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    IMPERIALISM DEBATE

    Directions: Read the documents below and summarize the motivations for U.S.
    imperialism in the space provided.

    Document #1: Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis. American
    Home Missionary Society, 1885
    It seems to me that God, with infinite wisdom and skill, is training the Anglo-Saxon race for an
    hour sure to come in the world’s future… The unoccupied arable [farmable] lands of the earth
    are limited, and will soon be taken… Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history-
    the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled... Then this race of
    unequaled energy, with all the majesty of numbers and the might of wealth behind it- the
    representative, let us hope, of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization…
    will spread itself over the earth. If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon
    Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon
    Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the result of this competition of races will be the
    “survival of the fittest”?...
    Document #2: Navy Captain Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, (1890)
    Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war in the
    United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide
    resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a
    government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.”

    Document #3: Albert J. Beveridge, Senate Campaign Speech, 1898


    American factories are making more than the American people can use: American soil is
    producing more than they can consume. Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the
    world must and shall be ours… We will establish trading posts throughout the world as
    distributing points for American products. We will cover the ocean with our merchant marine.
    Great colonies governing themselves, flying our flag and trading with us, will grow about our
    posts of trade. Our institutions will follow our flag on the wings of commerce.
    Document #4: Henry Cabot Lodge, Senate Speech
    Small states are of the past and have no future. The modern movement is all toward the
    concentration of people and territory into great nations and large dominions (self-governing
    territories). The great nations are rapidly absorbing for their future expansion and their present
    defense all the waste places of the earth. It is a movement which makes for civilization and
    advancement of the race. As one of the great nations of the world, the United States must not fall
    out of the line of march.”
    Motivations for Imperialism
    Directions: Identify several factors that motivated American
    imperialism in the space below.

    1) Strong is trying to prove that the Anglo-Saxon race is superior to all other races and that they are
    the ones responsible for spreading Christianity and providing freedom to other territories. More
    specifically, Central and South America and Africa are not capable of governing themselves and the
    Anglo-Saxon race will defeat them and take over.

    2) Document 2 contributes to the belief that if the U.S. does not claim lands to establish areas for
    coaling stations to refuel ships with efficiency and guarantee that they are not left stranded in the
    middle of the sea. Therefore, it is necessary for designated fueling stations to be implemented on
    lands between East Asia and the U.S., so the nation can expand into other territories and increase its
    influence overseas.

    3) Beveridge’s viewpoint in this speech is promoting the conquering of smaller territories in order to
    better America’s economy. He also mentions that factories are making more than can be consumed by
    the American population, which is causing inefficiencies in the nation’s manufacturing system. So, it
    is necessary for the U.S. to establish more international trading centers to account for the
    overproduction and help with economic development.

    4) This document represents the opinion that how small territories are old-fashioned and that it is
    better for nations to be great in size and to be autonomous. It is also stating that this type of
    modernization is going to help progress the human race. Therefore, the U.S. should abide by this
    principle or it will become irrelevant and unable to have influence in the global sphere.

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