Hawaii – a chain of 8 large and 100 small islands in the Pacific ocean, about 2000 miles west of California.
The Midway Atoll is part of a volcanic chain of islands, atolls, and seamounts that extends from Hawaii to the Aleutian Islands – called the Hawaii – Emperor Chain. The USA owns Midway Atoll.
William H. Seward purchased Alaska and Midway for the USA.
King Kamehameha I unified the Hawaiian Islands. Americans and Europeans began trading with the Hawaiian people around A statue of the king is decorated With leis on his birthday every year.
A field of sugar cane in Hawaii.
Queen Liliuokalani took away powers of American sugar planters in the 1890s.
American Samoa – an unincorporated territory of the USA.
The Boxer Rebellion – 1900 in Beijing, China
Foreign armies in Beijing, China
Treaty of Portsmouth recognized Japan’s control of Korea in return for a promise from Japan to stop expanding its borders. Russian leaders are on the far side of the table and Japanese leaders are on the near side of the table.
The Great White Fleet (1907) consisted of 16 new steel- hulled warships that steamed around the world, ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt, to show growing American power.