WHAT WAS THE MEANS AND MOTIVE OF US IMPERIAL ACQUISITIONS?

American Imperial Acquisitions

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Money, money, and more money US business can become rich

and wealthy through tradeIndustrialization created too

many goods Food, steel, manufactured items Somebody needs to buy it! Now we need to take over

places to get our stuff to market!

Religion Bring Christianity to the

“savages”White man’s burden

Education, culture, religion, society, all things Western

Alfred T Mahan and the Theory of Sea Power

Those with a better navy will be able to trade more

We need to take over places for Our navy to refuel To protect trade routes

To sell people our “stuff” So that others don’t get

there first

Rest stops to China

Hawaii

• In 1893 business leaders get rid of the Queen Lili’uokalani

• Sugar!• Naval Base• Pearl Harbor

Panama

Instead of going around S. America, build a canal in the middle of Panama

Save 8,000 miles of travel!

US Navy can use, and trading boats

Was owned by Columbia

US organizes Panamanians to have revolution, and separate US asks for canal in

return

Spanish American War 1898

Puerto Rico, Cuba, Philippines owned by SpainWe steal them in quick war, why?

Guantanamo Bay, Manila Bay

Guatemala, Central America

Profit, control, nobody else can get it, secure trade routes Keep Europeans out of

our backyardControlled through

economic imperialism Bananas become #1

industry there United Fruit Co is

American, become Chiquita Banana

Had a monopoly

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