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THe Doctrine demanded that European countries stay out of the affairs of Latin American nations. -
diplomats recommended to President Franklin Pierce that the US buy Cuba from Spain -
Lie in the Pacific Ocean about 1300 miles north of Hawaii -
American sympathies went out to the Cuban people during this time.
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Reason: The desire for military strength, The desire for new markets, and the desire for cultural superiority / Social Darwinism, Racism, and Desire to spread American Beliefs -
The US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. People thought it was Useless and called it the "Steward's Icebox". -
Exiled from Cuba 16 but returned years later to start a revolution, he also destroyed Spanish and American property. -
Spanish general who forced Cubans into concentration camps.
President Mckinley stoped the predicament without war, and pain took Weyler out of spain. -
Wanted to avoid war but the extreme journalist call to war. McKinley brought a naval ship to Cuba to aid civilians. DeLorme sent a letter intercepted by Americans in which the Spanish Ambassador called McKinley weak. -
No one knew what caused the explosion. The Yellow Journalists blamed Spain. This was the lead-up to a war. -
The Reasons for war were the USS Marine Explodes, to Protect American business in Cuba. America supports Cuba's independence from Spain and the Yellow Journalist called for war. -
Spain freed Cuba and turned over the islands of Guam in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the West Indies to the US. -
U.S. Secretary of State John Hay issued a series of policy statements. The notes were letters addressed to the leaders of imperialist nations proposing that the nations share their trading rights with the US. -
This ended military rule and set up a civil government. The act gave the president of the United states the Power to appoint Puerto Rico's Governor and members of the upper house of its legislature. -
The newly formed Cuban government wrote a constitution for an independent Cuba. Cuba could not make treaties that might limit its independence or permit a foreign power to control any part of its territory. The US had the right to intervene in Cuba. no debt that could not be repaid. No buying and lease land for the island -
As early as 1850, the US and Britain had agreed to share the rights to such a canal. In the treaty, Britain gave the US exclusive rights to build and control a canal through Central America. -
The president and Congress decided to the US the Panama route and agreed to but the French company's route for $40 million. They had gotten permission from Colombia, which ruled Panama -
nearly a dozen U.S. warships were present as Panama declared its independence. -
Russia's neighbors in East Asia were both imperialist powers, and they were competing for control of Koria -
The corollary said that the U.S. would now use force to protect its economic interests in Latin America. -
Japanese officials approached President Roosevelt in secret and asked to mediate [eace negotiations. Roosevelt agreed and Russian and Japanese delegates convened in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. -
Fifteen days after Panama's independence, Panama and the U.S. signed a treaty in which the U.S. agreed to pay Panama $10 million-plus an annual rent of $250,000 for an area of land across Panama, called the Canal Zone. -
One of Huerta's officers arrested a small group of American sailors in Tampico, on Mexico's eastern shore -
The canal opened for business, and more than 1,00 merchant ships passed through during its first year -
Carranza invited American engineers to operate mines in northern Mexico. Villa's men took the Americans odd a train and shot them. Two months later, some of Villa's followers raided Columbus, New Mexico, and killed 17 Americans. -
Congress retained the right to extend US citizenship, and it granted that right to Puerto Ricans -
Under American rule, the Philippines move gradually towards independence and finally became an independent republic. -
Foreigners and immigrant laborers outnumbered native Hawaiians about three to one. Creating sugar plantations accounted for about three-quarters of the islands' wealth. 1898 it became a territory but Hawians never had the chance to vote.