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Isolationism to Imperialism

NEUTRALITY

(aka, “___________________”)
19th Century (1800s)
INTERVENTIONISM

(aka, “___________________”)
20th Century (1900s)

Motivations for American Imperialism

Social ________________________
Expansion of ____________________
Europeans and Americans believed that their civilization as superior to those of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands.
Imperialism opened foreign markets for American agricultural and industrial products, easing economic tensions at home.
Spread ________________________ and Western Civilization
_____________________ Bases
American imperialists had convinced themselves that they had an obligation, referred to as the “White Man’s Burden,” to spread Christianity and elevate subject peoples while exploiting them economically.
America sought to assert itself as a naval power in the early twentieth century. Imperialism provided the United States with naval bases in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Although American imperialism established the United States as a world power and spread American political, economic, and religious ideals, it also provoked _______________________ from people who were subject to American domination – especially in the Philippines and Cuba.

The Spanish-American War marked the United States’ emergence as a

_____________________ _____________________.

Causes

American sympathy for rebels in

_________________ who were fighting against Spain for their independence.
The explosion of the

U.S.S. __________________ in Havana Harbor.
________________ Journalism

NYC Newspapers published sensational headlines in order to compete for circulation.

These factors resulted in PUBLIC PRESSURE on the U.S. government to declare war on Spain.

“REMEMBER THE _________________________!!!”

AMERICA WINS and inherits what’s left of Spain’s colonial empire:

In the Pacific
In the Caribbean
1. _________________________
2. _________________________
3.

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