When Great Britain governed early America they taxed the, not just because they were in debt, they wanted to make money. They also imported tobacco from America. When America went overseas to expand to Hawaii they didn’t just annex Hawaii they added all the sugar plantations on Hawaii. Also sort of like Great Britain we made money off of Hawaii’s sugar. I think that if your going to be imperialistic you have to justify your self in overseas expansion and economic boosts.
He also stated that once we took them over, we could then educate them. He essentially wanted to do the country a right by taking control and politically righting a wrong. The second cause of Imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries were the economic forces involved. For example, in America, people were producing goods faster than people could end up using, creating an excessive surplus. They thought of the idea of taking over countries and placing trading posts everywhere to help get rid of this surplus (Document 2).
Colonies can be used to benefit the country. An example would be building a marketplace in a colony to accelerate the buying/selling of demands. It could also be used to build military power to defend the economic interest in a colony. After all colonies were taken, many countries started fighting and war broke out. They also thought that having a large empire would help to make them richer and more militarily powerful .People were greedy to get their hands on the colony for the sake of the money they can get.
The arrival of Euorpean traders in the 1500's made the Chinese government nervous and as a result, isolated the people for fear of cultural changes. However, because of the high demand for goods, trade continued to take place illegally. When the dynasty collapsed and the Manchus took over, trade was controlled overseas. In the Qing Dynasty, trade made for a huge population growth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Trade with America caused this growth through their introduction of new crops to China.
Imperialism is the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region. The new imperialism began in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. The political causes are the European needed bases for trade and navy ships and the spirit of nationalism. Some social causes were the theory of Social Darwinism, wish to share western civilization, and wish to spread Christianity. Lastly, the economic causes which was the need of new markets in which to sell their manufactured goods, Europeans needed raw materials to keep their factories busy, and place to infest profits.
American Imperialism Imperialism is the advocacy of extending the power and dominion of a nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions or by gaining indirect control over the political or economic life of other areas. This is how America came to be the most powerful nation, by eliminating racial discrimination. In the late Nineteenth Century, interests, ideology, and strategic interests encouraged American imperialism. Economic interests in other countries are what helped America improve their economic status. Making more trading routes around the world will increase trade with other countries.
Since these people were crucial to the economy, people tended to agree with their opinions. American factories were “producing more than they can consume” so they wanted to sell their excess materials and set up trading posts all around the world (D #2). Since Americans already had the materials they needed, doing this could only help them. These economic forces played a big part in the start of imperialism and benefitted America.
American Imperialism With the growth of the industrial revolution and technology in America, the desire for imperialism became more evident. I will explore the cause and effect of Imperialism, what other countries were involved, and the views of supporters as well as the detractors of this policy. Imperialism is the object-less disposition of a state to expansion by force without assigned limits. England, France, and Russia wanted to control foreign people and lands, in the early nineteenth century. So by the late nineteenth century imperialism was adopted because the technology of arms and the networks of commerce brought the prospect of effective, truly global empires within much closer reach.
Hollis) lead to an economic domination of the countries as well as economic development faster than would have happened on its own. A famous British economist, J. A. Hobson and following him, Lenin, attributed these colonial expansions of these years to new economic forces at work in the most industrialized nations of western and central Europe. This economic explanation of the urge to imperialism is usually taken to mean that the basic motives were also the basest motives and that, whatever political, religious, or more idealistic excuses might be made, the real impulse was always one of capitalistic greed for raw materials, advantageous markets, good investments, and fresh fields of exploitation. The argument or what Hobson called “the economic taproot of imperialism” was excessive capital in search of investment, and that this excessive capital came from over saving made possible by the unequal distribution of wealth.
Again, some people argued that the U.S. should avoid foreign affairs, and some argued that they should become more involved. Some people thought this would be a good idea because of the economic growth. America was manufacturing too much food and goods in their nation. They needed expansion. This would be a great idea to expand their markets internationally.