USA HISTORY

The United States needed a port in the Pacific Ocean ____

(A) for food

(B) ** to stop for fuel

(C) to rest because it was very far

(D) to buy food

Concept note-1: -As trade with Latin America grew during the second half of the nineteenth century, it needed ports for its ships to refuel and resupply as they crossed the Pacific.

Concept note-2: -Making the journey to China and maintaining the U.S. presence there also required a network of ports extending across the Pacific Ocean, and as such, the China trade soon drove the United States to expand its presence throughout the Pacific region.

Concept note-3: -In the 1860s, Secretary of State William Seward wanted the United States to domi-nate trade in the Pacific. In 1867, he persuaded Congress to annex, or take over, Midway Island, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.