1. Do Now: What were the goals of the Monroe Doctrine?
Learning Target: I can use a secondary source to understand the motives for the United States annexation of Hawaii and Alaska.
Do Now: What were the goals of the Monroe Doctrine?

2. Annexation:
adding to something larger, especially the incorporation of new territory into the domain of a city, country, or state.

3. Map of North America: What challenges might the United States face in trying to annex Hawaii and Alaska? Why should the U.S. get involved in annexing these two territories?

4. Activity You will be working in teams today with another table
Read and analyze your assigned document
Answer the questions that follow
You must than teach your other table about your document

5. Activity: Read the documents on imperialism in Hawaii and Alaska and complete the following:
U.S. Imperialism in Alaska
U.S. Imperialism in Hawaii
How did the U.S acquire Alaska?
What factors motivated the U.S. to acquire Alaska?
What was the initial (first) reaction and end result of the acquisition of Alaska?
**FIRST GROUP DONE GETS 10 POINTS**
Identify the abundant resource in Hawaii.
What led to an economic depression in Hawaii?
What was the determining factor in annexing Hawaii?

6. U.S. Annexation of Alaska
Purchased from Russia by William Seward for $7.2 million dollars
Widely criticized by American people
Turned out to be a great purchase due to Alaska’s natural resources of gold and oil

7. U.S. Annexation of Hawaii
U.S. overthrew Queen Lili
U.S. had business interests in Hawaii
1890 – McKinley Tariff raised the average duty of imports to roughly 50%.
1893 – American businessmen backed an uprising against Queen Liliuokalani.
Annexed in 1898.

8. Summary Question
Was the United States justified in annexing Hawaii? Explain.
How did imperialism impact the U.S.

9. Homework Question
How did the imperialism of Alaska and Hawaii impact the United States past and present? Explain.