AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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The U.S. wanted to spread slavery to the Pacific Islands
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The U.S. wanted to make the Pacific Islands into states
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The U.S. wanted to establish democratic governments
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The U.S. needed naval bases in the Pacific Ocean
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Detailed explanation-1: -The U.S. presence in Hawai’i grew out of the need for a substantial base of operations in the Pacific to support U.S. interests in China. Ultimately this need became so great, and the U.S. presence so large, that the United States annexed the islands in 1898.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ultimately, annexation was achieved due to the perceived threat of the Japanese invasion. Waves of Japanese came to the islands in increasing numbers to work in the sugar trade. U.S. military leaders feared potential Japanese occupation of the islands and created a strategic naval base in the center of the Pacific.
Detailed explanation-3: -Both a desire for new markets for its industrial products and a belief in the racial and cultural superiority of Americans motivated the United States’ imperial mission.
Detailed explanation-4: -The three permanently inhabited U.S. Pacific territories are the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa.
Detailed explanation-5: -As trade with Latin America grew during the second half of the nineteenth century, it needed ports for its ships to refuel and resupply as they crossed the Pacific.