Transcript Major factors that drove IMPERIALISM

U.S. Imperialism In Asia &
Latin America
Chapter 27 review
Hawaii
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Why did the US want Hawaii?
• Good climate
• Fertile soil (sugar)
• Good place for navy base & ship stops
• Hawaiians are uncivilized & needed help
How did America Influence Hawaii?
• 1886 Bayonet Constitution
forced King Kalakaua to sign at
gunpoint
– Limits kings power
– Gives U.S. control of Pearl
Harbor
• Queen Liliukokalani takes
over after Kalakua dies
* wants independence
• U.S. calls in the Marines
• In 1898 U.S. annexed
Hawaii- becomes a state
in 1952
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China
• Boxer Rebellion 18991901
– “Righteous Fists of
Harmony” (Boxers)
– Stopped by Britain, France,
Germany, Russia and
Japan. Each hoped to
divide China among
themselves
Open Door Notes
Open Door PolicyJohn Hay/ President
McKinley 1900
– Opens trade ports to
all nations
– Lets China collect
tariffs (taxes)
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Mexico
• Mexican gov. headed by Porfirio Diaz
• Encouraged foreign investments
• Americans owned oil, mines, railroads and
ranches in Mexico
Mexico
• 1911 Mexican peasants/workers led by
Francisco Madero overthrew Diaz &
promised a democratic government
• Victoriano Huerta takes over
• 1914 Huerta’s officers arrest American
soldiers…later release
• President Wilson invades Mexico
• Huerta steps-down and Carranza
becomes President and is backed by the
U.S.
Mexican Revolution
• Rebels Francisco “Pancho” Villa and
Emiliano Zapata opposed Carranza
• “better to die on your feet then to live on
your knees” Zapata
Villa
Wanted Dead or Alive
• Villa invites Americans to Mexico to
engineer mines
• Has them killed
• 15,000 American soldiers sent to capture
Villa… unsuccessful
• As conflict emerges in Europe (WWI) U.S.
makes peace w/ Mexico
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Panama
• French wanted a new trade route
• 1880’s began 50mile canal across Panama
– 10yrs + 20,000 lives + $280million= give up!
• 1903 U.S. try to save canal plan
– U.S. -- $10 mil for 6 miles and $250k yearly rental for 99years
• Only issue …Panama was a providence of Columbia = a revolt
Benefits of the Panama Canal
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Review of U.S.
Foreign Policy
• Roosevelt- Big Stick Policy
• Monroe Doctrine– Named U.S. as protector of Western Hemisphere
– “Protected” interests in Latin America
• Roosevelt Corollary- non intervention in
Latin America
• Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy-“substituting dollars
for bullets”
Fighters of Imperialism
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Fidel Castro (Cuba)
Che Guevara (Cuba)
Jose Marti (Cuba)
Emilio Aguinaldo (Philippines)
Francisco Madero (Mexico)
Francisco “Pancho” Villa (Mexico)
Emiliano Zapata (Mexico)
Boxers (China)