In-class #13: video "The Century: America's Time -- Seeds of Change"

Study guide on video "The Century: America's Time -- Seeds of Change"

America became an "empire" for the first time in 1898, adopting what the video calls a foreign policy of "imperialism." Explain how the video supports this claim through discussing each of the following :

-- Spanish-American War

-- Theodore Roosevelt

-- Panama Canal

-- conflict between European nations

-- new technologies in warfare

-- terrorist assassination of Austrian Archduke franz Ferdinand