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US Expansionist Foreign Policies:

Social Causes #1– Promoting the “Superior” Social Order . US Expansionist Foreign Policies:. Social Darwinism. The “White Man’s Burden”. US as protector and promoter of a superior culture. Social Causes #2 – A Distraction from Social Troubles at Home. US Expansionist Foreign Policies:.

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US Expansionist Foreign Policies:

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  1. Social Causes #1– Promoting the “Superior” Social Order US Expansionist Foreign Policies: Social Darwinism The “White Man’s Burden” US as protector and promoter of a superior culture

  2. Social Causes #2 – A Distraction from Social Troubles at Home US Expansionist Foreign Policies: Race Riots & Labor Wars Cycles of Boom & Bust • 1893 – 1898, 3rd major depression in 25 yrs Progressive Movement Mother Jones Ida B Wells

  3. Political Causes US Expansionist Foreign Policies: a. Everyone else is doing it b. Monroe Doctrine

  4. Political Causes c. Panama Canal:                              i. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 ii. Concerns over national security US Expansionist Foreign Policies: d. Hemispheric Leadership

  5. Ideological Causes US Expansionist Foreign Policies: a. Isolationism b. Manifest Destiny i. Under Polk c. Nationalism:            i.  Alfred Mahan ii. Imperialism is natural extension of manifest destiny

  6. Religious Causes US Expansionist Foreign Policies: Christianize

  7. Economic Causes US Expansionist Foreign Policies: a. Industrial Revolution b. US frontiers are closed so must look outside of US c. 1889 Pan American conference

  8. Acquisitions US Expansionist Foreign Policies: a. 1867 Alaska b. Hawaii 1898 c. Samoan Islands and Midway: 1899

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