Map by Wyatt Stafford _ Student - WillowSpringHS

Alaska, USA

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:01:01 UTC

Purchased Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million on march 30th 1867

Samoa

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:05:03 UTC

Became a US territory by deed of cession starting in 1900

Midway Atoll, United States Minor Outlying Islands

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:11:15 UTC

Captain N.C. Brooks claimed midway for the United States under the Guano Island Act of 1856 which authorized american to inhabit uninhabited islands temporarily to obtain Guano

Hawaii

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:14:08 UTC

President McKinley signed a joint resolution annexing of the islands much like texas because the naval base there would prove to be very useful

Philippines

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:15:49 UTC

Spain ceded its colony of the Philippines to the United States after the treaty of Paris

Puerto Rico

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:18:16 UTC

On July 25 1898 16,000 US troops invaded Puerto Rico at Guánica asserting they were liberating the inhabitants from Spanish Rule

Guam

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:20:19 UTC

On june 21st 1898 the United States captures Guam in a bloodless landing and the Treaty of Paris formalized the handover of the territory

Panama Canal, Panama

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:37:06 UTC

Gained via the Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty of 1903 which provided the US with a 10 miles long strip of land for the canal with the US giving a one time $10 million payment to Panama

China

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 13:40:33 UTC

The US government intervened because at the time foreign powers had divided China into pseudo territories and worried they had no significant piece for themselves

U.S. Virgin Islands

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 19:59:00 UTC

Obtained with a formal transfer of islands between the US and Denmark on March 31st 1917 along with payment of $25,000,000

Japan

wjstafford — 2023-11-28 20:05:25 UTC

On july 8th 1853 an American Commodore led his four ships to tokyo bay seeking to re-establish trade between Japan and the western world for the first time in 200 years