Transcript Lesson 4-1 Imperialism

UNIT #4 – BECOMING A WORLD POWER
LESSON #1 – Imperialism
(142-145)
LESSON #1 – Imperialism
• ESSENTIAL
QUESTIONS
1. Why did America start
pushing for an
overseas empire?
2. What regions of the
world did the USA
come to control in the
late 1800s to early
1900s?
VOCABULARY
Imperialism (142)
Protectorates (142)
Anglo-Saxonism (143)
Commodore Perry (144)
Treaty of Kanagawa (144)
Queen Liliuokalani (145)
Pan-Americanism (145)
Overseas Markets
What changed from 1865 to 1900?
Compare the amount of exports from
1870-1890. How much was the increase?
Overseas Markets
Analyze what this graph is showing us.
What is it saying about our interaction with
the rest of the world?
Overseas Markets
Why might a bigger navy be handy?
Without a big Navy, what might happen
to our overseas investements?
Imperialism
• Definition: (142)
a policy of extending a country's power through
use of military force. It creates an unequal
human and territorial relationship, based on
ideas of superiority and practices of
dominance.
• Two types: (142)
– Colonies
- a territory which is governed by another country. There is no
independence for a colony, it is under the direct rule of another country.
– protectorates
- weak territories protected (and partly controlled by stronger
ones). A country defends its protectorate, but it doesn't own it,
and it doesn't meddle with the protectorate's internal affairs.
What’s happening here?
What does this suggest about how England
and France see the rest of the world?
British
King
French
Emperor
That’s the
world
What’s happening here?
Chinese He’s not
Emperor happy)
That’s a
map of
China
German
King
What
are all
the guys
with
knives
doing?
Russian
Czar
What is this suggesting about the relationship of China with
England, Germany and Russia?
British
Queen
Japanese
Emperor
America Expanding
• What gave England and the USA the right to conquer other
lands and people?
– They thought they were superior to other [less
technological) regions, like Africa, Asia, and islands in the
Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
• Anglo-Saxonism –
– Belief that English speaking nations were superior to other
regions of the world, in…
• Character
• Creativity
• Systems of government
– What do you think motivated Americans to think in this
racist way? Were they trying to justify some actions they
were about to take?
The Spanish Empire
World Empires, around 1775
2.
1.
What do you think America will
Why would America have a
want to start doing, once they
problem with this map of the
settle in and feel strong as a
world?
nation?
American
Expansion
Step #1
Explain what’s being
suggested here
American
Expansion
Step #2
Explain what’s being
suggested here
The new American Navy
• Americans started modernizing in
early 1800s
• Americans used Navy to expand
influence into the Pacific islands
• Example: Japan (144)
– Explain what we did, and what
we got. (Japan)
1853 – US Warships sailed into
Tokyo Bay.
1854 – Japan signed TREATY
OF KANAGAWA giving USA
special trading rights with Japan
Taking Hawaii
• Step #1 – American investors moved into Hawaii and set up
sugar plantations
• Step #2 – American government allowed American investors to
not have to pay tariffs in America to sell their sugar
• Step #3 – America convinced Hawaii to grant America the
exclusive right to build a Navy Base at Pearl Harbor
• Step #4 – American plantation owners in Hawaii forced
Hawaiian king to accept a constitution that limited his power
over them
– Their goal: for USA to annex Hawaii
• Step #5 – Planters overthrew Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani
• Step #6 – USA annexed Hawaii in 1898
1. Was America justified in the way they took Hawaii?
2. England got control of China by forcing then to go to war.
People died. What’s different about the way we got our
Diplomacy in Latin America
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United States wanted Latin America to purchase more products from USA
They’d been buying most of their goods from Europe
USA suggested PAN-AMERICANISM, which meant all the American
nations should work more closely together.
• Latin American nations felt like USA was forcing them into treaties.
• They agreed ONLY to form an Organization of American States
1. Why would USA want Latin America to buy more from them, than
from Europe?
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
1. What did Adolph Plessy do? (135)
He was a partially black man (1/8 black, and very light skinned)
who took a seat on a train in a car designated just for whites
2. What “doctrine” did this lead to? (136)
The doctrine was known as “separate but equal,” and led to
legal discrimination in the South that lasted for more than 50
years