1. Visit Beautiful … Name: ___________________________________ Date: ___________ Pd.: ______
Directions: From the 1850s to the 1930s, the United States conducted military interventions
throughout Latin America and the Pacific during the era of overseas expansion and imperialism.
• Use Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher; an online app such as Canva, Adobe Spark,
Postermywall, Venngage, Crello, or another application to create a digital poster highlighting one
episode of imperialism from this era.
• You may choose for your poster to be in the format of either
a) a tourism poster emphasizing details about sights and scenes visitors would see during the
place and time of the imperial intervention, or
b) a movie poster for a film about that the events of that place and time. The poster needs to
include a catchy title, the “starring roles”, the “director” (individual most responsible for
coordinating the events), the “executive producer” (US president at the time), and the
“opening date” (when it happened).
1. Alaska, 1867 (Seward’s Folly)
2. Beijing, China, 1900 (Boxer Rebellion)
3. Colombia, 1904 (Panamanian Revolt)
4. Columbus, New Mexico, 1916 (Pancho
Villa’s raid)
5. Cuba, 1906-1909 (Second Occupation of
Cuba/Cuban Pacification)
6. Cuba, 1912 (Negro Rebellion)
7. Cuba, 1917-1922 (Sugar Intervention)
8. Dominican Republic, 1916-1924
9. Journey of the Great White Fleet, 1907
10.Guam, 1898 (Capture of Guam)
11.Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1903 (details of
lease agreement)
12.Haiti, 1915-1934
13.Havana, Cuba, 1898 (Cuban theater of
Spanish-American War)
14.Hawaii, 1893-1898 (annexation process)
15.Honduras, 1924-1925 (Banana Wars)
16.Manila Bay, Philippines, May 1, 1898
(Philippine theater of Spanish-American
War)
17.Mexico, 1916-1917 (Pancho Villa
Expedition)
18.Nicaragua, 1909-1910 (Estrada’s Rebellion)
19.Nicaragua, 1912-1925 (Mena’s Rebellion)
20.Nicaragua, 1926-1933 (Nicaraguan Civil
War)
21.Panama, 1904-1914 (Construction of
Panama Canal)
22.Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1913
(Philippine-American War)
23.Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1905 (Treaty
of Portsmouth)
24.Puerto Rico, 1900 (Foraker Act)
25.San Juan (Kettle) Hill, Santiago, Cuba, 1898
(Rough Riders during Spanish-American
War)
26.Tokyo, 1853 (Perry Expedition)
27.Venezuela, 1895 (Venezuela Crisis)
28.Veracruz, Mexico, 1914 (US intervention in
Mexican Revolution)
29.Virgin Islands, 1917 (Purchase of US Virgin
Islands)
• Share this poster on Google Classroom no later than 11:59 PM on Tuesday, 03/03/20.
10 points will be deducted each day late beginning at 12:00 AM on Wednesday, 03/04/20.
