Monday 9-28-15

Use the following link to answer the questions assigned to the group.

U.S. Imperialism

Alaska
-From Russia 1867 - $7.2M
-Seward's Folly

Hawaii
-Missionaries-> Sugar Planters
-Hawaiian League
   -Bayonet Constitution
-Queen Liliuokalani
-Sanford B. Dole
-Annexed by US in 1898
   -William McKinley

China
-Opened by Great Britain in 1870s
-Spheres of Influence
-Open Door Policy
   -Sec. of State John Hay
-Boxer Rebellion

Japan
-Matthew Perry opened up in 1853
-Japan industrialization->Modernization
-Militarization
-Russo-Japanese War - 1904
   -Nobel Peace Prize for T. Roosevelt

Spanish-American War
-Cuba Libre Causes
   -Jose Marti
   -Gen. "Butcher" Weyler
     -"Reconcentracion"
-Yellow Journalism
   -Wm Randolph Hearst
   -Joseph Pulitzer
-Key Triggers
   -USS Maine explosion
     -"Remember the Maine"
   -DeLome Letter
-T.R.'s Role
2 Scenes of Action
-Philippines
   -Admiral George Dewey
   -Emilio Aguinaldo*
-Cuba
   -Theodore Roosevelt
   -Rough Riders
   -Buffalo Soldiers
     -John J. "Black Jack" Pershing

Splendid Little War
-Treaty of Paris 1898
   -Cuba becomes a US Protectorate
     -Platt Amendment
   -US Acquires:
     -Puerto Rico
     -Guam
     -American Samoa

-What to do with the Philippines?

-Philippine-American War

Link to Imperialism Activity