ipl-logo

Summary Of In Support Of An American Empire By Albert Beveridge

479 Words2 Pages

In “In Support of an American Empire” Albert Beveridge was a Senator who said that the United States should have the Philippines as one of their empires. He believed that the United States would benefit from the location of the country. The Philippines is located near China and other rich resources. China is one of our main consumers. It is also located in the Pacific, which he states is “our ocean.” He traveled to the Philippines to gather this information, which strengthened his belief that we should acquire it as one of our empires. He believed that the Philippines were not capable of being a self-governing country. We could help them achieve more if we made them one of our empires. After the all the fighting our soldiers did, Beveridge tries to persuade the president and the senators to adopt the resolution. …show more content…

He argued that having control over the sea was a key to world dominance. Having successful world power means having a great navy. He also believed in the annex of the Philippines. He felt that if you expand the military, you can be strong. With expanding the military, you also need trading ships and also have ports in other countries. You need colonies to control water, with that you need imperialism. Even if they did not want a navy, they need one because they need a way to protect themselves. The United States can become more powerful when they have a strong navy because they can help secure foreign markets to trade. Supporting a strong navy does not just help with protecting. It enables you to gain more political and economic power. Having that can help the country become a more powerful

Show More
Related
402 Words | 2 Pages

During his presidency, one of his goal was to expand westward which led him to buy New Orlean owned by France . However, during this time, France was fighting against Great Britain which

Read More
588 Words | 3 Pages

“We hold with Abraham Lincoln, that ‘no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent’... ‘that is despotism (rule by a tyrant),”(document A). Even though he was not alive, Abraham Lincoln posed a great point as to why the Philippines should not be annexed; they did not give their consent. The Philippines was taken over and annexed against their will by the US. Document A also says that annexing the Philippines extinguishes “the spirit of 1776 in those islands”.

Read More
173 Words | 1 Pages

Carl Vinson was a United State Representative from Georgia. He was a democrat and served for more than 50 years in the United States house of representatives. Vinson was elected to the Georgia House of Representative. On November 3,1914 he was sworn the youngest member of congress at age 30. Most of Vinson’s political career was spent trying to convince the congressman about the importance of military.

Read More
949 Words | 4 Pages

During Teddy Roosevelt’s first presidency, he attempted to tie with other governments, making this a political impact on the U.S. Therefore, when he noticed a problem or issue in another country, he traveled over there to stop it before it got too out of hand. He did this in order to preserve America and its people. Roosevelt saw the negotiations about the Panama Canal and intervened so it would help out Americans by connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean instead of

Read More
1031 Words | 5 Pages

He advocated an increase in action by the U.S. and other nations as a response of growing expansionism by Germany, Japan, and Italy. “The political situation in the world… has been growing progressively worse…” This lends to the idea that because of the political situation, the involvement of presidents increase. In his speech, it shows an effort to combat isolationist arguments. He advocates the idea of “containment”, which is also seen in another of his Quarantine Speech.

Read More
777 Words | 4 Pages

A passionate politician, he advocated for war with Great Britain shortly after the inception of the United States. He was the chairman on the committees that passed bills supporting roads, permanent roads, and a strong army and navy. During this time, he was a proponent of nationalism, supporting strong national policies. He served as the secretary of war under James Monroe. He was a leading member of the old Republican party (later the Democratic party).

Read More
749 Words | 3 Pages

In 1899, the United States annexed the Philippines after a short but bloody war with Spain. These rich, plentiful islands full of resources were in great demand. The U.S. saw the Philippines; fighting against Spain so like them when they were rebelling, and decided to step in and aid ‘the spirit of 1776’ (Doc. A). However, the question still remains: should the United States have annexed the Philippines?

