AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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To sell goods to more markets and people around the world.
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To imperialize as much land before the Europeans could.
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To establish naval bases around the world for increase security.
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It was America’s Manifest Destiny to imperialize “less civilized” countries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alfred Mahan justified American imperialism by arguing that the nation needed new markets, and that key to opening those markets was having a strong navy supported by the presence of naval bases throughout the world to supply ships.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mahan wanted the United States to build a blue-water navy. He wanted the nation to promote and subscribe to policies that would require the development of a large navy consistent with his theories as expressed in The Influence of Sea Power. As he later wrote: Navies are instruments of international relations . . .
Detailed explanation-3: -Mahan believed that national greatness was inextricably associated with the sea, with its commercial use in peace and its control in war; and he used history as a stock of examples to exemplify his theories, arguing that the education of naval officers should be based on a rigorous study of history.
Detailed explanation-4: -Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval strategist and the author of The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, argued that national prosperity and power depended on control of the world’s sea-lanes.