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was signed into law by President William McKinley. The amendment defined the terms of Cuban–U.S. relations to essentially be an unequal one of U.S. dominance over Cuba.
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William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music in Buffalo when he was participating in Pan-American Exposition. He died eight days later.
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Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, sportsman, conservationist and writer. He was 26th President of the United States.
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signed by the United States and Great Britain for the legal preliminary of the U.S. to build the Panama Canal.
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This Act identified 16 states and territories. Much of the West could not have been settled without the water provided by the Act.
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The 1903 Cuban–American Treaty of Relations was a treaty between the Republic of Cuba and the United States. It was used as justification for the Second Occupation of Cuba from 1906 to 1909
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The US formally took control of the canal property.
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Industrial Workers of the World was founded as an international labor union.
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President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the negotiations that ended the conflict of the Russo-Japanese War.
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation was created as a domestic intelligence and security service of the United States. It operates under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, and the U.S. Intelligence Community. It reports to both the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence.
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The purpose of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination."
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William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices.
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The mission of the Boy Scouts of America is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law.
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It was admitted to the Union as the 47th state.
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Arizona acquired the admission to Union.
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Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. During his presidency, the Revenue Act of 1913 was enacted, lowering tariffs and implementing a federal income tax. In early 1917, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany after Germany implemented a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, and Congress complied.
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Its long title was an act to provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes.
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Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anticompetitive business practices.
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Treaty of the Danish West Indies was signed and Virgin Islands were were sold to the United States.
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The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism.
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The U.S. declared war on Germany and entered World War I after pressing events from Germany.
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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. It was signed in Versailles, France. It required Germany to disarm, make ample territorial concessions, and pay reparations to certain countries that had formed the Entente powers.
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The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted by the 66th United States Congress. The three distinct purposes of the Act were to prohibit intoxicating beverages, to regulate the manufacture, sale, or transport of intoxicating liquor, and
to ensure an ample supply of alcohol and promote its use in scientific research and in the development of fuel, dye, and other lawful industries and practices, such as religious rituals. -
the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles based primarily on objections to the League of Nations. The U.S signed separate peace treaties with the Central Powers.
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The bombing killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.
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