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McKinley Tariff
The McKinley tariff was sponsered by William McKiley. It gained support from unlikely sources. (Western and southern Democrats) The tariff was truely onerous led to a rise in the proces of many products. Lots of people who have supported the measure were defeted at the polls in 1892. -
Annexition of the Philippines
President McKinley forced Spain to cede the Philippine Islands. McKinley explained that he had been forced to make the decition to annex. The leauge ended the war against the Philippines and stopped the annexation of the islands. -
Spanish-American War
In April the U.S. declared war on spain after the sinking of the Battleship Maine in Havana harbor in February. The war ended with the signing of the Treaty of paris in December. As a result Spain lost control over the remains of it's overseas empire. (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippine Islands, and other islands) -
Teller Amendment
Senator Henry M. Teller proposed an amendment to the U.S. declaration of war agaisnt Spain that said that the U.S. would not establish permanent control over Cuba, The senate passed the amendment in April. After spanish troops left the island the U.S. occupied Cuba until 1902. -
Annexation of Hawaii
It became clear to the U.S. tht Hawaii was becoming more important as an export resource and as a strategic location for defense in the Pacofic. the U.S. was also concered about the possibility that Hawaii might become a part of the Europian nation's empire which is possibly Great Britian or France. -
The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxers wanted to destroy the Ch'ing dynasty and wanted to rid China of all foreign influance. By the late 1900's. the band of Boxers were massacring Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians. By May the Boxer Rebellion had come out of the countryside and was being waged in the capitol of Peking which is now known as Bejjing. -
Hay-Bunnau-Varilla Treaty
The U.S. and the newly independent country of Panama signed the Hay-Bunnau-Varilla treaty. This was a follow-up of the unsuccesful Hay-Herran Treaty, using largely the same terms. Panama would agree to the terms which established a Panama Canal Zone that was ten miles wide. -
U.S. and the Panama Canal
The Panama Canal was fourty-eight miles long and allowed ships to pass through the Atlanic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. That saved them about eight thousand miles from a journey around the southern tip of South America. -
the Rooselvelt Corallary
The government of the Dominican Republic went bankrupt and Theodore Roosevelt feared that Gerany and other nations might intervene forcibly to collect their debts. So Roosevelt issued the Roosevelt Corollary as a part of a 1904 message to Congress. -
The Great White Fleet
The "Great White Fleet" was sent around the world by president Theodore Rooosevelt from December 1907 to February 1909. It consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The battleships were apinted white except for glided scrollwork on their bows. The Atlantic Fleet battleships which later were known as the "Great white Fleet". -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taff's remarks gave formal definition to the term "Dollar Diplomacy," a phrase with the diplomacy his administration pursued between 1909 and 1913. It was a constucted view of foreign relations, arising in a great part out of the natural alliances between the corporate lawyers who came to people Taft's administration and the bankers and buisness that were their clients.