US Imperialism - Geography

Ch. 27/28 + Map Quiz (Second Semester)

Japan

• Commodore Perry

• denied Open Door Policy

• 1853

Jarvis Island/Baker + Howland Islands

• Guano Island Act of 1856

• 1857

Johnston Islands

• Guano Island Act of 1856

• 1858

Alaska + the Aleutian Islands

• purchased by Sec. of State William Seward

• purchased 1867 from Russia

• Statehood in 1959

• largest territory acquired post Civil War

Midway Islands

• midway between US and Asia

• fueling station

• key location in WWII

• 1867

Samoan Islands

• fueling station - 1878

• divided between US and Germany - 1899

Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba

• Spanish American War (1898)

• terms of Treaty of Paris

• 1898

Wake Island

• formerly Guano Island

• 1899

Hawaiian Islands

• Sanford B. Dole

• Constitution of 1877 (bayonet constitution)

• Queen Liliuokalani

• Republic - 1894

• Territory - 1898

• State - 1959

Panama

• formerly a section of Columbia

• built Panama Canal (1904-1914)

Nicaragua, Honduras

• Banana Wars

  • Standard Fruit Company, United Fruit Company

• 1930s

Haiti, Dominican Republic

• annexed Hispaniola (1868) - Andrew Johnson

• US occupied Haiti from 1915-1934

• US occupied DR from 1916-1924

• Yankee Lake

Mexico (Vera Cruz)

• series of rebellions 1911-1919

• Tampico arrests of US sailors

• Pancho Villa

Palmyra Islands

1912

US Virgin Islands

1917 - Denmark

China

• Open Door Notes

• treaty ports

• Boxer Rebellion

Japan

• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)

• Negotiated by Theodore Roosevelt

• Gentlemen’s Agreement

Russia

• Russian Revolution of 1917

• lost Russo-Japanese War