Imperialism Chapter 19

"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. 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."

Whose viewpoint does this best support?

• Josiah Strong:The U.S. Should Spread "Anglo-Saxon Civilization"

• Alfred T. Mahan: The U.S. Must Become a Great Sea Power

• Henry Cabot Lodge: The U.S. Must Expand to Compete

• Carl Schurz: The U.S. Should Become a Power for Peace

"In its dealings with other nations [the United States] should have scrupulous regard, not only for their rights, but also for their self-respect. With all its . . . resources for war, it should be the great peace power of the world . . . It should seek to influence mankind, not by heavy artillery, but by good example and wise counsel. It should see its highest glory, not in battles won, but in wars prevented. It should be so invariably just and fair, so trustworthy . . . that other nations would instinctively turn to it as . . . the greatest preserver of the world’s peace."

Whose viewpoint does this best support?

• Josiah Strong:The U.S. Should Spread "Anglo-Saxon Civilization"

• Alfred T. Mahan: The U.S. Must Become a Great Sea Power

• Henry Cabot Lodge: The U.S. Must Expand to Compete

• Carl Schurz: The U.S. Should Become a Power for Peace

"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 . . . Then this race of unequalled energy . . . the representative, let us hope, of the largest liberty, the purest Christianity, the highest civilization . . . will spread itself over the earth . . . 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 . . . Is there room for reasonable doubt that this race . . . is destined to dispossess many weaker races, assimilate others, and mold the remainder, until, in a very true and important sense, it has Anglo-Saxonized mankind?"

Whose viewpoint does this best support?

• Josiah Strong:The U.S. Should Spread "Anglo-Saxon Civilization"

• Alfred T. Mahan: The U.S. Must Become a Great Sea Power

• Henry Cabot Lodge: The U.S. Must Expand to Compete

• Carl Schurz: The U.S. Should Become a Power for Peace

"requires underlying military readiness, like the proverbial iron hand under the velvet glove. To provide this, three things are needful: First, protection of the [nation’s] chief harbors by fortifications and coast-defence ships, which gives defensive strength . . . Secondly, naval force,

the arm of offensive power, which alone enables a country to extend its influence outward. Thirdly, it should be an inviolable [unbreakable] resolution of our national policy, that no foreign state should henceforth acquire a coaling position [station] within three thousand miles of San Francisco . . . For fuel is the life of modern naval war; it is the food of the ship; without it the modern monsters of the deep die."

Whose viewpoint does this best support?

• Josiah Strong:The U.S. Should Spread "Anglo-Saxon Civilization"

• Alfred T. Mahan: The U.S. Must Become a Great Sea Power

• Henry Cabot Lodge: The U.S. Must Expand to Compete

• Carl Schurz: The U.S. Should Become a Power for Peace

". . . But, today, we are raising more than we can consume, making more than we can use. Therefore we must find new markets for our produce." —“The March of the Flag,” Senator Albert Beveridge, 1898.
Which statement supports the concern in this excerpt?

• Economic expansion is needed to keep the industrial market growing.
• Commercial agriculture is unable to meet the demands of the global market.
• Rapid industrialization causes economic markets to expand too quickly.
• Increased inflation causes instability in foreign economic markets.

The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

• annexation
• anti-imperialism
• assimilation
• economics

The U.S. foreign policy that focuses on moral values of right vs. wrong and the spread of American ideals of democracy and capitalism

• expansionism
• idealism
• imperialism
• interventionism

A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

• expansionism
• idealism
• imperialism
• interventionism

Direct involvement by one country in another country's affairs

• expansionism
• idealism
• imperialism
• interventionism

A national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs

• isolationism
• military
• national interest
• paternalism