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    military, and economic control over weaker territories. Realizing that we needed to make a change, the United States started working towards the goal of practicing imperialism as well. To do this, our first few targets were Hawaii and Alaska. In 1867, we sought to buy Alaska because they had resources that we wanted, such as lumber and minerals. This was known as Seward’s Folly after the Secretary of State William Seward. In 1898, our desire of Hawaii was fulfilled when they agreed to annexation

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    Hawaii Vs America

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    The purchase of Alaska ended Russia's attempt to expand into the Pacific coast of North America. The United States of America wanted Hawaii because it was strategically located in the mid pacific. Both states are now widely visited for their snowy mountains and sunny beaches. There was a lot more than just purchasing Alaska and taking over Hawaii. Russian explorers had explored Alaska's coast and inward land in 1725. They found the land was filled with many rich natural recourses. For

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    the dream of manifest destiny did not die when the Americans reached the west coast with the union still in tact after the civil war and a strong with industrial might America in the later half of the 1800s once again the idea to gain additional territory and spread the ideals of the american people resurfaced. Leading to the question how did American Imperialism diverge from the other imperial powers especially Britain during the time, American Imperialism in the 1800s in east Asia differed as it

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    Winona LaDuke argument about the militarization of the land own by the people of Hawaii affect land ownership and the human rights. In the past, the survival of traditional Hawaiians was focus on a set of relationships around land and sea operations. Before the coming of missionaries, land was owned by the Hawaiians without any kind of western ownership, such as documentations. The people of Hawaii worship their land and believe that land is be owned by God. Their traditional mindset make them to

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    Hawaii Research Paper

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    Hawaii is a vast and beautiful state with many cultures. This is the 50th State in the United States of America and is located in the North Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is very different from all of the other states because it is made up of 7 Islands. This amazing state is one of the first states where people grew coffee. Hawaii is known for their beautiful environment. Surfing is a sport that began in Polynesia, but the first Polynesian settlers to land in Hawaii probably had practiced a simple version

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    some way, was affected by the bombing at Pearl Harbor. Especially the citizens of America. Japanese-Americans were targeted against, the people of the mainland started to gain a different attitude towards Hawaiians while citizens living in the territory of Hawaii started to feel the new sense of American pride in them. Once the attack happened, Japanese-Americans were already being targeted. United States government set restrictions on Japanese-Americans when it came to traveling and how long they could

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    American Imperialism

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    American empire dominating the Caribbean, Central America, and the Pacific….Seward imagined a canal across Central America,” (Visions of American Empire 1). Many of these visions eventually came true, as America came to be in possession of many territories in those areas and the Panama Canal was built by president Roosevelt later on. This imperialist mindset was caused by competition between nations: every nation wanted to be more powerful than the other, and land translated into power. According

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    On July 1898, Hawaii was officially annexed to the US after a valiant struggle. Ever since the Reciprocity Treaty was canceled out by the McKinley Tariff, many people have been yearning for annexation, such as sugar planters. Queen Liliuokalani, who was the last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, was overthrown by Americans whose main goal was to make Hawaii a US territory. Queen Liliuokalani and her brother, King Kalakaua, opposed the annexation. However, the foreigners, known as the Committee of

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    parallelism to try and get more people to support him. To begin, towards the end of the speech Roosevelt states, “There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger.”, Roosevelt starts the sentence with a metaphor, but continues to use the phrase, our, saying, our people, our territory, and our interests, creating attention for what he is about to say next, witch is what makes this quote parallelism. Lather in the speech

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    underwent its stage of isolationism and intended to stick to it, however, as industrialization began, the idea of manifest destiny arose once again. With that, America would then begin to annex other locations of the world, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Philippines. America would dominate the Philippines after a “splendid little war” with Spain. America had intended to remain neutral during the first world war, also known as “the war to end all wars” conceived by European disputes and receive

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