Beveridge believes that occupying the Philippines would help make the United States a world power, while Carnegie thinks it would leave the United States open to attack.

Where does Senator Beveridge believe the US must expand trade to? Image courtesy of the Library of Congress Senator Albert Beveridge of Indiana argued for an expanded U.S. role in the Pacific, suggesting that the Philippines and Hawaii could play an important part in U.S. commercial and military interests.

The arguments for imperialism included the US and Europe’s desire to find new sources of raw materials, establish new markets for trade, spread Christianity and Western ideas, and create strategic military bases.

23–26. Students may answer that Beveridge’s primary motive for U.S. imperialism was economic profit and his justification was a racist belief in Anglo-Saxon supremacy. Students may cite as evidence his argument that American foreign policy should operate to enhance American economic interests.

Those who favored annexation claimed the Filipinos were incapable of self rule and needed the leadership of the United States, a nation of order and progress. Additionally, they feared that if the United States did not annex the Philippines, Japan or Germany might.

The anti-imperialists opposed expansion, believing that imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from “consent of the governed.” The League argued that such activity would necessitate the abandonment of American ideals of self-government and non-intervention—ideals …

Three factors fueled American Imperialism.

• Economic competition among industrial nations.
• Political and military competition, including the creation of a strong naval force.
• A belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon descent.

WHAT WERE THE MAJOR FACTORS THAT DROVE UNITED STATES IMPERIALISM AND ACQUISITION OF NEW TERRITORIES? A theory of imperialism says that imperialistic U.S. policies are driven not simply by the interests of American businesses, but by the interests of the economic elites of a global alliance of developed countries.

American Imperialism

• Desire for military strength.
• Thirst for new markets.
• Belief in cultural superiority.

The major effects that stemmed from the war were that Cuba gained their independence from Spain, the United States gained Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, and the Spanish Empire collapsed. Cuba had been fighting for its independence from Spain for many years before the start of the Spanish-American War.

The USA interests in Asia during the late 1800’s was to protect trade interests. This underpins why such policies such as the open door policy was advocated for by the USA,especially on regard to China.

Gold rush and mining opportunities (silver in Nevada) The opportunity to work in the cattle industry; to be a “cowboy” Faster travel to the West by railroad; availability of supplies due to the railroad. The opportunity to own land cheaply under the Homestead Act.

The U.S. began to expand overseas because they wanted an empire abroad. Merchants already traded with China. They also wanted to trade with Japan. They also wanted world power, spread christianity and western civilization, and raw materials and new markets.

The primary reason the U.S. expanded its influence in foreign countries: Economic reasons – industrialization in the late 1800s increased the need to trade with other countries. Sales of American goods to foreign countries were important to the workers in the U.S. because: a.

The United States expansion abroad was bad because it was based on the economic exploitation of people and resources from other countries. Expansion abroad was not justified because the United States infringed on the rights of other free people.