms. Curran
12/4/2018
American Imperialism
United States History
Mrs. O’Shea
CHSAS

2. Review Manifest Destiny - Social Darwinism -
Look up the following in your notes:
Manifest Destiny -
Social Darwinism -

3. Free Land Defined Americans
America had been in a process of constantly acquiring land.
Frontier = opportunity and required “rugged self-reliance”
1893 – superintendent of Census announced the “frontier” as closed.
Now what?
1890s – acquiring new land separate from continental U.S. did not attract U.S. settlers.

4. Africa Becomes a Jigsaw Puzzle
Slave Trade outlawed
Now What?
European countries divide up and colonize Africa.

5. 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)

6. 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.

7. Imperialists’ Point of View
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 ___________.
Nonwhite people cannot be ________________ into American society.
It is the American destiny to ___________ and duty to care.
If the U.S. abandons a territory it will make it look ______________.
An empire would involve the U.S. in more _______________.
It is a violation of democratic principles to annex land and not offer its people the same ______________ as U.S. citizens.
It is honorable to keep land that Americans ________________ their lives to obtain.