World War I
By: Paige Draughan block 4
2 political opposing sides
Isolationists- Felt the U.S should not get involved.
Expansionists- Felt that the U.S should expand
- The expansionists won
- The US has expanded from sea to shining sea
- now we looked to China and Japan
- The US traded with China
- But Japan was isolated from the west
- President Mckinley sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan to ask to open 2 ports
- Japan did out of fear
- Imperialism was created when all the nations tried to control weaker countries
Seward's first claim
- Secretary of State, William H. Seward, who was appointed By Abraham Lincoln, saw America owning Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific.
- He started from Alaska to Russia in 1867
- After congress approved of the 7.2 million purchase of Alaska
- which was a good price since its twice the size of Texas
- so Seward signed a treaty with Russia
- people made fun of him for buying a ice box
- also known as polar bear garden
- then they found natural resources such as oil and gold
- In 1912 Alaska became a American territory
America looks to the Pacific
- Seward looked towards islands in the Pacific as a stop of ships from China
- He acquired two islands but needed a bigger security for the U.S
- Hawaii caught the U.S eye because of its 8 chain of islands
- in 1970 we started to trade with Hawaii
- since more Europeans and Americans started landing on the islands
- they also brought disease like the Native Americans