This week, a lecture about the U.S. expansion and Hawaii.

Johnson County Community College professor Ty Edwards teaches a class about the expansion of the United States during the Spanish-American War and the acquisition of Hawaii.

Americans with U.S. military support from Pearl Harbor over through the Hawaiian government,

the native Hawaiian leader at the time, and the president at the time, President Harrison

supported adding Hawaii as territory in the United States. However, Congress doesn't get

it done before he leaves office. The next president opposes it, and Hawaiians vocally opposed it.

Professor Edwards also examines the goals of the U.S. in gaining new territory and the debates the time about having an overseas empire.

This lecture is from 2019.

All right, today we are talking about U.S. Empire abroad.

And I'm going to start with the question like always, so let's start with the question.

So the question for today is why did the U.S. become a global empire?

Okay, why did the U.S. become a global empire?

Okay, why did the U.S. become a global empire? Okay. Why did the U.S. become a global empire?

Okay. Why did the U.S. become a global empire?

Okay. Before we get too far, I want to start with the first slide here.

This is a political cartoon from Puck Magazine in 1899, and because this text is super small, I typed it up for you here.

So it says, school begins. Uncle Sam to his new class in civilization.

Now, children, you've got to learn these lessons whether you

want to or not. But just take a look at the class ahead of you and remember that in a little

while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are. All right, so it might be hard for you to see,

but the students are labeled Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. And then these are supposed to be

students that are named for the states that were already part of the United States. And then if

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