Unit+4

//**Evaluate the quality of historical accounts based on the arguments they advance and the evidence the use.**//
 * Unit 4 America Reaches Outward**
 * Learning Targets:**
 * 1) **In the late 19****th** **Century, the U.S. Began a period of expansion.**
 * 2) **As a result of the United States' victory in the Spanish-American War, America became a world power with worldwide responsibilities and burdens.**
 * 3) **In the early 20****th** **Century, Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson developed their foreign policies in response to United States' new role in the world.**
 * Historical Perspectives and Interpretations**
 * Topic 1**
 * United States Imperialism**
 * 1) **Describe the causes of and major events associated with the United States becoming an imperial power in the late 19****th** **Century.**
 * Topic 2**
 * Early 20****th** **Century foreign policy**
 * 1) **Analyze the scope and evolution of various United States foreign policies in the early part of the 20****th** **Century by comparing them to the original Monroe Doctrine.**

Targets Project Learning Targets: • I dentify Queen Liliuokalani, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, George Dewey, and John Hay. • D escribe the historical significance of the Hawaiian Islands and Pearl Harbor. • By the late nineteenth century, the growing industrial economy of the United States was producing many more goods than the nation itself could consume. This **overabundance of industrial goods**   led the United States to look for new markets abroad. • European nations such as England, Spain, France, Russia, Portugal, Germany, and Belgium had already carved up Africa and large parts of Asia into colonies and "spheres of influence" by the late 1900s. To remain competitive, the United States reacted to **European imperialism**   by looking for a way to secure its own economic future through a policy of expansionism. Pre-project Set-Up (Copy this part to a New Document and Begin. Use this link: __[|http://theomahaproject.org/module_display.php?mod_id=93&review=yes#1302]__ ): 1. Definition of Imperialism (Mini-Essay). 2. Has the US ever tried to create a colonial empire? With all that you know, answer this question in 150 words. 3. Read the Hawaii-United States Treaty – 1826. Answer the questions. 4. How did the US treated the Hawaiians? Answer in 150 words. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">5. Read the TREATY OF RECIPROCITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM – 1875 and answer the questions. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Project: Using your summaries from above create a detailed, graphically supported video blog based on those summaries. Use the issues presented in the following website to enhance the opinions you present in your blog. Listen to the issues presented in http://hawaii-nation.org/. After conducting their research, and submitting their blogs, students will form teams to discuss in <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">**mini-Socratic Seminar groups**  <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;"> the following question. <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Should Hawaii be an independent nation or remain under the protection and unity of the United States of America? <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Conclusion: <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">**Documentary or Animated Comic Presenting the**  <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">__**10 Items Above**__
 * Unit Prompt:**
 * 1) **Compare and Contrast American Imperialism to European and Japanese Imperialism.**
 * 2) **Body (3)**
 * 3) **American Imperialism**
 * 4) **European Imperialism**
 * 5) **Japanese Imperialism**
 * 6) **Conclusion: How did Imperialism cause both World Wars?**
 * Formative Assessment: Annotated Bibliography (5-15 sources), Research-Based Outline,** **Mini-Essay (1-3 Pages)- What is Imperialism?**
 * Diagnostic Assessment: 3-10 Page Persuasive Essay**
 * Summative Assessment:**
 * Project Essential Questions:**
 * 1)  <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Do you think it's possible for a strong country to trade with a weaker country without controlling it?
 * 2)  <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">What are some benefits for the strong country if it does not use force to control the economies of its weaker trading partners?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Do you think the people of Hawaii wanted to become part of the United States? (150 Words)
 * 2) <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Read and summarize the events leading up to the overthrow of the Hawaiian queen. (150 Words)
 * 3) <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Do you think Americans agreed with the actions that took place in Hawaii that led to the queen being overthrown? (150 Words)
 * 4) <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Read and summarize President Grover’s message to congress. (150 Words)
 * 5) <span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT,serif;">Answer the Essential Question using the summaries you wrote. (500 Words)