Book contents
- The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume 2
- Series page
- The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume 2
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface
- 1 Springboards and Strategies
- 2 The Second Industrial Revolution at Home and Abroad
- 3 Race for Empire
- 4 “America Will Take This Continent in Hand Alone”
- 5 Crossing the Oceans
- 6 1893–1896: Chaos and Crises
- 7 The Empire of 1898 – and Upheaval
- 8 Pacific Empire – and Upheaval
- 9 Theodore Roosevelt: Conservative as Revolutionary
- 10 William Howard Taft and the Age of Revolution
- Conclusion: The 1865–1913 Era Restated
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
3 - Race for Empire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013
Book contents
- The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume 2
- Series page
- The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume 2
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface
- 1 Springboards and Strategies
- 2 The Second Industrial Revolution at Home and Abroad
- 3 Race for Empire
- 4 “America Will Take This Continent in Hand Alone”
- 5 Crossing the Oceans
- 6 1893–1896: Chaos and Crises
- 7 The Empire of 1898 – and Upheaval
- 8 Pacific Empire – and Upheaval
- 9 Theodore Roosevelt: Conservative as Revolutionary
- 10 William Howard Taft and the Age of Revolution
- Conclusion: The 1865–1913 Era Restated
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
Summary
The Exclusion Act of 1882 was shaped by the economic downturn, but also by a deep-seated racism that, while it excluded some Asians, led to the lynching of numbers of Asians and African Americans in the 1880s and 1890s. It also melded with chaotic and tragic economic conditions in the West to produce a series of wars waged by the U.S. army against Indians. The American Protective Association was organized to advance the argument that it was time, if not past time, for immigration restriction, because racially Americans could no longer be improved upon. The rubbery qualities of racism and social Darwinism were remarkable. A leading spokesman of the New South, Henry Grady of Atlanta, declared that white supremacy was merely the right of character, intelligence, and property to rule. Along with the African Americans and Indians, Chinese immigrants were given a close-up look at this racism.
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- The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations , pp. 43 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013