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matthew perry leads 4 ships in to harbor. He is trying to reestablish trade that has been lost for 200 years.
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seward bought alaska for 7.2 million dollars. Mass quantities of oil were found in Alaska.
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Puerto ricans wanted their freedom from spain to try to get all of the good things america had.
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Cubans fought for their freedom from Spain. America joined in when a ship mysteriously sunk in the harbor
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hawaii gave america the much needed sugar and other crops we could not grow. Hawaii eventually became a state after they gained a large enough population.
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The official philippine government declared war and loss. After that there was still private groups fighting the americans.
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a secret chinese organisation had a uprise against japanese influence coming into their territory
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Panam issues declarence from columbia. the united states helped them get to this point so we could build and run panama canal.
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Roosevelt showed the europeans who was boss and did not allow their influence.
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Roosevelt is elected. He is now acting president.
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taft is elected and he goes against what everyone thought he was going to do. He loses all progressive support.
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they went through a lot of power changes and it was a big war in their country and eventually they had one leader come out on top and didn't want trade with america. Ended 1917
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He is elected and takes us out of isolation and into ww2.
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Panama Canal is completed after many failures and lots of dangerous work.
