Friday November 11

[8Brittany]

No blog assignment this week, work on your WW1 project. Have either Tara, Marielle, or me talk about the battle in Iraq and baghdad.Ch. 10Section 1:*Why did the US and other countries look to imperialism?~ money, resources, military/naval bases.~ brings military power and prestige to your country~ Naval bases and refueling stations~$$$$-For natural resources as well as opening new markets to sell your goods(trade)~Belief in cultural superiority-White Man's Burden-McKinley:"to take them all and to educate the Filipinos,and uplift and civilize and Christianize them."~Taft: We must help our" our little brown brothers" on th Philippines.~We have to help them because they can't help themselves.aren't smart enough, black people aren't assmart as white.*Taking Alaska.~we bought it from Russia for $7.2 million. People thought we take Alaska and then we take all of it(Canada).~British was concern because they thought we would take Canada they owned canada.*Taking Hawaii.~ Spanish were there in the 1550's is believed but there is no evidence.~ There are two reasons why the US wanted Hawaii~Sugar cane~missionary work.~Queen Liliuokalani-last queen of Hawaii-1893.~She tried to reduce foreign influence in Hawaii~William Mckinley annexed Hawaii, the president before Mckinley wanted Queen Liliuokalani to keep control of Hawaii.Section 2:The Spanish American War*By 1900, Spain was a dwindling empire~Philippines, Guam, Cuba,Puerto Rico and a few colonies in Africa(Morocco and Western Sahara)*The US had been interested in Cuba for a long time~US tried to buy Cuba in 1854, Spain said they would rather see Cuba sink they give it to the US.*Cubans had been revolting against Spain frequently(1868,1878,1886,1895) wanting independence.*jose Marit~cuban nationalist~ 1 of the reasons america went to war with spain because they were destroying american property~Jose Marti and the cubans did a lot of the destroying American property and they made it look like spain did it, because he knew that if cubans had a chance they needed the US to join the war.