The Lure of Imperialism
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Everybody’s doing it!
Do you know why?
THE LURE OF IMPERIALISM
Imperialists Activity
Imperialism – extending a nation’s power
over other lands
Economic Interests – New Markets & New
Resources
Military Needs – Need military bases, protect
shores and trade, strong navy
Ideology
Nationalism
Love of one’s country
White Power: Cultural Superiority
Social Darwinism
Christian Missionaries
Duty to convert others
Scramble for Territory
Late 1800s
European powers dominated Asia and Africa
Great Britain controlled one-fourth of
world’s land and population
“The sun never sets on the British Empire”
United States
North America - Alaska
Pacific – Hawaii, Japan, China
Taking Control Of Hawaii
Early Contact
Captain Cook (1778)
King Kamehameha – united eight major Islands
Diseases
Population
1770s – 300,000
1893 – 40,000
Sugar
Money for Americans
1875 – Hawaiian sugar sold to USA tax free
Plotting Against the King
Hawaiian League
Members – Americans
Purpose – Overthrow Monarchy
Bayonet Constitution
Restricted the king’s power
Most Hawaiians lost ability to vote
Pearl Harbor
Forced to give to USA
Port for the US Navy
Sugar in USA taxed again (1890)
Angered American Planters
Wanted to make HI a USA territory
End of the Monarchy
Queen Liliokalani – 1891
Announced plan to restore monarchy
US businessman had Marines overthrow her
Sanford B. Dole
Appointed himself the President of Hawaii
Annexation (1898)
President McKinley approved Annexation
Influence in China
Spheres of Influence
Area where outside nation exerts control
Open Door Policy
Give all nations equal trading rights in China
Boxer Rebellion
Boxers – Chinese rebels that hated/attacked
foreigners
Laid siege to Beijing
20,000 international troops crushed them
Influence in Japan
Japan = Isolated
US sailed fleet of modern battleships into
Tokyo Bay in 1853
1854 agreed to open trade with US
Started rapid modernization
Russo Japanese War
Japan = Imperialists
Great White Fleet—U.S. flexes military
muscles for the world to see!