Student Learning Map

  • Topic:America Becomes a World Power
  • Subject(s):Social Studies
  • Days:8
  • Grade(s):11
Key Learning: The United States interest in expansion and economic development led the nation to extend its influence over the areas of the Caribbean, Central America, South America and the Pacific.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

What motivated the United States to become imperialistic and enter the race for colonial territory? What political, social, legal and economic changes were brought about by the acquisition of additional foreign territory from beyond the continental United States?

   
Concept:

Reasons for american expansion abroad

Concept: Imperialism and foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere
Concept: Imperialism and foreign policy in Asia and the Pacific
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How did Manifest Destiny and the Monroe Doctrine influence U.S. foreign policy in the 1800's?

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What motivated the United States to acquire additional territory beyond the our borders?

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Why were we interested in acquiring Alaska? Hawaii?

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How did the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine impact Latin America?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why did we go to war with Spain in1898? What was the outcome?

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Should we have gone to war with Spain? Should we have kept the territory that we acquired?

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Why was American opinion divided over Cuban independence?

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Why was the United States interested in keeping Puerto Rico? the Philippines?

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Why was the United States interested in building a canal in Panama?

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Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why was the Open Door policy in China promoted by the United States?

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What was the international response to the Boxer Rebellion? American response?

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What was the aftermath of the Philippine-American War?

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What were the results of Roosevelt's negotiations with the Japanese and the Russians in Portsmouth, New Hampshire?

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Additional Info:

History Alive, Unitedstreaming.com, word walls, graphic organizers, audio-visual materials, transparencies, Skillbuilders: maps, graphs, charts, time-lines, reading study guides, workbook exercises from The American Odyssey Chapter 7-4 and 10-1.

Resources:

Vocabulary Report

  • Imperialism -
  • Platt Amendment -
  • Emilio Aguinaldo -
  • Philippine-American War -
  • protectorate -
  • Queen Lililuokalani -
  • John Hay -
  • Seward's folly -
  • commonwealth -
  • Open Door Policy -
  • yellow journalism -
  • Alfred T Mahan -
  • Boxer Rebellion -
  • annexation -
  • Insular cases -
  • Roosevelt Corollary -
  • cultural superiority -
  • Russo- Japanese War -
  • Treaty of Portmouth -
  • Monroe Doctrine -
  • Panamanian Revolution -
  • manifest destiny -
  • territorial integrity -
  • Philippe Bunau-Varilla -
  • dollar diplomacy -
  • Pancho Villa -
  • Roosevelt Corollary -
  • Albert Beveridge -
  • Emilio Zapata -
  • J.J.Pershing -
  • Rough Riders -
  • San Juan Hill -
  • Jose Marti -
  • battle of Manila Bay -
  • General Weyler -
  • Treaty of Paris -
  • De Lome letter -
  • William McKinley. -
  • USS Maine -
  • Rough Riders -
  • San Juan Hill -
  • Battle of Manila Bay -
  • Treaty of Paris -