1. America compared Imperialism

3. Between 1889 and 1904 the U.S. had divided Samoa with the Germans, annexed Hawaii, had taken the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico from Spain, and had also taken Panama Canal zone from Columbia.

4. Though conquest, purchase, or annexation, the American Empire came into being.

5. This brought about fierce resistance from the indigenous peoples as well as controversy on the home front.

6. Americans made assumptions about imperial responsibility that were conditioned by an awareness of distance from scenes of European conflict.

8. In 1934, a Division of Territories and Island Possessions was created within the Department of the Interior. However Guam, and Samoa were left to the Navy and the Panama canal with the Army.

9. In 1867 the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia.

10. After rioting in Cuba led to the American government to send the battleship Maine to Havana, Cuba, to protect American lives, the Main was sunk on February 15, 1898.

11. A month later, a court of inquiry determined that an external submarine mine had caused the explosion, and Spain was labeled responsible and war followed.

12. In 1915, Haiti became and American protectorate. This would be used to justify intervention in Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Dominican Rep.