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Imperialism Warm-Up p 45

• Lets Review

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Reasons

• Economic
• Natural resources
• New markets
• Nationalistic
• White Mans Burden
• Humanitarian/Religious
• Land Resources money power

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Alfred Thayer Mahan

• One of the most important military strategist on
  the 19th and early 20th centuries
• Admiral in the Navy and a noted naval
• historian
• The Influence of Sea Power on History
• relationship between a strong navy
• and successful world commerce
• EXPANSIONIST
• Strongly influenced both Theodore
• Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

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The Influence of Sea Powers Upon History

• Having therefore no foreign establishments,
• either colonial or military, the ships of war of
• the United States, in war, will be like land
  birds,
• unable to fly far from their own shores. To
• provide resting places for them, where they
• can coal and repair, would be one of the
• first duties of a government proposing to
• itself the development of the power of the
• nation at sea

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Senator Beveridges Speech March of the Flag

• Today we are raising more than we can consume.
  Today we are making more than we can
  useTherefore, we must find new markets for our
  produce, new occupation for our capital, new work
  for our labor.What does all this mean for every
  one of us? It means opportunity for all the
  glorious manhood of the republicIt means that
  the resources and the commerce of these immensely
  rick dominions will be increased.