HAPPY Tuesday It is great to see you today!

DO NOWShould bigger and stronger

countries take over smaller weaker countries for their resources? Explain 5 lines

HOMEWORK Guided reading 10-1

December 20, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS

DO NOW REVIEW

Pair Share your do Now response!

LEA

RN

ING

G

OA

LS

Learning Goals are the purpose of our lesson. As you advance in this course, the goals should become easier and easier to achieve. If you ever wonder why we are doing something in class, take a look at the learning goals and think about how our activity might help you achieve our goals.

Our goal is to Explain the economic and cultural factors that fueled the growth of American imperialism.

Our goal is to Describe how the United States acquired Alaska.

Our goal is to Summarize how the United States took over the Hawaiian Islands.

TODAY WE WILL: Listen: America

Claims an Empire, Notes

Questions, Comments, Concerns

Class Closing

WARM-UP

Does the U.S. have a duty to fight for freedom in neighboring countries? Explain your answer.

When should the U.S. intervene in the affairs of another country?

In what ways do dramatic headlines influence American opinion?

CORNELL NOTESSection Notes

Topic (What am I taking notes on?): AMERICA CLAIMS AN EMPIRE

What I already know about this topic is…

New Vocabulary (to look up later):

Chapter # 10 Section #: 1

IMPERIALISM IMPERIALISM- The policy in which stronger nations extend economic, political or military control over weaker territories.

By the 1880’s, many American leaders thought the U.S. should establish colonies overseas

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

3 FACTORS FUELED AMERICAN IMPERIALISM:

1) Desire for military strength2) Thirst for new markets3) Belief in the superiority of

American culture

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

NAVAL POWER Admiral Alfred T. Mahan of the U.S. Navy

Supported growing American naval power so the U.S. could compete w/other nations

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

U.S.S. Maine & Oregon

U.S. built modern battleships like the Maine & the Oregon.

The new ships made the U.S. the world’s largest naval power.

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Surplus U.S. was producing more than Americans could consume…..

U.S. needed foreign trade. American businesses needed

markets for their products & raw materials for their factories

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Superiority of American Culture

The 3rd root of American imperialism was a belief that the people of the U.S. were better than the people of other countries

Believed they had a duty to spread their culture & Christian religion among other people.

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

U.S. Acquires Alaska

William Seward purchases Alaska , for the U.S., from Russia in 1867.

The price? $7.2 million!!

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

United States acquires Hawaii

The Background….. The Hawaiian islands had been

important to the U.S. since 1790’s. Merchants stopped there on their

way to China & India. In 1920’s, American missionaries

founded Christian schools & churches on the islands

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Hawaiian sugar plantations…

Because of American owned sugar plantations, by 1900, foreign laborers outnumbered Hawaiians 3 to 1

This weakened the influence of native Hawaiians.

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Sugar growers Powerful Hawaiian sugar growers called for the U.S. to annex Hawaii to avoid the tariffs.

In 1887, U.S. military forced Hawaii to let it build a naval base at Pearl Harbor….Hawaii’s best port.

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

HAWAIIANS LOSE CONTROL OF THEIR ISLANDS:

American business groups organized a revolt against Queen Liliuokalani

U.S. ambassador John L. Stevens helped them revolt.

Planters took control of the island They established a temporary

government Made American businessman

Sanford B. Dole the president

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

QUEEN LILIUOKALANI

In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii gave up her throne.

Hawaii was about to be taken over by the U.S

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

1898, HAWAII BECOMES A U.S. TERRITORY

Stevens urged U.S. government to annex Hawaiian Islands.

President Grover Cleveland refused unless majority of Hawaiians favored that.

1897, William McKinley became president

McKinley favored annexation. 1898, Hawaii became a U.S.

territory.

Questions/Main Ideas/ Vocabulary Notes/Answers/Definitions/Examples/Sentences

Summary (this is what I read in my own words)

How can we say this all in one or two sentences in our own words?

Questions, Comments, or Concerns for the good of the cause (I still do not understand…, I wonder…):

LEARNING GOALS Our goal is to Explain the economic and

cultural factors that fueled the growth of American imperialism.

Our goal is to Describe how the United States acquired Alaska.

Our goal is to Summarize how the United States took over the Hawaiian Islands.

WHAT DID WE LEARN TODAY?

HOW DOES THIS HELP US ACHIEVE OUR LEARNING GOALS?

ARE YOU READY TO GO? Clean-up your area

Follow classroom procedures for returning books, computers, and folders

Wait quietly to be dismissed

Push in your chair, final class of the day put chairs up

Have your homework written, agenda out, and ready to be signed at the door