HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Guerrilla Warfare, William Jennings Bryan, Samuel Gompers
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One of biggest events in 18th century was imperialism. Race of european countries to carve up the world. Depression of 1893 (appeared in lecture many times. hint: important) Us launched series of interventions in latin america. Wanted to build a canal through panama so they could get thru atlantic to pacific easier. But colombia would not comply (bc colombia is attached to panama) Going to discuss us intervention in asia. Boom in sugar plantation with american businessmen setting up plantations in hawaii. Then, mckinley"s taxes dropped the price of sugar. Asians couldn"t even vote but were used on the plantations as immigrant workers. They were imported from china and other parts of asia. Hawaiian queen liluokalani - opposed hawaii being annexed from the. Grover cleveland refused to sign the annexation treaty bc he knew something was weird. Most hawaians opposed annexation of the us. Eventually, hawaii got annexed to the us.
