Gimme+Gimme

Vocabulary 10.2

Queen Lili’uokalani

NOTES:

America was for a open door democracy. The Unites States wanted their piece of China as well as Russia, England, Austria, and ect. We want things to come from China, goods, and many other things.

Americans get sick of getting across the United States by going around the tip of South America. They thought they should make a canal that runs through the United States.

Banana Republic: A country that is ruled by another Country.

Hawaii grew sugar, bananas, and different fruit.

NOTES: Teddy Roosevelt he was kind of a loud mouth, opinionated, and abrasive. He was a republican, and they (the republican party) wanted to keep him out of their hair. So they put him in the one spot where he couldn’t get in the way, where he had no real power whatsoever. Vice President. The problem is the republicans put him in and the president dies. He gets shot. So Teddy becomes president, and that’s not what a lot of people wanted to see. Because now the guy can do whatever he wants. Now, McKinley was working on a few things. One of theses things was China, it just started opening up to foreign entities to come in there. China was cheap, people went there to trade stuff. There’s a problem though, Europe, British, etc are in China. America wants a piece of the access, so we decided on an open door access. Just caring about our pocket books. America wanted their fair share. The British got them hooked on odium to “be-friend” and get what they want (trading) from the Chinese. The boxers are a group in China, known as a Harmonious Riteous Fist. They got tired of all these foreign(s) messing up everything. The boxer rebellion started, the boxers rebel. It messes things up for all the people in China, but we still find a way to trade with them. Cheap labor and good markets. Now, We need a way to get places quicker. So, the Untied States starts thinking of building a canal through. They wanted to originally put the canal across Nicaragua. Before the senate voted on it, they got a card saying “Greetings from Nicaragua” with an exploding volcano on it. We decided to put it in panama, which was run by Cuba. They didn’t want to give it up, so we told the panamanians they should have a revolution against their government and we would help them out. They did so, we sent down some marines to help them out and we set up a government there. It was republic and tropical, so they called it the Banana Republic. But USA was not done. Hawaii had a lot of Americans living in this island. And they grew a lot of food, and they had sugar. The United States was getting sugar from Cuba, it was coming in really cheap. Sanford B. Dole lived on this island, he decided we should get rid of the queen and run it ourselves. If they threw her out they could become republic and they USA would adopt them and they’d make more money. They overthrow their queen and Dole become the Governor which is overtaken by the United States. The United States took it over for a Navel Base. Having all these places around the ocean was like having little pit stops for their ships.