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PROS AND CONS TO

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

PROS CONS

THE NAVY AND

AMERICAN

INFLUENCE

ABROAD

IMPERIALISM CONTINUES AT SEA

AMERICA’S “ADULTHOOD”

Frederick Jackson

Turner’s Frontier Thesis

The Frontier

• alleviated overpopulation

• provided cheap or free

land

• offered new economic

opportunities

Many asked:

What should be done

when the West is gone?

A “NEW” FRONTIER

Alfred Thayer Mahan wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783

• prosperous people of the past had built large fleets for trade

• a Navy to protect merchant ships and defend trade with other countries is crucial for development

Mahan’s book was a best seller and built public support for a Navy. Two senators, Lodge and Beveridge, pushed the cause in the Senate.

By the 1890’s, business leaders wanted new markets overseas and many thought it was America’s destiny to dominate the world.

BUILDING A

MODERN NAVY

MAHAN

America sought out new places to trade, and the Pacific offered a great market.

Japan resisted trade with America, but gave in after Commodore Matthew Perry's naval expedition in 1853.

THIS INLUENCED JAPAN. By the 1890’s Japan had a Navy and were building their own empire in Asia.

AMERICAN EXPANSION

IN THE PACIFIC

Pan-Americanism

“The idea that the United

States and Latin America

should work together”

(Appleby 2008, page 495)

DIPLOMACY IN

LATIN AMERICAN

SPHERES

OF

INFLUENCE

“AN AREA WHERE A FOREIGN NATION CONTROLS

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SUCH AS RAILROAD

CONSTRUCTION AND MINING” (APPLEBY

2008, PAGE 504)

It’s time to role play!

• You’re going to be put in groups.

• Each person in your group will have a

different country to play.

• LISTEN POLITELY

• TOLERATE and COMPROMISE

• You will have questions to answer on

your own first and a reflection to

complete at the end of class.

• Each member of your group will fill out

a worksheet for a grade.

• Be polite, flexible, and malleable in

thought. You have a role to play, but

compromise is important!

YOU RECEIVED A LETTER

HAY

IT’S TIME FOR A

MEETING OF THE MINDS!

I will monitor the time and

let you know when to

move on.

• About 1 minute for

each country to

present it points and

goals.

• About 3 minutes to

come up with a plan

together and write it

down.

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU

WANT….NOW TRY TO GET IT

WHAT

REALLY

HAPPENED?

SO THEN….

1. Within its sphere of influence, each

power agreed not to interfere with any

existing business interests or port

treaties of other powers.

2. Existing Chinese tariffs would remain

unchanged in all spheres of influence

and would be collected by the Chinese

government.

3. Within each sphere of influence, harbor

fees and railroad charges would be the

same for all countries, giving no special

rates to the countries whose businesses

owned and operated the harbors and

railroads.

OPEN DOOR POLICY

War is Brewing…

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