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It raised tariff on wool, woolen manufactures, on tin plate, barley and some other agricultural products and remitted the tariff on raw sugar.
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It kept US from being able to annex Cuba and left the people of Cuba in charge of their island, but it did allow the US to leave military in Cuba.
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This war refers to the armed US intervention in the turmoil of four Spanish colonies - Cuba, Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico.
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There was a controversy whether or not to annex the Philippines. Senate narrowly approved the treaty to do this.
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It was an uprising in China against foreign influence in religion, politics, and trade. Many were killed.
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U.S. wanted to cut down on travel time so they wanted to build a canal through Central America.
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Gave the United States complete and unending sovereignty over a 10-mile-wide Canal Zone.
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Roosevelt feared the Europeans would use force to collect their loans from the Dominican Republic. Therefore, issued the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
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It consisted of sixteen new battleships. The battleships were painted white except for gilded scrollwork on their bows.
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Taft suggested replacing European loans with American ones because he thought that increasing the U.S. economic power would reduce the changes of European intervention.
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After a series of somewhat "takeovers," the Queen handed over Hawaii to the US to prevent bloodshed.
