$$$, Guns or a Pen?

Chapter 20 GOAL: Evaluate the United States growing interest in the Pacific and in Latin America

Learning Goal 20.1:  Defend how and why the US gained new territory and expanded trade in the Asia-Pacific region

1.  $$$, Guns or a Pen? tour
Review of HOW and WHY we gained influence in the Asia-Pacific Region



2. What has been an effect of expansion? 

a modern story of an American territory 

(CBS, 60 minutes, January 19, 2010)