Identify ONE transfer of control from a non-state to a state between 1750 and 1900. b) Identify ONE diplomatic process by which power in Africa was shifted among European nations between 1750 and 1900. c) Explain how the United States gained power in different parts of the world between 1750 and 1900.

a) Identify ONE transfer of control from a non-state to a state between 1750 and 1900.

During the 19th century, the United States continued taking land from indigenous peoples. One notorious

episode was the forced relocation of Eastern Woodlands in what is now Oklahoma. So many Native

Americans died from exposure, malnutrition, disease, and exhaustion that this forced migration became

known as the Trail of Tears.

b) Identify ONE diplomatic process by which power in Africa was shifted among European

nations between 1750 and 1900.

Europe had a long-standing relationship with Africa because of the slave trade. Although most European

countries had declared the importation of Africans as slave labor illegal by the early 1800s, Europeans

continued to export guns, alcohol, and other manufactured goods to Africa and import African natural

resources, such as palm oil, gold, and ivory. England desired palm oil in particular because it kept

European empires thriving throughout the African continent.

c) Explain how the United States gained power in different parts of the world between 1750 and

1900.

Economic considerations, as well as feelings of nationalism and cultural superiority, drove Americans’

desire for territorial conquest. A group of American planters overthrew Hawaii’s constitutional monarchy

in 1895, but the islands did not become a U.S. territory until 1900. In the meantime, the U.S. victory in

the Spanish-American War in 1898 brought Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines under U.S.

control. President Theodore Roosevelt was eager to expand U.S. influence throughout the WEstern

Hemisphere. The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that if countries in Latin

America demonstrated “instability,” the United States would intervene.