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Hawaii's Future Tied to History
Middle schoolers investigate Hawaii's history to help them explain how a Reorganization Act may affect its residents. students track the region's history from statehood, to kingdom, to human settlement.
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Immigration and Identity
Learners will analyze four historical events: The Annexation of U.S. Southwest, The Mexican Revolution, The Great Depression, and World War II. They determine how each event affected immigration to the U.S. from Mexico and Central...
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Imperialism Political Cartoon Assessment
Students work from topics provided by the teacher to create a political cartoon that illustrates imperialism throughout the world, focusing on that which led up to World War One.
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Imperialism and Expansion: Part 1
Students explore the era of imperialism and expansion of the United States. In this American history lesson, students play a game regarding the U.S. attempts to expand the nation in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Imperialism
In this U.S. history worksheet, high schoolers read assigned textbook pages regarding Imperialism and respond to 45 short answer questions.
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Imperialism and Expansion: Part 2
Students explore the concept of American Imperialism. In this American foreign policy instructional activity, students take notes on the Spanish-American War and foreign policy practices of the United States in the late 1800s.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Hawaiian Annexation
Read about the annexation of Hawaii and how it was an on-and-off-and-on policy. See the influence of the American planters in the governmental workings of the Hawaiian monarchy.
University of Oregon
University of Oregon: Mapping History: Alaska and Hawaii
On this map you can see Alaska and Hawaii in relation to the contiguous United States and read brief text about their purchase/annexation, territorial status, and addition as states.
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Hawaiian Kingdom: The u.s. Occupation
Article describing United States presence in the Hawaiian Islands from the 1890s to the present with links to outside resources that document the intervention, occupation, and annexation of these islands.
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Etc: Territorial Growth of the United States, 1783 1900
A map from 1911 of the United States showing the territorial acquisitions from the original states and territory established in 1783 to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 in which Germany and the United States divided the Samoan...
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Etc: Development of Amer Interests in the Pacific, 1791 1903
A map of the United States and Pacific Ocean showing the development of American interests in the Pacific from the early exploration of Oregon Country in 1791 to the formal annexation of the Midway Islands and the Panama Strip in 1903....
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Etc: Acquisition of Territory by the United States, 1783 1917
A map from 1922 of the United States showing the acquisition of territory from 1783 to the purchase of the Dutch West Indies (Virgin Islands) in 1917. This map is color-coded to show each of the acquisitions with map notations giving...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Territories of the United States, 1900
A map from 1909 showing territories added to the United States: Alaska (1867), Hawaii by annexation (1898), and Puerto Rico and the Philippines after the Spanish-American War (1898).