Imperialism Flashcards
Post war foreign policy
- imperialism
2. uphold Monroe doctrine
Ante-Bellum foreign policy
- isolation from Europe
2. Uphold Monroe doctrine
Factors encouraging imperialism
- economics
- yellow press
- religion
- social Darwinism
- captain Alfred Mahan
- navy is key to power
Alaska
U.s. Squires from Russia
Hawaii
#1 crop = sugar #1 customer = USA NE missionaries were first Americans to move to Hawaii
Last queen of Hawaii
Liliuokalani
McKinley tariff effects
Raises taxes on foreign sugar
Missionarie boys overthrow Hawaiian government and create a new one
Immediately request annexation from USA
First governor of Hawaii
Stanford Dole (fruit master)
Samoa
Both US and Germant want Pago Pago
Pan Am Conference
Goal: become #1 trading partners w/ Latin America
Venezuela
Gold discovered along border of Venezuela and British Ghana
Am get involved due to Monroe doctrine in fear that Britain may invade Venezuela.
Resulting in arbitration to see who gets the gold.
After this Britain tries to improve relations with the USA
Spanish - American war
Cuba = sugar based economy #1 customer = USA Am raises tax on sugar which destroyed Cuban economy Rebellions start
Weyler
Branded as butcher by am press
De lôme
Newspaper prints letter written by him talking about McKinley being weak.
American public is outraged
U.s. Maine
Explodes in Havana harbor and US blames Spain.