U.S. Imperialism and the Great War

  

U.S. Imperialism and the Great War

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Digital History textbook:

America Becomes a World Power, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=10&smtid=2 (Links to an external site.)

World War I, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=12&smtID=2 (Links to an external site.)

In preparation for the midterm exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

the Panama Canal; The Influence of Sea Power Upon History;  the annexation of Hawaii; the Spanish-American War; Emilio Aguinaldo; US intervention in Caribbean and Latin America; Alvin Cullum York; the Lusitania; the Sedition Act

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen (1898), http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/liliuokalani/hawaii/hawaii.html (Links to an external site.)

The Anti-Imperialist (1899), https://books.google.com/books?id=-UozAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+anti-imperialist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjemvOu9uTaAhUEzGMKHTCTDhkQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q&f=false

George Ade, The Sultan of Sulu:  An Original Satire in Two Acts (1903), https://books.google.com/books?id=iksMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22the+sultan+of+sulu%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHo-C-8eLaAhWKdd8KHeKjCsEQ6AEIMTAC#v=onepage&q&f=false (Links to an external site.)

Sui Sin Far, Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912), https://books.google.com/books?id=yV0RAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false (Links to an external site.)

"The St. Mihiel Drive" (ca. 1918),The St. Mihiel Drive (Links to an external site.)

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations