Watched Ally's group's video for the ch9 presentations...finally....looks like we'll be done with that today. then we'll skip back (or farward) to the ch10 blog discussions. we get candy if we answer bruns's questions right.
wilson, taft, roosevelt, and debbs.
wilson won because he was a democrat and the republican party was divided against itself with roosevelt vs. taft.
roosevelt was unhappy with taft because he gave land back from reservations to the public.
i won grape nerds with the 16th amendment, taft's greatest accomplishments as pres, which was graduated income tax.
wilson lowered tarriffs (underwood act), passed the federal reserve act and the clayton anti-trust act, etc. and passed 3 amendments. the 17th (allowed common people to elect senetors), 18th (prohibition), and 19th (women's right to vote)
roosevelt called his presidential platform the ....square deal, apparantly. meaning he wanted to give everyboday a fair chance. dena and i each got an extra laffy taffy for saying the bully pulpit, even though we both already answered a question already.
Causes for imperialism in the 1800s. -
imperialism = building an empire - one country taking control of less powerful countries, either economically or physically. like a political monopoly, but not really.'
Top countries at this time were the USA (not at the top at this time) G.Britain (at the top), Russia, France (3rd). Spain (dwindling), Germany (2nd), and Japan (quickly arose to having power to avoid being taking over) tidbit- roosevelt won the nobel peace prize for being the mediator to end the russia-japanese war....anyways, these are the countries who went out and imperialized other countries, mainly in asia and africa.
so... reasons are: 1. power and prestige.. 2. natural resources... 3.land space and riches/colonization.. 4. refueling places. 5. military bases..
sidetrack- bruns says if puerto rico becomes a state, then his idea if for a big red star to go in the background of the white stars, and it would represent whatever state you called home.
imperializing was not a very nice thing.to do, but oh well, says they.
Phillipines is the islands, Filipinos are the people living there.
America wanted to help island people, and that was there excuse for imperializing- to civilize and christionize.
Taking Alaska -
our secretary of state purchased Alaska in 1867 from russia for 7.2 million dollars, which was pretty cheap for that much land (came down to 2 cents an acre) and people thought it was stupid because it was cold and not even touching america. became a military base for a while. population growth was slow until gold was disovered and people started moving up because the land was really cheap and there was a lot of natural resources, including oil.
out of time. picking up with the taking of hawaii tomorrow.
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