US Imperialism begins

1.
a) desire for military strength
b) belief in cultural superiority
c) thirst for new markets
d) desire to fit in with European powers
e) annexation of Hawaii

2. d) America wanted to compete with european powers who had set the imperialist trend.
b) american's believed they had the responsiblity to spread Christianity and their culture to "inferior races."

3. Alaska, because people thought it was a useless wasteland.

4. The sugarcane industry was controlled by whites.

6. In the 1820's yankees founded christian schools and churches on the Islands, and began growing sugar cane which they sold to the US. By 1900 immigrants and whites outnumber natives 3 to 1. Over the next fifteen years sugarcane production increases 9-fold. In 1887 Pearl harbor is built. In 1898 congress proclaimed Hawaii an American territory, it became the 50th state in 1959