Blogs

Worked on Map and Presenting Projects.

Assigned Blog #5:

Taking Alaska
 - William Seward was Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.

  - Seward arranged for the U.S. to buy Alaska from the Russian for $7.2 million (1867)

  - In 1959, Alaska became a state.

Dollar Diplomacy is a term used to describe the efforts of the US to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.

Theodore Roosevelt began the foundation for Dollar

today we did blog discussions.

a lot of people talked about the Panama Canal

Alfred T. Mahan was a commander in the Navy, he persuaded Roosevelt to build 9 warships. He went to college at the Naval Academy

General John "Blackjack" Pershing was a genera

Today we finished up the last two tests that people had to take. Since i was done already i looked over my assigned blog so i would know it a little better for our blog discussion that we are doing right after the people got done taking their tests.

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Today we finally finished tests and did our blog discussion from last week.

Panama canal- pretty much everybody

1. we had a treaty with britain that we had to make a canal to cut across the land and not go around south america
2. started in 1904
3. 1880,french tr

blog discussions today...

blog topics:

• panama canal...a lot of it
• alvert mayhan
  • navel offficer
  • sea power
  • joined navy in late 1850's
  • served for over 40 years
  • wrote a book called "influence of sea power in history"
•  

took my test today

blog discussion

panama cannal

liz

make treaty ith france for a cannal

dalton

40 millon dallares 1904 to 1914

collin

1880 french tried to make but stoped

jorda v

had to get permission from colombia

derk

result is largley cut time it took to get