Monday, May 5th

Went over US map.
New Law for prayer being legal in a case in NY board meetings
Nigeria Kidnapping - Boko Haram thinks Western education is a sin - armed forces say they will look for them till they find them but people don't buy it

Imperialism- Major European powers were trying to take over all parts of Africa
Latin America- more of there countries were independent and being left alone opposite of everything else

1898 -Spanish War- we won , lasted 3 months, we got a lot of land across our boundary, Cuba(kinda), Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippians,

1914-1918 WWI- fighting for colonies in Europe, Asia, Africa , war of land grabbing for the winner , Germany was ripped apart, Hitler blamed Jews and government , Germany lost land and Hitler drove him to take over

When did we get control? How did we? Do we still have it? What is the current status? Location?

Hawaii
- most recent state we have
- Polynesian settlement, British arrival, unification, Euro-American and Asian immigrates, the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy, a brief period as the Republic of Hawaii, and admission to the United States as Hawaii Territory and then as the state of Hawaii.
-August 21, 1959
- It was an illegal overthrow led by Caucasian businessmen many of whom were citizens of the kingdom of Hawaii supported by the US government. Queen Liliuokalani did not want to risk loss of life so she did not fight the overthrow.Through Annexation
- we still have control, it is a US state , vote with US
-pacific ocean islands

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