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United States Imperialism

Examine the factors that led to the United States taking an increasingly active role in

world affairs.

Roots of Imperialism

• Early history, American played small role in world affairs

• Changed when U.S. join the ranks of world’s power and began to acquire influence and territories outside continental borders

• U.S. was abandoning isolationism and emerging as a new power on the globe stage:– Age of Imperialism

Key Vocabulary

• Imperialism: the policy by which strong nations extend their political, military, and economic control over weaker territories.

• Spheres of influence: territories or nations dominated and controlled by outside power

• Mercantilism: belief that countries should keep a favorable balance of trade (exporting more than importing)

Cause of Imperialism

Power

Alfred T. Mahan

• 1840-1914• Naval officer and historian• Urged American leaders to

build a stronger navy and obtain naval bases in Cuba, Hawaii, Philippines

• U.S. should build a canal across Central America

Alfred Thayer Mahan’s Book

• The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

• Need to build a modern fleet– USS Maine

• Need a navy to defend shipping lanes

• Need strategically located bases where fleets could refuel– U.S. had the third largest navy

National Spirit and Imperialism• Manifest Destiny had been met—where would

America expand next?• Frederick Jackson Turner argued that expansion

helped form the American character. Therefore, the US needed to expand to keep the national spirit strong.– Overseas was the new frontier!

• Many big business leaders argued that imperialism was necessary for new markets.– Used the theory of Social Darwinism again to justify

taking advantage of the “less fit” nations.

National Spirit• Many people used racial superiority to justify

overseas expansion.– Josiah Strong, a minister, believed in Anglo-Saxon

superiority.• Idea that English speaking whites are biologically

superior to other races.

– Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The White Man’s Burden• Some view• showed the US obligation to “civilize” the “lesser

people” of the world.

White Man’s Burden

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

Take up the White Man's burden--In patience to abide,To veil the threat of terrorAnd check the show of pride;By open speech and simple,An hundred times made plain,To seek another's profitAnd work another's gain.

Take up the White Man's burden--The savage wars of peace--Fill full the mouth of Famine,And bid the sickness cease;And when your goal is nearest(The end for others sought)Watch sloth and heathen follyBring all your hope to nought.

Take up the White Man's burden--No iron rule of kings,But toil of serf and sweeper--The tale of common things.The ports ye shall not enter,The roads ye shall not tread,Go, make them with your livingAnd mark them with your dead.

White Man’s Burden con’t

Take up the White Man's burden,And reap his old reward--The blame of those ye betterThe hate of those ye guard--The cry of hosts ye humour(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--"Why brought ye us from bondage,Our loved Egyptian night?"

Take up the White Man's burden-Ye dare not stoop to less--Nor call too loud on FreedomTo cloak your weariness.By all ye will or whisper,By all ye leave or do,The silent sullen peoplesShall weigh your God and you.

Take up the White Man's burden!Have done with childish days--The lightly-proffered laurel,The easy ungrudged praise:Comes now, to search your manhoodThrough all the thankless years,Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,The judgment of your peers.