The Imperialist Vision

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The Imperialist Vision
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Imperialism economic and political domination
of a strong nation over a weaker one

• raw materials
• investment opportunities in other countries
• protect investments exert control over
  territories where investments are

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Protectorate imperial power allowed local
rulers to stay in control and protected them
against invasion exchange for protection local
rulers accepted advice on how to govern country
Guam
U.S. Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
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Indiana senator Albert J. Beveridge

• We are raising more than we can consume.
• We are making more than we can use, therefore,
  we must find new markets for our produce.

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Anglo-Saxonism Manifest Destiny, destiny of the
U.S. to expand overseas and spread its
civilization to others
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Josiah Strong minister, linked Anglo-Saxonism
to Christian missionary ideas

• Anglo-Saxon is divinely commissioned to be his
  brothers keeper.

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Expansion in the Pacific Americans moving
westward, keep going
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Am. leaders, U.S. would benefit from trade with
Japan, Japanese leaders feared excessive contact
with West

• 1852 Pres. Franklin Pierce ordered Commodore
  Matthew Perry to take a naval expedition to Japan
  to negotiate trade treaty
• July 8, 1853 4 American warships entered Yedo
  Bay (Tokyo Bay today)
• Japanese feared firepower, knew they couldnt
  compete against Western technology

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Ports of Simoda and Hakodadi opened to U.S. for
trade on March 31, 1854

• Japan moved towards industrialization...
• Westernization

Hakodadi Harbor
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Hawaii, sugarcane 1872, severe recession, U.S.
ratified a treaty in 1875 that exempted Hawaiian
sugar from tariffs

• Hawaiians, in exchange, granted the U.S. rights
  to a naval base at a site called Pearl Harbor

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• 1891 Queen Liliuokalani ascended the Hawaiian
  throne disliked influence Americans had in
  Hawaii
• planters, supported by Marines from the Boston,
  forced her to give up power
• U.S. eventually annexed Hawaii
• statehood in 1959

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• Latin America U.S. wanted Europeans to know
  they were the dominant power in the region
• 1889, Pan-American Conference, D.C. 17 Latin
  American nations attended
• economic goals and system for settling disputes

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OAS Organization of American States
result of the conference
promote cooperation among nations of the Western
Hemisphere
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• building a modern navy necessity for
  imperialism
• Captain Alfred T. Mahan, U.S. Navy The
  Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
• navy to protect merchant ships and defend the
  right to trade with other countries
• bases overseas to operate navy far from home