Blue Planet
Chapter 27 – Empire and Expansion
America Turns Outward America started looking expand and get into international markets because of population growth and more wealth. Farmers were also looking for new markets to sell their crops. Josiah Strong’s book Our Country encouraged people to spread their religion to the people that didn’t know better. Theodore Roosevelt believed that Darwinism meant that the fittest country (U.S.) was entitled to the entire world. Africa was colonized by Europeans and Japan by Germany and Russia. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, said that the key to world dominance was controlling the sea, this lead to a race between nations for the best navy and a demand by the people for a better navy. James G. Blaine created the Big Sister policy, which aimed to open Latin American markets to America. In 1889 he presided over the first Pan-American conference, in D.C. American and Britain came close to war over an area between British Guiana and Venezuela that was believed to have gold.
Spurning the Hawaiian Pear Hawaii had been used as a rest stop for shippers and sailors in the early nineteenth century. Hawaii became a very important place for sugar production. America came to regard Hawaii as part of the country and warned others in the 1840s to stay away. In 1887 an agreement was made for a free naval base to be at Hawaii (Pearl Harbor). Disease had cut down the Hawaiian population down to 1/6 of what it was when Europeans first made contact. Americans brought in large amounts of Asian laborers to work the sugarcane fields and mills. The McKinley Tariff of 1890 blocked the Hawaiian product. The Queen denied the right to annex Hawaii so whites revolted with the aid of the American military in 1893. A treaty of annexation was proposed but a new president came into office (Cleveland) and withdrew because he felt Hawaii was wronged.
Cubans Rise in Revolt The people of Cuba rose
America Turns Outward America started looking expand and get into international markets because of population growth and more wealth. Farmers were also looking for new markets to sell their crops. Josiah Strong’s book Our Country encouraged people to spread their religion to the people that didn’t know better. Theodore Roosevelt believed that Darwinism meant that the fittest country (U.S.) was entitled to the entire world. Africa was colonized by Europeans and Japan by Germany and Russia. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, said that the key to world dominance was controlling the sea, this lead to a race between nations for the best navy and a demand by the people for a better navy. James G. Blaine created the Big Sister policy, which aimed to open Latin American markets to America. In 1889 he presided over the first Pan-American conference, in D.C. American and Britain came close to war over an area between British Guiana and Venezuela that was believed to have gold.
Spurning the Hawaiian Pear Hawaii had been used as a rest stop for shippers and sailors in the early nineteenth century. Hawaii became a very important place for sugar production. America came to regard Hawaii as part of the country and warned others in the 1840s to stay away. In 1887 an agreement was made for a free naval base to be at Hawaii (Pearl Harbor). Disease had cut down the Hawaiian population down to 1/6 of what it was when Europeans first made contact. Americans brought in large amounts of Asian laborers to work the sugarcane fields and mills. The McKinley Tariff of 1890 blocked the Hawaiian product. The Queen denied the right to annex Hawaii so whites revolted with the aid of the American military in 1893. A treaty of annexation was proposed but a new president came into office (Cleveland) and withdrew because he felt Hawaii was wronged.
Cubans Rise in Revolt The people of Cuba rose