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    Material Appendix A American Imperialism Part 1 Complete the chart by identifying the following: Identify the countries or areas where the United States engaged in countries or areas where the United States engaged in imperialistic actions during the period from about 1870 to 1914. Discuss why each area was important to American empire building—political, economic, and social. Explain America’s expansionist ideals. What were some factors that justified American imperialist actions?

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    the pilgrims came to the North American continent in search of a new and better life? Well, the pilgrims may be seen as an early example of imperialist. Just like in the early days of America, there were many good and bad things that imperialism brought, in which affected the country’s living conditions. Imperialism means to take over, and recently, the United states of America is trying to imperialize, this is known as American Imperialism. In fact, American imperialism splits into five different categories

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    Imperialism is atrocious and should not be allowed. It is the death of native people and their culture. It is selfish and goes against the ideal of humanity. Lastly, imperialism leads to even more conflict and war. Thus, imperialism should not be used as a form of expansion. Imperialism is the demise of native people and their culture. For example, American imperialism in Hawaii led to the overthrowing of their native government. “On January 17, 1893, the conspirators announced the overthrow of

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    William Graham Sumner, an American sociologist and Albert Beveridge, a U.S. senator from Indiana both disagreed as to whether imperialism was right for the country. Beveridge argues that imperialism is beneficial to the U.S. by giving access to raw materials, while Sumner fears that imposing rule on someone who does not want to be ruled makes us the exact people that we declared our independence from. This is just one example from their different views on American Imperialism. An empire, by definition

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    Imperialism destroyed African tribe peoples lives constantly throughout history. They were abused and scarred on the inside and out. Imperialism is extending a country’s power and intellect through strong ways such as military force and threatening families. The main age of imperialism was during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was mostly done by the Europeans to the people of Africa. Imperialism promoted things like racism, and took many innocent lives. Avatar is a science fiction film that

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    Imperialism wasn’t necessary, in the view point of what it did to the places that were taken over by America. American imperialism can be described as ironic when you think about it; it had the same principal as England just switched around to where America had control over the people. American viewpoints were pushed onto the different groups of people that were taken over, and it caused rivalry amongst the different countries. American imperialism forever changed the way people viewed themselves

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    Why did the U.S. become involved in imperialism? Imperialism, the policy of expanding a country's power through either diplomatic or military ways, was first seen in mid 17th century. The Monroe Doctrine looked southward into and beyond the Caribbean. This idea of expansion continued through the 17th century covering a wide area from Argentina (1852-1853) to China (1859) to Nicaragua (1894). With this precious experience in the 1890’s when the US the profit system took a toll due to the depression

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    American Imperialism According to Charley Reese, “ the truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.” The United States got involved in imperialism because we felt that taking over land would give us new sources of raw materials. It would also open up new markets to sell food. Secondly, the United States thought they were superior to other countries. They wanted to spread their beliefs to other countries

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    Industrial imperialism (a product of the industrial revolution) ,began in roughly 1880. During this time, people (predominantly europeans) began searching for land to colonize. Imperialism could also be tied to racism, with europeans believing that they were above everyone, and that they therefore, needed more land. These racist beliefs were often connected to social darwinism. This belief could be summed up with “Survival of the Fittest”, with the europeans believing that they were the “fittest”

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    didn’t because that was their method of keeping African slaves under their ownership. Nowadays, the life expectancy of African natives can be from forty five,  to seventy years, all because the British had no interest in helping the locals during imperialism. On the other hand, the cure for malaria was invented in 1832, it was called Quinine, it suppressed pain and helped with other medical concerns as well. However, they never distributed it to everyone, only British

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