The public education movement emphasized that civil responsibility and morality needed to be taught in order to have an effective democracy.
Horace Mann, who started the common school movement in Massachusetts, believed that universal public education was the best way to turn the nation's children into judicious republican citizens.
Due to the Spanish-American war in 1898, the United States needed a naval base in the Pacific and Hawaii was the perfect fit
They had a perfect place to plant food,
They had plentiful forests filled with animals, and they had lots of natural resources to build houses and stuff with
They cried as they went because they were leaving the land they loved, the land they had called home for so many years.
After 1900 Japan aligned itself with Britain, and Germany and Japan were enemies in World War I. Japan declared war on the German Empire in 1914 and seized key German possessions in China and the Pacific. In the 1930s, both countries adopted aggressive militaristic attitudes toward their respective regions. Hope this helped!!
