USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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Imperialism is ____

(A) when a powerful nation uses its resources to help a weaker nation

(B) when a weaker nation invites a powerful nation to help it industrialize

(C) ** when a powerful nation takes control of the economy and government of a weaker nation

(D) when weak nations join together to fight a strong nation

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -What is imperialism in history? Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other territories and peoples.

Concept note-2: -Economic imperialism is minimally defined as the export of capital from one country to another.

Concept note-3: -Imperialism. Imperialism occurs when a strong nation takes over a weaker nation or region and dominates its economic, political, or cultural life. This type of foreign policy was practiced by European nations and Japan throughout the 1800s and early 1900s.

Concept note-4: -Imperialist ambitions pushed for the economic exploitation of colonized nations to benefit the mother country. As imperial states began controlling the economy of the colonized territory, interests for the welfare of the colonized peoples had little influence in defining their economic policies.

Concept note-5: -Imperialism is when one country exercises power over another through various methods of control. It describes an economic, political, and social system in which one country subjugates others, and brings them under its control.