Posted by 4Danielle on November 20, 2009 at 11:00am
chapter ten.why do countries colonize? natural resources, economic resources, make them stronger, and military bases, gain land for possible colonizations, opens markets throughout the world-trade, refueling stations.(hawaii was a good fueling station)what is emperializm;it's countries that are stronger that take over weaker countries.why do the US stay isolationist until the late 1900's?isolatetion; not helping any people and keeping to themselves.we wanted to avoid foreign wars, we had a weak army and navy,we had to build up the us firsta.industyb.governmentc. internal improvements.we had the slavery issue in the deal with civil war and reconstruction, the two oceans kept us geographically isolated.a. the lack of technology.we had "the west" to settle, we had vast natural recourceshere in the us,followed President Washington's advice.a. "stay out of foreign wars and alliance"The story Purch of Alaskait was originally owned by Russia.they then decided to sell russia, they thought it would cause a war with us.great britain wasn't really interested in it, so we just bought it.sewert, purchase was like an ice box. because he was putting so much money into it.
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