1. Call to Order Look at the bar graph below and answer the questions that follow. 1.What is an export? 2.How did the value of United States Exports change between 1870 and 1920?

2. Factors influencing Global Interdependence Railroads and communication technology Growing naval power needed places to dock their boats. Alfred T. Mahan argued that a good navy needs several bases around the world. Frederick Jackson Turner argued that America needed a new “frontier”. Manifest destiny still exists. Paternalistic view of America – America is the “parent” of other countries and needs to take other countries under its wing.

3. China China had been dividing into “spheres of influence” Secretary of State John Hay wanted an “open door policy” in which all countries would have equal access to all of China Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was a group of Chinese natives who revolted against the Manchu Dynasty (ruling emperor) and the Western Powers. Hay expanded the Open Door Policy to preserve the boundaries of China.

5. How would you feel if you were a… Citizen of China during the Boxer Rebellion?

6. Japan Japan had an intense modernization program Theodore Roosevelt mediated the peace agreement after Japan won the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Japan would be able to annex Korea as long as they left the Phillipines alone. Relationship was strained after San Francisco schools segregated Japanese Students in 1900s. Theodore Roosevelt created the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907, which ended school segregation but restricted Japanese Immigration.

7. Primary Documents

8. How would you feel if you were a… Japanese immigrant living in San Francisco in 1900?

9. Hawaii Sugar plantations were very successful. US put a protective tariff on imported sugar to protect Americans. American planters who had moved to Hawaii and others carried out a successful revolution against the Hawaiian ruler. Grover Cleveland did not take Hawaii then because there was still a great number of Hawaiian natives who did not want it annexed (added on) During the Spanish-American War, Hawaii became an American possession.

10. How would you feel if you were an American planter living in Hawaii while protective tariffs were put on your crops?

11. Exit Ticket 1. Which statement best summarizes the Open Door Policy ? a. the United States should have its own sphere of influence in China b. Japan should be excluded from trading with China c. China should be punished for its support of the Boxer rebellion d. All countries should be granted equal trading rights in China

12. Exit Ticket 2. President Grover Cleveland rejected the effort to annex Hawaii because? a. the islands were not particularly productive b. the United States did not have the naval power to protect the islands c. passage of the McKinley tariff made Hawaii unprofitable d. a majority of native Hawaiians opposed annexation to the United States

13. Exit Ticket 3. The policy of imperialism in the U.S. from 1890 to 1910 was largely the result of? a. demands for commercial expansion b. the theory of isolation c. a desire to build up a colonial empire d. a widespread desire to become a world power

14. Exit Ticket 4. In his book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890), Alfred T. Mahan argued which of the following? a. that colonial possessions are a drain on the nation’s resources b. that a strong merchant marine is less important than a strong navy c. that naval bases are unnecessary for the protection of colonial possessions d. that great empires are based on naval supremacy