CREATE YOUR VIDEO AND MAKE SURE IT IS IN YOU GOOGLE EARTH FOLDER WITH YOUR LINKS.

SAVE THE ENTIRE FOLDER INCLUDING LINKS, AND VIDEO TO YOUR HARD DRIVE OR NETWORK FOLDER.

UPLOAD THAT FILE INCLUDING ALL OF YOUR WORK TO MOODLE.

Introductory Assignment:

Copy and paste into Word, or print the following article and highlight reasons for and reasons against expanding.  Then answer the questions in Part II that follow.  It may also be located in Moodle.

Upload or save your version to Moodle.  Or complete it in Word and print it out.

Let's create a map of where the United States Expanded!

... coming on Tuesday...

**ALL WORK MAY BE UPLOADED TO MOODLE TO SAVE AT ANY TIME IN ORDER TO WORK ON THIS AT HOME OR OUTSIDE OF CLASS TIME.**

Research Imperialism here: http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html and http://www.hippocampus.org/US%20History%20II

Collect summary information and write 3-4 sentences about how the United States expanded to:

YOUR NOTES SHOULD INCLUDE: WHY we were interested in this territory, HOW we become involved, LONG TERM impact for the USA

• Alaska
• Midway Islands
• Samoan Islands
• Spanish-American War (Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba)
• Wake Island
• Hawaii
• Panama Canal Zone
• Palmyra
• Virgin Islands

As you research these places, please also find 2 images representing how and why the US was interested in these territories.  Do NOT copy and paste the picture.  Rather, find the image source and paste the code into your notes.  You will need this later. 

• To get the image code from a website, RIGHT CLICK the image, click on PROPERTIES, then COPY the entire "ADDRESS:(URL)" and PASTE that into your notes.  You will need this information to do the Google Earth project.

Google Earth Component

Once you have gathered your information, open up Google Earth (link is on your desktop - this is a free download if you need the program at home.)  You will be creating a virtual map of your locations from where the US expanded.

You will be searching for the locations you researched.  Pushpin indicators locating the places and put your summary information and images there.  In order to get you started, there is a YouTube tutorial here: http://youtu.be/gcCxheJPnyw .  If you are working on this at school, please locate the same video here: http://ttc.gcsny.org/safevideos/Video.aspx?id=gcCxheJPnyw .

Panama Canal Zone

After finishing your information, please indicate the Path (button near top of screen ) that a ship would have to take to get from New York City to San Francisco, California prior to the Panama Canal being built.  Then indicate a different path indicating the route a ship could take after the Panama Canal was built. 

How to Submit

When you are finished, you will be asked to record a video of all of the work you have done through Google Earth.  Tutorial will follow.