US Imperialism American Foreign Policy in the Gilded Age

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US ImperialismAmerican Foreign Policy in the
Gilded Age
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Defining Imperialism

• Define IMPERIALISM
• Identify the important characteristics of
  imperialism
• Explain Why would a nation want to engage in
  imperialism?
• What general effects does imperialism have on
  those involved?
• What does this mean within an analysis of the
  development of US Foreign Policy?

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Examples

• Cite a specific example of imperialism in world
  history. In your example, explain the
  relationship, the specific effects on those
  involved, and why it is important.

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Mercantilism

• Adam Smith
• Professor, Glasgow University
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
  Wealth of Nations (1763)
• (Thats him)

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• Berlin-Congo Conference
• The Scramble for Africa, 1895

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• Imperialism, as defined by the dictionary of
  human geography, is the creation and maintenance
  of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial
  relationship, usually between states and often in
  the form of an empire, based on domination and
  subordination.
• To what extent does the Berlin-Congo Conference
  (1884-1885) accurately reflect this concept of
  imperialism? Explain.

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Early American Foreign Policy

• 1796 G. Washingtons Farewell Address
• The great rule of conduct for us in regard to
  foreign nations is in extending our commercial
  relations, to have with them as little political
  connection as possible. So far as we have already
  formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with
  perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
• Europe has a set of primary interests which to
  us have none or a very remote relation. Hence
  she must be engaged in frequent controversies,
  the causes of which are essentially foreign to
  our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise
  in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties
  in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or
  the ordinary combinations and collisions of her
  friendships or enmities
• It is our true policy to steer clear of
  permanent alliances with any portion of the
  foreign world

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Monroe Doctrine, 1823

• as a principle in which the rights and
  interests of the United States are involved, that
  the American continents, by the free and
  independent condition which they have assumed and
  maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as
  subjects for future colonization by any European
  powers. . .

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• To establish on earth the moral dignity and
  salvation of man (1839)
• Our manifest destiny to overspread the continent
  allotted by Providence for the free development
  of our yearly multiplying millions (1845)
• -John L. OSullivan

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The Course of US Expansionism

• Japan
• Gunboat diplomacy (1853)
• Alaska
• Sewards folly (1867)
• Hawaii
• Economic / political control (1893)
• Spanish American War (1898)
• Cuba
• Guam
• Philippines
• Puerto Rico

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The White Man's Burden

• Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the
  best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo
  serve your captives' needTo wait in heavy
  harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your
  new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and
  half-child
• -Kipling, 1899

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Presidential Foreign Policy

• Big Stick diplomacy
• T. Roosevelt
• Dollar diplomacy
• W. H. Taft
• Moral diplomacy
• W. Wilson