Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.
-
Upload
allan-ellis -
Category
Documents
-
view
220 -
download
0
description
Transcript of Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.
![Page 1: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285)
Becoming a World Power
![Page 2: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Today’s Agenda• 7.1 slide show• Teddy Roosevelt PresentationHomework• Test Thursday on Progressive Era
![Page 3: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Define Imperialism. •Economic and political domination of a strong nation over a weaker nation
British Empire
![Page 4: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
What were the causes of American Imperialism?• Social Darwinism
– Belief in superiority of White Races– Believed nations were in competition &
that the strongest survived• Military bases
– Alfred T. Mahan’s The Influence of Sea Power upon History
• Said that nations must build strong navies & have bases or risk being destroyed by others
• Overseas Markets– Believed that nation needed overseas
markets to sell industrialized products– High tariffs shut off European markets
Take up the White Man's burden--
Send forth the best ye breed--
Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives'
need;To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen
peoples,Half-devil and half-child
Rudyard Kipling
![Page 5: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
• Spanish Atrocities– Spanish Gen. Weyler put 300 thousand
Cubans in concentration camps• American Investments in Cuba
– 100 million in yearly trade• Yellow Journalism
– US Press used emotional & dramatic stories to exaggerate Spanish atrocities in order to sell papers
• USS Maine (2/1898) – US ship exploded near Cuba
• Resulted in America acquiring territory (Imperialism) (Philippines, Puerto Rico)
What were the causes of the Spanish American War?
![Page 6: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
What was the “Big Stick” policy?• TR’s foreign policy• “Speak softly and carry
a big stick”– Don’t brag about power,
show it• Sent Great White
Fleet around world• Made America a world
power
How can the US navy get more powerful?
![Page 8: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Begin at 7:00
![Page 9: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Panama Canal Presentation
![Page 10: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
What is the significance of the Panama Canal?• Greatly reduced travel
time • Shrunk distance between
NY and San Francisco from 13 thousand to 5 thousand miles– Cut traveling time by
60 days• Save millions $$• Allow US to protect both
coasts• Announced US power to
world• Major Engineering
marvel
Suez Canal Panamanian Jungle
![Page 11: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Describe TR’s methods of getting the right to build the Canal.
• Shady• TR tried to buy rights to construct
canal from Columbia– Hay-Herran Treaty (1903)
• Offered $10 million, $250 thousand annually for “rent”
• Columbia declined• Panamanian revolution
– Rebels declared independence from Columbia
• TR supports Rebels• Panama agreed to US deal
![Page 12: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
![Page 13: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
How did the Canal work?
![Page 14: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Panama Canal
![Page 15: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?• Expanded Monroe Doctrine
(MD) with military force– Monroe Doctrine had
warned European powers not to acquire any more colonies in western hemisphere
• Dominican Republic– Owed Germany $ and
threatened to send troops• TR seized island and had debt
paid• Made US policeman of
western hemisphere
![Page 16: Chapter 7 (Appleby 260-285) Becoming a World Power.](https://reader036.fdocuments.in/reader036/viewer/2022062401/5a4d1b007f8b9ab05998682b/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
What impact did this new foreign policy have on America?
• Made it a world player
• “Entangled” US into European affairs