AmericanAmerican ImperialismImperialism

Motivations for ImperialismEconomic Military Political Religious &

Philosophical

Latin America

American Imperialism in Latin America

Event Date Place

SignificanceWilliam Walker 1856-1857 Nicaragu

aPan-American

Conference1889-1890 Western

hemisphere

Venezuela Boundary Dispute

1895 Venezuela &

British Guiana

Building a Canal in Central America

1867-1914 Nicaragua,

Columbia, Panama

Spanish-American War, Treaty of Paris

&Platt Amendment

1898 Cuba, Puerto Rico

Insular Cases 1901 Puerto Rico,

Guam, etc.

Lodge Corollary 1912 Baja Calif.

(Mexico)Mexican Revolution 1910s Mexico

Asia & the Pacific

American Imperialism in Asia & the Pacific

Event Date Place

SignificanceMatthew Perry at

Edo1853-1854 Japan

Purchase of Alaska 1867 Alaska

Annexation of Hawaii

1898 Hawaii

Spanish-American War & Treaty of

Paris

1898 Philippines, Guam

Philippine-American War

1899-1902 Philippines

Open Door Policy &Boxer Rebellion

1899-1900 China

Treaty of Portsmouth

1905 Russia, Japan

Root-Takahira Agreement

1908 Japan, China,

Manchuria, Korea, Hawaii

Jones Act 1916 Philippines

Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine

Monroe Doctrine, 1823

Olney Interpretation, 1895

Roosevelt Corollary, 1904

Lodge Corollary, 1912

Monroe Doctrine & the Roosevelt Corollary

Write a sentence or two giving your interpretation of these two political cartoons.

America’s New RoleWashingt

on’s Proclamat

ion of Neutrality

Monroe Doctrine

Polk & “Manifest Destiny”

Roosevelt Corollary,

“Big Stick” & Gunboat

Diplomacy

Taft’s Dollar

Diplomacy

Wilson’s Missionary

(Moral) Diplomacy

Essential QuestionWas the age of U.S. imperialism a

change in or continuation of trends in American history?