U.S. Expansion Booklet
Date Assigned: 3/2/16
Date Due:
3/16/16
Create your own booklet about this time period. Make it attractive, colorful, neat,
creative and informative. Follow the directions carefully and use glue, scissors,
construction paper, markers, etc. to decorate your booklet and make it shine!
1. Use a shutter fold to create your booklet.
2. Write your name, class period, and date on the back side.
3. Write a title on and glue a large, colored drawing (your own drawing only)
illustrating imperialism, across the front of your booklet.
4. Complete the timeline and glue it to the top of the inside back panel.
-U.S.S. Maine exploded
-Queen Liliuokalani gave up Hawaiian throne
-Armistice with Spain
-Cubans rebelled against Spain
-Treaty of Portsmouth signed
-Commodore Perry sent to Japan
-President Wilson sent navy to Veracruz
-U.S. bought Alaska
-Panamanians declared independence from Colombia
-Filipinos began fight for independence from U.S.
-Boxer Rebellion
-Panama Canal opened
5. Complete the map and glue it in the middle of the inside back panel.
*Color & label the following using pgs. RA2,4,5, 633, 644, 649
*Cuba
*Puerto Rico
*Hawaii
*Panama Canal Zone
* Alaska
*Samoa
*Philippine Islands
*Japan
* China
*Pacific Ocean
*Guam
*Spain
6. Complete the graphic organizer (Roots of Imperialism) and glue it to the
bottom of the inside back panel – Read Search for Materials (pg. 635), “Lifting
Up”the World (pg. 637) and A Stronger Navy (pg. 637)
7. Use the picture frame sheets to make title pages. Write a title for each of the
following topics: Alaska & Hawaii, Spanish-American War, China & Japan,
Latin America & Panama Canal and draw your own picture to represent this
section.
8. On the side panels, glue or staple the quarter sheets (one on top of the other)
in the following order:
A. Picture with Picture Frame Card ( your own drawing)
B. Terms Cards – highlight each term
C. Who Cards – highlight each person’s name
D. What Cards – write the question and highlight it
9. Alaska & Hawaii – Pgs. 634 - 639
Terms: Isolationism, Expansionism, Imperialism
Who:
William Seward, Queen Liliuokalani, Matthew Perry
What: Why was the U.S. interested in a relationship with Japan?
How did the U.S. acquire Alaska?
Why was it not a “folly”?
Why the U.S. was interested in Hawaii?
How was it acquired?
10. China & Japan – Pgs. 640 - 641
Terms: Sphere of Influence, Open Door Policy, Exploit
Who: John Hay, Boxers
What: What were European countries doing in China?
Why did the U.S. establish the Open Door Policy?
What was the reaction of the Chinese people?
How were Japanese-Americans treated?
Give an example of Roosevelt’s policy – “Speak softly but
carry a big stick”
11. Spanish-American War – Pgs. 642 - 646
Terms: Yellow Journalism, Territory, Protectorate, Platt Amendment
Who:
Rough Riders, Emilio Aguinaldo, George Dewey
What: How did Americans react to the revolt in Cuba?
How did the Spanish-American War begin? How did it end?
How did the U.S. treat each of Spain’s former colonies (Cuba,
Puerto Rico, the Philippines) after the war?
What did the Imperialists want and why?
12. Latin America & Panama Canal – Pgs. 647 - 651
Terms: Isthmus, Roosevelt Corollary, “Dollar” Diplomacy,
Who:
William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Francisco
Madero, Pancho Villa, John J. Pershing
What: Why did the U.S. want to build the Panama Canal?
How did it acquire the land to build the Panama Canal?
What did Latin Americans think of the U.S.A.?
Why was the U.S. interested in Latin America’s stability?
How and why did the U.S. intervene in Mexico’s affairs?