Read More
592 Words | 3 Pages

Imperialism was motivated by, “political ambitions… Nation’s will to power… or glory or national greatness,” (Doc 3). Imperialism for many countries is caused to improve the nation’s overall power. Additionally, according to President Mckinley, the U.S.’s involvement of Imperialism in the Philippines, was due to the fact that, “They were unfit for self-government,”(Doc. 7). The U.S. believed that there was nothing else for them to do, but take them over.

Read More
1532 Words | 7 Pages

Theodore Roosevelt is considered as one of the most active and energetic Presidents in American history. The 26th President of the United States had a reputation of bringing attention to Progressive issues at national level. His speech, “The Strenuous Life” reflects his own life experiences, efforts and hardships in life. Roosevelt gave the speech to a group of wealthy people before the Hamilton Club, Chicago on April 10, 1899 after the America Senate signed agreement with Spain that established Philippines as a colony of American state. In his speech, Roosevelt addresses the American nation to shoulder their responsibilities nationally and internationally.

Read More
526 Words | 3 Pages

With intent to influence the senate and president on why they should fight to keep the Philippines, he uses his negative view on Asians to his advantage and make them look like lost and hypnotized savageries. It states, “They mistaken kindness for weakness, forbearance for fear…could not be otherwise unless you could erase hundreds of years of savagery…”(Beveridge 1). Beveridge writes that they were not capable of identifying good from bad intents, making them look dumb. He is able to support this claim by writing that they were in control of the Spaniards' rule for hundreds of years. This quote shows Beveridges attempt to use emotion to appeal to the idea of American imperialism.

Read More
1053 Words | 5 Pages

After Roosevelt’s election to office of the president, he held his ideas of a strong foreign policy true by advocating for his “Big Stick” policy. This carried the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine which stated that the US could and should intervene in foreign affairs whenever its interest were threatened. Additionally, Roosevelt was not the lone president supporting imperialism; William Jennings Bryan also supported imperialism. Bryan, in fact, was the president who annexed the Philippines. Bryan thought that the Philippines needed America to aid in their road to civilization because they could not govern themselves (

Read More
706 Words | 3 Pages

He believes that being a part of Britain is holding America back from going forward to the future, so he stresses the importance of fighting for what they believe in, which is to lead themselves. He wants to be known as the man who helps his country on the right path and a year later, he does just that, where the beliefs in self-government lead them to the now self-ruled United States of

Read More
374 Words | 2 Pages

William McKinley in his thoughts on American Expansionism has identified the reasons why America had no other choice but to incorporate Philippines as a part of it. This writing has been lifted from the excerpts of an interview with William McKinley soon after Spain had surrendered in the Spanish-American war. McKinley cleverly talks in this interview about how Philippines just came and fell into the laps of America thereby suggesting the helpless stance of America. He talks about how America’s sole intention and purpose had only been to safeguard its own interests as a country. He had to order that the Spanish fleets in Manila be destroyed because if left unattended, they would have crossed the Pacific and wreaked havoc in the American states

Read More
392 Words | 2 Pages

Essay One: Imperialism Flies circle great black lumps as the moist air ravages the corpses. Dried blood soaked into the ground after faceless soldiers brutally destroyed its owners’ lives. These were the stories in the newspapers, the movies, and the films. Horrified by these crimes against humanity, the American public was spurred into action against the Spanish oppressors. the United States invaded Cuba in 1898 to pursue humanitarian efforts.

Read More
468 Words | 2 Pages

In being an anti-imperialist the worrisome is not that one opposes the idea of expansion of religion, commercial, and constitutional. It’s that with the annexing of these tropical islands would come to a result of the American system of self government would be that America might abandon this idea that makes America that nation it is to this point. Three reasons why the U.S should avoid imperialism is because it fails to follow that criteria of the constitution, could lead to tyrants like behavior, and could lead to conflict One argument that can’t be missed is the fact that the constitutions sets forth a principle that states “consent of the governed” after further research this means that to imperialize and annex other islands would violate

Read More

More about Summary Of In Support Of An American Empire By Albert Beveridge

Related Topics

Open Document