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Name: _______________________________Period: ___________United States History and GovernmentDate: ____________Aim: How did America’s foreign policy from 1890-1920 reflect a change from earlier positions?Background: European countries had been involved in imperialism for centuries before the United States started to build a colonial empire. Countries wanted colonies for economic reasons, like the need for markets and raw materials, and to spread their political systems and Christianity. In the late 1800s people in the United States wanted to become more involved in imperialism.Task: As you read the following documents below, compile a list of possible explanations for the beginning of American imperialism in the 1890s and answer the discussion questions that follow.“Up to and including 1880, the country had a frontier of settlement, but at the present the unsettled area has been so broken into…that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.”-Superintendent of the Census 1890“God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-admiration. NO! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish systems where chaos reigns…He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.”-Senator Alfred Beveridge“Small states are of the past and have no future. . . . The great nations are rapidly absorbing for their future expansion and their present defense all the waste places of the earth. It is a movement which makes for civilization and the advancement of the race. As one of the great nations of the world, the United states must not fall out of the line of march.”- Senator Henry Cabot Lodge“Whether we will it or no, Americans must now look outward. The growing production of the country demands it. An increasing volume of public sentiment demands it. The position of the United States, between the two Old Worlds and the two great oceans, makes the same claim which will soon be strengthened by the creation of a new link joining the Atlantic and Pacific. The tendency will be maintained and increased by the growth of the European colonies in the Pacific, by the advancing civilization of Japan, and by the rapid peopling of our Pacific States…Three things are needful: First, protection from the chief harbors, by the fortifications and coast-defense ships…Secondly, naval force, the arm of offensive power, which alone enables a country to extend its influence outward. Thirdly, no foreign state should henceforth acquire a coaling station within three thousand miles of San Francisco.”-Alfred T. Mahan List of Reasons for ImperialismQuestions:1. What main reason does Senator Beveridge give to support US imperialism in the 1890s?2. What main reason does Senator Henry Cabot Lodge to support US imperialism in the 1890s?3. What social philosophy of the time period does Senator Henry Cabot Lodge believe in? Why? Factors That Led to the United States to Follow a Foreign Policy of Imperialism__________________________ - improvements in transportation and communication shortened distances around the world.__________________________ - business owners wanted access to raw materials for their factories and more oversea markets to sell their products and help provide economic stability.__________________________ - As foreign trade grew, the United States needed to protect their shipping routes and needed to establish naval bases around the globe to refuel and resupply ships.___________________________ - the frontier was officially closed in 1893 and many Americans believed the country should expand beyond its current borders.___________________________ - The United States believed it was superior to other nations and believed that superior nations had to dominate inferior nations in order to survive. ___________________________ - The United States wanted to help spread Christianity and “civilization” to other people of the world.Acquisitions during ImperialismAlaska2172970-7366000William Seward, Johnson’s Secretary of State, arranged for the US to buy Alaska for $____________million from ______________________________Seward had trouble convincing the ________ ________________________ to approve the purchase“Seward’s ____________________”2 cents/acre US acquired lands rich in timber, minerals and ________________________Became a state in 19591417320187579000Hawaii199199510414000Independent country ruled by a ______________Large____________ plantationsUS led revolution against Hawaiian rulerPresident Cleveland refused to ________________ Hawaii because it was taken by force Independent Republic of HawaiiFinally annexed during _________________ warPhilippines22872704064000Treaty of Paris (1899) ended Spanish-American War and gave the Philippines to the US in exchange for $________ million dollars.Emilio Aguinaldo declared a ____________________ and independent Philippines (more than 4,000 American die fighting)At the end of the insurrection Philippines came under ________________________ controlSamoaServed as a fueling station for the ________ ______beginning in 1872Britain and Germany showed interest in island as wellIn 1889, US and ______________________ decide to split the island and give __________ other considerationsSum It Up: How did America’s foreign policy from 1890-1920 reflect a change from earlier positions? ................
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