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The Search for New Global Markets
Explain how industrial overproduction drove American business leaders to seek overseas markets and raw materials.
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America Becomes a Global Power
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Analyze how international trade, military expansion, the Spanish-American War, and the Panama Canal established the United States as a world power.
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Learning standards covered
SS.5.7West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesExplain the concept of supply and demand in specific historic and current economic situations in the United States (e.g., slavery, oil, gas, Industrial Revolution, etc.).
SS.5.23West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesDemonstrate an understanding of major domestic and foreign developments that contributed to the United States becoming a world power. • Summarize key events and political leaders surrounding the Spanish-American War and the annexation of new territory. • Explain the United States involvement in Latin America and the role they played in the building of the Panama Canal. • Describe how the need for new markets led to the buildup of the Navy and the need for naval bases in the Pacific.