Transcript America as a World Power: Expansion

Review from Chapter 21: The Progressive
Era
1. “I controlled many city and county governments through both legal
and illegal means.” What am I?
2. “I was a group of laws passed to help people injured at their
workplaces.” What am I?
3. “I was a group that worked for equal rights for African Americans.”
What am I?
4. “I granted women the right to vote.” What am I?
5. “I founded a group that became the National Woman’s Party.” Who
am I?
What we learned in the Progressive
Era (1868-1920)
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Progressives reacted against political
corruption and poor working
conditions
New amendments to Constitution
(16th, 17th, 18th, 19th)
Workers rights
Rights of women and minorities
America as a World Power:
Expansion (1867-1920)
The Expansion of America:
Support and Opposition
I left these shores, at Vancouver, a red-hot imperialist. I wanted the
American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and
tame for it to content itself with the Rockies. Why not spread its wings over
the Philippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing
to do.
I said to myself, here are a people who have suffered for three centuries. We
can make them as free as ourselves, give them a government and country of
their own, put a miniature of the American constitution afloat in the Pacific,
start a brand new republic to take its place among the free nations of the
world. It seemed to me a great task to which we had addressed ourselves
But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of
Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to overpower the people of
the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. We have also pledged
the power of this country to maintain and protect the terrible system established in the
Philippines by the Friars.
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and
let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an antiimperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
What we are going to learn about
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Isolationism vs. Imperialism
Changing US foreign policy
US expansion into the Pacific
Spanish-American War
US expansion into Latin America
George
Washington’s
Farewell
Address
American
Isolationism
Manifest
Destiny
Def: avoiding involvement in
the affairs of other countries
The
Monroe
Doctrine
What is imperialism?
-Def: the practice of extending a nation’s
power by gaining territories for a colonial
empire
-Between 1870 and 1914, Europeans
extended their colonial empires until they
controlled most of Africa and Southeast
Asia
What were the roots of imperialism?
-The desire for raw materials to fuel
industrial growth, new markets for
manufactured goods, and increased power
Examples of Imperialism:
British Imperialism:
-England had colonies
all over the world:
Canada, India,
America, islands in the
Caribbean, and
territory in Australia
-America is a result of
British territorial
expansion
(from http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/divdept/sscience/history/devilfish.jpg)
Examples of Imperialism:
The “Scramble for Africa”:
-European powers sought to
gain African territories in
order to obtain natural
resources (gold in particular)
- Imperialism happens at the
cost of the native population
(from
(from
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/maps/africa1914.jpg)
http://wfps.k12.mt.us/teachers/carmichaelg/new_pa1.jpg)
The question of American Foreign Policy
Isolationism?
Imperialism?
Intervention?
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Do you think imperialism or
isolationism is the best foreign policy
for the U.S.? Explain your answer.