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Imperialism (1900)
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Flag of the Samoan Islands during 1900s
The American Samoa Age ( 1900- 1951 )
Politics & Cartoons
“ The Tug Of– Peace”
Major People
A U.S. naval officer, Commander Richard W. Meade, negotiated a treaty with the Samoan chieftains in 1872, receiving exclusive rights to a naval station at the harbor of Pago-Pago on the island of Tutuila.
Major People
Benjamin Franklin Tilley, best remembered as the first Acting-Governor of American Samoa, as well as the territory's first Naval governor.
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Cornelius Newton BlissU.S. Secretary of U.S. Department of Interior
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Albert Beveridge
The people “for” imperialism in Samoa
“Therefore, in this campaign, the question is larger than a party question. It is an American question. It is a world question. Shall the American people continue their march toward the commercial supremacy of the world? Shall free institutions broaden their blessed reign as the children of liberty wax in strength, until the empire of our principles is established over the hearts of all mankind?”—Albert Beveridge
Believed in using Samoa as a coaling station
The people “against” imperialism in Samoa
Charles Austin Beard
-"return to the more aggressive ways . . . to protect and advance the claims of American business enterprise."
Where was the American Samoa’s?
Near Australia
14 Degrees 18’ 21.75” S 170 Degrees 41’ 45.94” W elev 333ft
