Imperialism is the policy by which stronger nations extend economic, political, and military control over a weaker territory/people to take advantage of resources.

Whatever its origins, American imperialism experienced its pinnacle from the late 1800s through the years following World War II. During this “Age of Imperialism,” the United States exerted political, social, and economic control over countries such as the Philippines, Cuba, Germany, Austria, Korea, and Japan.

Policy in which stronger nations extend political, economic, and or military control over weaker territories. What were the three main roots of American Imperialism? Cultural, Political, and Economic.

What are the three causes for American Imperialism? Political – Belief in superiority of American Culture….

• Cultural superiority.
• Racial superiority of Anglo Saxons (whites)
• Western laws and gov.

Americans justified imperialistic behavior by: Claiming that it was their responsibility. Americans and Europeans both claimed that it was their responsibility as superior races to uplift, civilize and Christianize native peoples. This was known as the White Mans Burden and was based upon the ideas of social Darwinism.

Three factors that spurred American imperialism was desire for military strength, thirst for new markets, and belief in cultural superiority. Religion played a big role in imperialism. It helped to spread Christianity and democracy to “civilize the world’s ‘inferior peoples’ “.

How did proponents of imperialism justify colonization? Albert Beveridge—Beveridge thought we needed to colonize to find new customers, new countries to invest in and new jobs for our people. Josiah Strong— He linked economics and spiritual expansion into the idea of “Imperialism of righteousness”.

Social Darwinism

The immediate result of the mutiny was a general housecleaning of the Indian administration. The East India Company was abolished in favour of the direct rule of India by the British government.

Imperialist ambitions in Africa were boosted by the expansion of competitive trade in Europe. The main aim was to secure commercial and trade links with African societies and protect those links from other European competitors.

Reasons for NEW imperialism:

• Same reasons as before (trade routes, bases, resources, territories)
• Plus some new reasons: create markets, financial investment, competition, military strategy, beliefs of superiority, and more…

With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the Dutch in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.

Of those Africans who arrived in the United States, nearly half came from two regions: Senegambia, the area comprising the Senegal and Gambia Rivers and the land between them, or today’s Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mali; and west-central Africa, including what is now Angola, Congo, the Democratic Republic of …