Chapter 18 American Imperialism Project

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  • American merchants stopped at Hawaii on their way to China

  • The McKinley tariff provoked a crisis by eliminating the duty free status of Hawaiian sugar

  • Yankee missionaries founded Christian Schools and Churches on the Islands

  • Diplomats recommended to President Franklin, that the U.S. by Cuba from Spain

  • The U.S. bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million

  • the U.S. took over the Midway Islands

  • The U.S. agreed to import Hawaiian sugar, duty-free

  • Cuban people forced Spain to abolish slave

  • U.S. military and economic leaders pressured Hawaii to allow the U.S. to build a naval base at Pearl Harbor

  • Cuban poet Jose Marti launched a revolution

  • Spain sent General Valeriano Weyler to Cuba to restore order

  • William McKinley succeeded Cleveland as President

  • President William McKinley took office and demanded for American intervention in Cuba

  • American newspapers claimed the Spanish had blown up the USS Maine

  • American forces landed in Cuba and began to converge on the port city of Santiago

  • The USS Maine blew up in the harbor of Havana

  • McKinley asked Congress for authority to use force against Spain

  • The US declared war on Spain

  • The American fleet in the Pacific steamed to the Philippines

  • The most famous land battle in Cuba took place near Santiago

  • American troops invaded Puerto Rico

  • Congress proclaimed Hawaii an American territory

  • Do US in Spain met in Paris to agree on a treaty

  • The Filipinos, led by Aquinaldo, rose a revolt

  • The annexation question was settled with the senators approval of the treaty of Paris

  • Congress pass the Foraker act, which ended military rule and set up a civil government

  • The newly formed Cuban government wrote a constitution for an independent Cuba

  • Troops from Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, joined American soldiers and marched on the Chinese capital

  • William McKinley was elected a second term against William Jennings, Byran

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    Lewis Muñoz Rivera continually worked for independence of his homeland?

  • The US insisted that Cuba add to its constitution, several provisions known as the Platt Amendment

  • Nation of William McKinley, thrust Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt into the role of world leader

  • Can you play amendment became part of a treaty between the US and Cuba

  • The president and congress decided to use the Panama around and agreed to by the French companies route four $40 million

  • Nearly a dozen US war ships were present as Panama declared its independence

  • Russia and Japan were competing for control of Korea

  • Work begin on the Panama Canal

  • Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

  • Payments for the panama canal began

  • President Woodrow Wilson gave the Monroe Doctrine a moral tone

  • Panama canal opened for business

  • The U.S. Congress invited Nuñoz Rivera to speak

  • Muñoz Rivera died in Puerto Rico

  • Muñoz Rivera stood what is the US House of Representatives to discuss the future of Puerto Rico

  • The Philippines became an independent republic

  • Alaska became a state

  • Hawaii became the 50th state of the U.S.

  • I President McKinley ordered the USS Maine to Cuba

  • Foreigners and immigrant laborers out numbered native Hawaiians about 3 to 1