Territory of Hawaii

As seen through Progressivism, the corruptions of large industries were exposed to the Commonwealth. Progressivisms brought out a true change to how America began to function, and through this purification, the United States began to focus on one main objective: international affairs. As the U.S. began to take over weaker nations in a plan to extend its own power through a military force, imperialism began to spread. This meant that other nations, along with the U.S, began to demonstrate their immense

ultimately claimed and colonized much of the known world, establishing guarded trade routes that traversed the Atlantic Ocean. These trade routes linked the raw resources of the colonized territories in Africa, Asia and South America with the profitable markets in Europe and Eastern North America. American Expansion in Hawaii: 1842-1898 by Sylvester K. Stevens credits Hawaii’s economy and business for the United States interest in such a diverse kingdom. Furthermore, Stevens discusses the missionaries and

missionaries, people strongly in favor of converting other people to Protestantism, aimed attention at North America by traveling west and attempting to convert the Natives. While, some churches challenged believes of new immigrants, and others traveled to Hawaii to implant Christianity there. Over time with an even greater pride, new organizations formed to travel abroad to convert countries like China, Syria, and India; as well as, areas in the African and Latin American continents. By the year 1902, there

expansion was like childbirth; the idea was exciting but when it come across to giving birth it messed everything up in the body. Imperialism is the policy in which stronger nations extend their economic, political, and/or military control over weaker territories. And it all started when Britain started expanding to other countries. When other countries like the US saw britain expanding to Africa, everyone wanted Africa

The Spanish-American War of 1898 changed the annexation views for the future, as well as the imperialism viewpoint. Leading up to the war, there was a numerous amount of reasons that could be called upon to place blame towards; however, there were multitudes of positive effects that came from the war strengthening the United States. Creating an environment for the people to support congress, commencing the war was mainly credited to the Newspaper Companies publishing Yellow Journalism into their

of Influence: an area or region over which a country has significant cultural, economic, military, or political influence Isolationism: policy of refraining from involvement in global affairs Expansionism: policy of growing a nation's physical territory or political influence Imperialism: policy of creating colonies in weaker nations in order to generate raw materials and have access to new markets Turner's Thesis: An idea advanced by historian Frederick

lands, to have new markets to sell goods in. Hawaii in the late 1800s, was already tied to the U.S through economic treaties, but was still it’s own country, but as American businessmen increasingly sought to control Hawaii’s natural resources and wealth, they pushed for the American government to annex the islands and bring them under their control. “These business people wanted Hawaii annexed to the U.S. This would get rid of taxes on goods from Hawaii and make a lot of money for Dole and his cohorts

Imperialism is the acquisition of new territories by a state and the incorporation of these territories into a political system through diplomacy or military force. The goals of imperialism, as seen by the Europeans and the United States, were to provide raw materials, harbors for vessels, and to purchase the surplus production of farms and factories, but the differences between them were based on motivation, acceptance, time, and ultimately size. The result of the Spanish-American War caused the

United States across the continent and beyond. The belief in manifest destiny caused the United States to expand from “sea to shining sea” (Bailey, Kennedy, and Cohen). In spite of obtaining more territory, it caused numerous problems as it led to the north and south disagreeing on whether the new territory should be a free state or not. Subsequently, expansionism came to a halt and would not resume until after the Civil War has concluded. Ensuing the horrendous events of the Civil War, reconstruction

was content with its isolationist views. Until, the United States started thinking more of their political values and their belief in being “ordained by God to expand its territory,” which I believe is ridiculous but they were very religious 100 years ago. They believed God gave them the right and ability to obtain territories and expand west and south. Many business leaders and political men agreed with these ideals and intended utilize foreign countries for their raw materials. This would result