Coery said 2/24

Hello fellow classmates and Ms. Separ!
Today's date is Febuary 24th and I will share the information I recieved with the class.
Today's topic brought us back to 8th grade, where we learned about the United States and its interaction with the world.
In 1796 our first president (under the Consistution, before him were seven others) read aloud his farewell address in which he urged America to never get involved in foregin affairs. Pardon my French (Connally would call that racist), but that idea went down the shitter a couple of years later. :P Is that really French?
In 1823 James Monroe did the only one thing in his carrer - created the Monroe Doctrine. The document read, and I paraphrase, no other European country will meddle with the Americas or they will experience bodily harm; however, we will not bother the European countries. Basically, America told Europe to back off with a swithblade while Europe has a gun to America's head, but it wasn't all a stupid doctrine. At the time, Spain had it's eyes set on Latin America and America knew that the British and the Americas did not want Spain to take over Latin America, so America made themselves look tough by not mentioning that the British would help them. It sound like one of those dramatic scenes in an action movie that have people pointing guns at two different people at the same time. Bad example, but it works. :P
In 1845 now America plays the God card ("The power of Christ compels you") to explain why it wants to spread it's territories from coast to coast, because it was their "devine mission" to do so. The American people were so obbsesed with this idea that they called it the Manifest Destiny. So America simply said that God told them to murder some Natives and unreasonably slaughter thousands of bison. So we learned that in 1845, America had a streak of schizophrenia. :P
In 1846 there was a little war with Mexico and America. America won, and in return it got New Mexico and California. However, America tried not to act like a grime and gave Spain $15,000,000. US tried to act like a good country and not like a complete jerk like their pal Europe but it still failed. :P
In the 1890's America felt like taking over some of the islands in the pacific for the same reasons as Europe but capitalized the fact that they wanted to make money. One can relate this to the dutch colonies in the pacific back in the 1450's to 1750's period. Ha, I'm smart. :P
I think I forgot something interesting. Oh yeah, that stuff with Cuba and that stuff with pinapples in Hawaii. Give me a break. We'll start with Hawaii first. Why? Because I like Pinapples. :P
In the early 1800's there was some influence of Americas in the islands of Hawaii, except there were missonaries with nothing to do then to harrass the crap out of you about God, like Yankee fans with baseball. That all change due to one person called Mr. Dole. He went to Hawaii to grow pineapples. He made so much money, America told Dole to stage a coup in Hawaii. So Mr. Dole did, and he became President of Hawaii in 1894. Then he allowed America to annex him in 1898. Now you got to figure out what coup means, and I will give you one hint, and that it's not a 2-door car. :P
Oh, and America won Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war. Yeah it's tough to explain. :P
In 1904 we built the Panama Canal. we got the area around it by telling the native to revolt against Colombia and we backed Panama up. In 1999, we gave Panama back to Colombia. Ironic. :P
Next to the keyboard will be Amanda. I totally forgot if she went allready, but if she did than the next person will be David Freese. :P

Quiz: Create a change over time chart that describes US imperialism. Hand in tomorrow in class. Separ