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Chapter 10, Section 1
Imperialism and America, Part A
1. What is Imperialism?
• A policy in which a more powerful nation
imposes, in some combination, military, political,
and/or economic control over a weaker nation or
territory.
2. In the second half of the 1800s, European powers
“scrambled” to carve up and control what
continent?
• Africa
3. What Asian country, beginning in the 1860s,
began a form of modernization that would
propel it into the exclusive club of international
powers?
• Japan
4. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, more and
more Americans warmed to the idea of what?
• American expansion overseas
5. Due in part to the influence of U.S. Admiral Alfred
T. Mahan (1840-1914), the United States began to
do what in the late 1800s?
• Build up its naval fleet via steel warships
6. What were two of these early steel battleships?
• USS Maine
• USS Oregon
7. What were three motivations for the United
States to join the family of imperialistic powers?
• A Desire for military strength
• A thirst for new markets for American
products
• A belief in the cultural (even racial) superiority
of white Americans
8. By the late 1800s, the American economy was
producing a surplus of what?
• Agricultural goods
• Manufactured goods
9. How would an imperialistic foreign policy help to
alleviate the problems of the U.S. economy producing
more products than could be consumed by Americans?
• These surplus American products could be sold to
consumers in overseas areas controlled by the U.S.
10. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many
Americans believed not only in white supremacy
but an even deeper supremacy of which white
ethnic group?
• Anglo-Saxons (i.e., peoples whose ancestry
stemmed from Britain and parts of Germany)