1. UNIT #4 – BECOMING A WORLD POWER LESSON #1 – Imperialism (142-145)

2. LESSON #1 – Imperialism ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Why did America start pushing for an overseas empire?
What regions of the world did the USA come to control in the late 1800s to early 1900s?
VOCABULARY
Imperialism (142)
Protectorates (142)
Anglo-Saxonism (143)
Commodore Perry (144)
Treaty of Kanagawa (144)
Queen Liliuokalani (145)
Pan-Americanism (145)

3. Overseas Markets
What changed from 1865 to 1900?
Compare the amount of exports from How much was the increase?

4. Overseas Markets
Analyze what this graph is showing us.
What is it saying about our interaction with the rest of the world?

5. Overseas Markets
Why might a bigger navy be handy?
Without a big Navy, what might happen to our overseas investements?

6. Imperialism Definition: (142) Two types: (142) Colonies protectorates
a policy of extending a country's power through use of military force. It creates an unequal human and territorial relationship, based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance.
- a territory which is governed by another country. There is no independence for a colony, it is under the direct rule of another country.
- weak territories protected (and partly controlled by stronger ones). A country defends its protectorate, but it doesn't own it, and it doesn't meddle with the protectorate's internal affairs.

7. What’s happening here?
What does this suggest about how England and France see the rest of the world?
British King
French Emperor
That’s the world

8. What are all the guys with knives doing?
What’s happening here?
Chinese Emperor
He’s not happy)
What are all the guys with knives doing?
That’s a map of China
German King
Russian Czar
What is this suggesting about the relationship of China with England, Germany and Russia?
British Queen
Japanese Emperor

9. America Expanding
What gave England and the USA the right to conquer other lands and people?
They thought they were superior to other [less technological) regions, like Africa, Asia, and islands in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
Anglo-Saxonism –
Belief that English speaking nations were superior to other regions of the world, in…
Character
Creativity
Systems of government
What do you think motivated Americans to think in this racist way? Were they trying to justify some actions they were about to take?

10. The Spanish Empire

11. World Empires, around 1775
What do you think America will want to start doing, once they settle in and feel strong as a nation?
Why would America have a problem with this map of the world?

12. American Expansion
Step #1
Explain what’s being suggested here

13. American Expansion
Step #2
Explain what’s being suggested here

14. The new American Navy Americans started modernizing in early 1800s
Americans used Navy to expand influence into the Pacific islands
Example: Japan (144)
Explain what we did, and what we got. (Japan)
1853 – US Warships sailed into Tokyo Bay.
1854 – Japan signed TREATY OF KANAGAWA giving USA special trading rights with Japan

15. Taking Hawaii
Step #1 – American investors moved into Hawaii and set up sugar plantations
Step #2 – American government allowed American investors to not have to pay tariffs in America to sell their sugar
Step #3 – America convinced Hawaii to grant America the exclusive right to build a Navy Base at Pearl Harbor
Step #4 – American plantation owners in Hawaii forced Hawaiian king to accept a constitution that limited his power over them
Their goal: for USA to annex Hawaii
Step #5 – Planters overthrew Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani
Step #6 – USA annexed Hawaii in 1898
Was America justified in the way they took Hawaii?
England got control of China by forcing then to go to war. People died. What’s different about the way we got our protectorate?

16. Diplomacy in Latin America
United States wanted Latin America to purchase more products from USA
They’d been buying most of their goods from Europe
USA suggested PAN-AMERICANISM, which meant all the American nations should work more closely together.
Latin American nations felt like USA was forcing them into treaties.
They agreed ONLY to form an Organization of American States
Why would USA want Latin America to buy more from them, than from Europe?

17. Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) What did Adolph Plessy do? (135)
What “doctrine” did this lead to? (136)
He was a partially black man (1/8 black, and very light skinned) who took a seat on a train in a car designated just for whites
The doctrine was known as “separate but equal,” and led to legal discrimination in the South that lasted for more than 50 years