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Written by Captain Alfred T. Mahan this book piqued the governments interest in imperialism and popularized the idea of the New Navy.
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Its founders included Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.The women had a responsbility for the health of the family and education of children. On the farm they could carry out these responsibilities but in the cities they needed to have a voice on boards of public health, police commisions and school boards.
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The Populists were divided and the Republicans were discredited, so grover Cleveland easily took off ice for his second term and is the only President to be reelected after defeat.
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Cleveland had barely taken office when this depression started becuase of labor disorders, the ongoing agricultural depression. and the splurge of overbuilding and speculation.It lasted for about 4 years and collaped about 8,000 businessed in six months.
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This Tariff resembled the Mckinley Tariff. It contained a 2 percent tac in incomes over $4,000.
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The Supreme Court legitimizes the "separate but equal" doctrine.
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During this "splendid little war" the US gain control of the Philippines and become and imperial power.
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she called woomen to abandon their dependent status and contribute to the larger life of the community through productive involvment in the economy.
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Bitterness toward American troops mounted after the American Senate refused to pass a resolution granting Filipino independence.
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He urged the great powers to announce that their spheres of influence would respect certain Chinese rights and the ideal of fair competition.
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Superpatriotic Chinese group, "Boxers", broke loose and killed over 200 missionaries and other whites and besieged Beijing
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American soliders infiltrated a guerrilla camp and caputured Aguinaldo.
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Legal barriers to dig the canal were removed so the United States had a free hand to build the canal, the only question left was were it would be built.
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He was murdered by a deranged anarchist
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After the murder of McKinley, Roosevelt becomes the youngest president thus far at 42
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A treaty favorable to the United States was negotiated between US and COlumbia. It granted the United States a lease for a six-mile-wide zone in exchange for $10 million and an annual payment of $250,000. This plan was denied by the Columbian Senate.
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Columbian troops gathered to crush uprising but US Naval forces would not let them criss the isthmus. They held out until Columbia agreed to the price and conditions that the US decided on.
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It wouldn't be completed for another 10 years in 1914
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The US took over the management of tariff collections in the Dominican Republic.
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Intended to focus attention on the plight of workers in the big canning factories but instead appalled the public with unsanitary food products
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He recieved it for helping end the Russo-Japan War in 1905 and for helping arrange an international conference to mediate North African disputes in 1906
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16 battleships started from Virgina waters and went around the world to make a statement that they were ready for "a feast, a frolic, or a fight." It also gave a new recruiting slogan of "Join the Navy and See the World."
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The Congress has power to lay and collect taxes on incomes
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The Senate is composed of 2 senators from each state are are are elected for 6 years
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Ferdinand, heir to Austria-Hungary's throne, and his wife are assassinated by Serbian, Gavrilo Princip.
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after Germanyinvades Belgium
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Both sides wooed the US however the United States was intent on staying neutral
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The British passenger liner was sunk off the coast of Ireland and resulted in a loss of 1,198 lives, 128 Americans. It was carrying 4,200 cases of small-arms ammunition.
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The Arabic, another British liner, was sunk in August with a loss of 2 American lives. The Germans then promised not to sink another unarmed and unresisting passenger ship without warning. This was broken when they sunk the French Sussex
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Wilson gives Germany an ultimatum, quit sinking ships, or go to war with US
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The Zimmerman Telegram is intercepted and published. It posed a German-Mexican alliance. This was the final string and led to the entry of America into WWI
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Wison gave his speech to Congress and raised hopes of peace for the world
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Germany signs armstice, so the fighting is over
