AP U.S. History / Unit 7: Period 7: 1890–1945
7.2 Imperialism: Debates
Notes
Reasons for expansion: new markets, naval power (Alfred Thayer Mahan), Social Darwinism, missionary goals, closing of the frontier. The US annexed Hawaii (1898). Anti-imperialists (Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie) objected.
Practice
Alfred Thayer Mahan argued that great nations needed:
The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
The US annexed Hawaii in:
Statehood came in 1959.
Anti-imperialists argued that imperialism:
Consent of the governed.
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