11/12 - 11/16

[2Chloe]

Monday- Presentation Work Day

Tuesday- Presentation Work Day

Wednesday- Presenttions Started

Group 1

Aquring Alaska and Hawaii-

Alaska-

• March 30, 1867
• Treaty with Russia
• Treaty approved April 9
• Territory- 1912
• State- January 3, 1959
• $7,200,000
• 49th state

Hawaii-

• 1830's- Sugar industry introduced
• Many treaties with the US
• American sugar planters took over Hawaiian affairs
• Rover Cleavland- Treaty
• 1898- Congress aproved Hawaii's annexation
• 1959- Hawaii was part of US territory and made 50th state

Nobel Peae Prize-

• December 10, 1906
• Negotiations between Russia and Japan
• Unable to collect it in Norway
  • Donated the prize money

Group 2

Pancho Villa-

• Durango, Mexico
• Worked on Farms
• Took over household
• Mexican General
• Became an outlaw
• Leader of Calvary
• Govenor of Chihuahua
• 1900's- Killed 30+ Americans

Thursday-

Group 2- (Continued)

Pancho Villa- (Continued)

• January 1916
  • Executed 16 US citizens
  • Escaped into mountains
• March 1916
  • 17 Americans Killed
• 1923
  • Killed
  • Adolfo de la Hueta took over power

Mexican Revolution-

• Initial Goal
  • End Dictatoriship of Diaz
    • Resigned after 30 years of Dictatorship

Tampico Affair-

• Americans worked in oil fields
• We had thought we were on good terms with Mexico
• Mexican soilders held US sailors at gun point
  • US Sailors were going to put up oil
  • The US Sailors were put into jail
    • Released shortly after
• Invasion of Veracruz

Friday-

Group 3-

Assassination of William McKinley-

• Joined the military is 1861
  • Joined Congress afterwards
• 1901- Killed by an anarchist 
  • Would have survived until gangrene settled in
    • Died 8 days later
• Leon Frank Czolgosz killed McKinley
  • Steel Mill worker before killing
• McKinley was sceduled to visit the Pan American Exposition

Building of the Panama Canal-

• 1870's- French attempted to build a passage
• 1902- US purchased French assets
• Panama declared Independence from Columbia
  • US basically paid Panama to declare independence
• May 4th- started construction
  • Was to be 50 miles long
• French left machinary
  • US had to repair what they left
• Diseases-
  • Yellow Fever and Malaria
  • How they fought them
    
    • Standing Water
      • Got rid of Mosquitos
    • Oil
      • Sprayed onto standing water
    • Screens on Windows
      • Helped to keep bugs