1. FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA… AND BEYOND! American Imperialism

3. Influences Towards Imperialism Alaska Purchase (Seward’s Folly) Missionaries and the Social Gospel Social Darwinism Need for new markets

4. Influences towards Imperialism Social Darwinism Anglo-Saxonism WASPs Other Europeans Latinos Asians Native Americans Africans

5. Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.

6. White Man’s Burden Justification for imperialism Obligation to lesser nations Effective advertisement

7. I this! Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan – The Influence of Sea Power on History Mark Twain – The War Prayer

8. Pros Cons Increased economic opportunities Improved global status New materials/goods Expansion of democracy Expensive – militarily and economically Negative impact on American labor/business Negative international opinion of the US Destruction of traditional cultures Pros and Cons of Imperialism

9. LATIN AMERICA AND THE PACIFIC Early Foreign Forays

10. Expansion in the Pacific Treaty of Kanagawa (1858)  Commodore Matthew C. Perry Annexation  Samoa  Midway Island  Pacific islands

11. Early Foreign Forays “Big Sister” policy Pan-American Conference (1889) Monroe Doctrine as justification

12. Monroe Doctrine 1823 -Western Hemisphere

13. Welcome to Hawai’i

15. The Last Monarch: Queen Lili'uokalani Queen Lili’oukalani Committee of Safety Surrender and abdication  Sanford Dole Annexed in 1898

16. Pitfalls of Anglo-Saxonism

19. Boxer Rebellion “Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists” (AKA: Boxers)  Anti-foreign  Anti-Christian Violent aftermath

21. Open Door Policy Increase influence in China  Foreign spheres of influence Open Door Policy (1900)  SoS John Hay Granted consent “in principle”