5.1 Motives for Imperialism

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Draw your best map of the United States. Whose will be most accurate?

5.1 Motives for Imperialism

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• Use the guided notes- Lesson 5.1 (11/20) in the Prep for Success Tab.

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Reminders

• Identify the motives and factors that drove U.S. imperialism

• Explain the factors that drove American imperialism

Objectives

Poll

Is Imperialism ever justified?

• Yes

• No

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

Fill in the Blanks

The Naval Act of

set production levels for a new, modern fleet in the United States.

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

Open Ended

What are TWO reasons that the U.S. became an imperialist nation in the late 1800s and early 1900s?