Ap Us Hist Ch29 Outline
...world the US was becoming increasingly outward looking as the exports of manufactured goods & agricultural products shot up
2. the US was given a new sense of power generated by: increasing population, wealth, industrial production
3. the US was suffering from labor violence & agrarian unrest so the US hoped overseas markets would relieve such pressures
4. other forces also stimulated overseas expansion
a. The yellow press of Hearst and Pulitzer got the public wanting excitement abroad
b. Rev. Strong's book our country: its possible future and its present crisis inspired missionaries to spread their religion and values backwards People
c. Americans were interpreting Darwinism to mean that the Earth belonged to the strong and the fit "the US"
5. Africa was separated by European countries in a crazy unorganized rush of colonial conquest
6. Japan, Germany, and Russia obtained lands by force from the Chinese empire whose condition was weak and not up to normal standards
7. if America was to survive in the competition of modern nation-states it too may have to become an imperial power
8. Capt. Mahan's book the influence of sea power upon history argued that control of the sea was key to world dominance and stimulated a naval race among the great Powers
a. America wanted a stronger steel navy and an American built isthmian canal between the Atlantic and Pacific
9. America's international interest made itself obvious in many ways
a. Secretary of State Blaine pushed his big sister policy hoping to rally Latin American countries behind the US's leadership and to open the Latin American markets to Yankee traders. Blaine's policy look like a success when he moderated the first Pan American conference in Washington DC
b. the delegates succeeded in making way for a series of increasingly important American assemblages
c. the delegates did little more than...
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