America Compared V Imperialism

By: Kyle Pollitt

American Imperialism in Comparative Perspective

✦ After conquering the vast area between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the American government looked toward the surrounding islands to conquer, annex, or purchase.

✦ At the same time European countries moved to conquer parts of Africa and Asia.

✦ By WWI Europeans and their descendents (now Americans) had established some sort of control of every part of the world over their respective indigenous peoples.

✦ American ideology wants to make the conquered colonies into a self-governing society using the United States as a model.

✦ European nations governed new territories from their homelands.

America’s Colonial Rule in the Philippines

✦ The United States fought 2 wars to acquire these islands in the Pacific.

✦ We fought Spain before paying them $20 million for the territory and we fought the native islanders who didn’t want Spanish or American invaders.

✦ Finally American governors won the hearts and minds of the Filipinos and the process of self-rule started in 1901.

✦ The Philippine Islands were officially declared independent in 1946.