5.1 Motives for Imperialism
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Anthony Raco
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Reminders
Identify the motives and factors that drove U.S. imperialism
Explain the factors that drove American imperialism
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Poll
Is Imperialism ever justified?
Yes
No
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Multiple Select
What factors contributed to the United States's desire to engage in imperialism? Select all that apply.
Increased wealth of industrialization
Belief in Manifest Destiny
Competition with European nations
Need to finance Reconstruction in the South
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The Naval Act of
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Match
Match the description with the term it best describes:
A policy in which a stronger nation extends its economic, political, military, or social control over a weaker territory.
The theory that claims that inferior races and peoples were destined to be poor and under the control of their "betters"
A prominent belief in the 1800s that American settlers were entitled to conquer and control North America
Imperialism
Social Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
Imperialism
Social Darwinism
Manifest Destiny
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What are TWO reasons that the U.S. became an imperialist nation in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Draw your best map of the United States. Whose will be most accurate?
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