7.2: Imperialism Debates

Question 1

IMPERIALISM

Answer 1

• 1867: Purchase of Alaska
• Seward’s Folly then gold

Question 2

PRO-IMPERIALISM

Answer 2

• raw materials
• new markets
• Social Darwinism
• European expansion
• Strong’s “Our Country”: superiority and duty of whites
• Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden”
• Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”
• Mahan’s “The Influence of Sea Power on History”
• Congress approval of new steel fleet
• race for Pacific and Carribbean lands for U.S. naval dominance

Question 3

ANTI-IMPERIALISM

Answer 3

• self-determination hypocrisy
• Isolationism: Farewell, expenses and war
• Constitution should follow the flag and make browns citizens
• Grant’s “The Passing of the Great Race”
• Anti-Imperialist League: Twain and Jennings Bryan