Monday: work on presentation
Tuesday: work on presentation
Wednesday:
Acquiring Alaska and Hawaii/ Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize
- 1867 March 30
- Treaty with Russia
- 1959 January 3rd official state {49th state}
- $7,200,000
- Passes senate by one vote
- Increase the size of the united States by one vote
- Lots of gold
- Gateway to the Klondike gold field
- Now good for timber
- Oil mining
- Gold
- Wildlife
- Northern lights
Acquiring Hawaii
- 1830s sugar industry was introduced
- American missionaries and planters brought changes
- Constitutional monarch was established in 1840
- 1891 – queen Liliuokalani rises to the throne
- Group of sugar planters under Sandford Ballard dole overthrow queen Lili
- Entered in many political and economic treaties
- American sugar planters took over Hawaiian affairs
- Sanford b. dole planned to seize the thorn from the Queen w/ US support.
- The president sent a minister to restore the queen to her throne, but dole refused to step aside.
- 1899 The Spanish American War broke out and convinced congress to approve Hawaii’s annexation
- 1959 Hawaii was made into us territory and entered into the states as the 50th state
Roosevelts Nobel Peace Prize
- December 10 1906
- Treaty of port mouth – ended Russo/Japanese war
- Russo/Japanese war – disputes over resources
- Treaty of Portsmouth – Roosevelt intervenes and wanted both sides to accept peace
- Signed September 5 1905 in Kittery Maine
Peace Prize
- Given for worldwide excellent
- Unable to collect the award
- Donated it to WWI relief efforts
- First statemen – controversial
Thursday: present
Friday :
The assassination of William McKinley
The Building of the Panama Canal
- The French attempted to build a passageway from the Atlantic to the pacific in the 1880s
- Diseases such as yellow fever and malaria
- Other problems such as heavy rain and landslides
- The France abandoned the project in 1888
- In 1902 the united states purchase French assets in the canal zone
- This was heavily pushed by T.R.
- The total cost was around $40 million
- In the beginning the treaty over the right to build the canal, on what was then Columbian territory, was rejected
- Panama declared independence from the US.
- US started a treaty with panama
- Navy was sent to Panama, so Columbia would know we were there and wanted to build
- The Hay Herran treaty was signed in 1903
- This treaty allowed the US to use the Isthmus of Panama
- The Isthmus of Panama is now a narrow strip of land
The start of construction
- Even through the French failed in the 1880s, the US began work on May 4, 1904
- Th canal was to be 50 miles long
- Much of the left behind machinery from the French needed repair
- At the same time yellow fever and malaria was frightening off much of the workforce
Diseases
- The US combated tallow fever and malaria by:
- Oil
- Reduction in standing water
- Screens on windows
- Had to overcome these before we could start building
Spanish-American War
General weyler
- Named commander in 1896 when rebellion was in full swing
- Return Philippines to political order
- To win Cuba back
- end of 1897, 300,000 people relocated to reconcentration camps
- Successful movement
- Became cesspools of diseases, hunger, and starvation
Concentration camps (Causes)
- Americans felt sympathy for Cubans
- Spanish military commander instituted concentration camps
- Cubans rural population forcibly confined to garrison towns
- Thousand died from disease, starvation, and exposure
- Was supposed to stop Cubans from rebelling (didn’t work)
De lome Letter
- Enrique de Lome
- Wrote letter to government official
- In the American press
- Americans were outraged
- War fever spread
- De Lome informed US (his views)
- Public insult pushed McKinley into rethinking about helping Cuba
- Accelerated with the destruction of the Maine
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