GOAL SIX 6'01

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GOAL SIX6.01

• The Emergence of the United States in World
  Affairs
• (1890-1914)
• The learner will analyze causes and effects of
  the United States emergence as a world power.
• Examine the factors that led to the United States
  taking an increasingly active role in world
  affairs.

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Alfred T. Mahan- (1840-1914)

• naval strategist and historian. Mahan graduated
  from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1859 and served in
  the Civil War. A prominent American historian who
  emphasized the importance of sea power in war and
  peace, he influenced the growth of the U.S. Navy
  and promoted U.S. imperialism. Mahan wrote The
  Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783
  (1890), which had a strong impact on U.S. and
  world naval strategy and foreign policy preceding
  World War I.

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Josiah Strong

• The Reverend Josiah Strong was Secretary of the
  Congregational Home Missionary Society when he
  was asked to revise a manual put out by the
  Society on social questions. Instead Strong
  expanded the material into a persuasive book,
  which soon sold 170,000 copies and was translated
  into several foreign languages. Strong was a man
  of intense prejudices, which he did not hesitate
  to expound in his book, and which extended to
  immigrants, Catholics, alcohol, tobacco, large
  cities, and political machines.

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Josiah Strong

• He preached that in the future the "Anglo-Saxon
  race," especially the American part of it, would
  dominate the world. His was one of the first
  voices, in a time preoccupied by concern with
  national development and internal settlement,
  that urged Americans to think of their future
  international role and to develop their
  potentialities as an imperial nation.

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Frederick Jackson Turner(1861-1932)

• historian. Turner's influential paper "The
  Significance of the Frontier in American History"
  (1893) presented the theory that an abundance of
  free land strengthened democratic beliefs and
  national development in the United States. Turner
  viewed the frontier as a process in constant
  change, formed by the area's natural resources
  and the heritage and beliefs of the people who
  moved into it. He won the Pulitzer Prize for
  history in 1933 for Significance of Sections in
  American History (1932).

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Imperialism

• the foreign policy of controlling another
  country, usually by military means, or exploiting
  it economically. During the late 1800s, with the
  closing of the frontier, many Americans thought
  expansion elsewhere would be an efficient way to
  meet the continuing demands of the country's
  industry. New lands and colonies, it was thought,
  would strengthen its military power. By 1900 the
  United States had acquired Hawaii, Guam, the
  Philippines, and Puerto Rico in the name of
  imperialism.

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Spheres of influence

• A sphere of influence is a metaphorical region of
  political influences surrounding a country. When
  a country falls into another's "sphere of
  influence" that country frequently becomes
  subsidiary to the more powerful one, operating as
  a satellite state or de facto colony.