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A doctrine by James Monroe that warned European countries not to colonize in America.
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Captain William Reynolds takes possession of the islands, and they are the first offshore islands annexed by the United States.
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Russia offered to sell Alaska to America, believing that America would off-set Britain’s plans and America purchased Alaska for $7.2 million.
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Hawaiian sugar cane prices rise because of United States’s tariffs.
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Grover Cleveland was the only president to be elected for 2 non-consecutive terms, he was the 22nd president and the 24nd president.
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An economic crisis set off by the collapse of two of the country's largest employers, the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company.
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Led by Maximo Gomez y Baez, Cuban separatists revolted and declared Cuba to be the Republic of Cuba.
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General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau created a policy f moving Cubans to more central locations where they would be under control of the Spanish army.
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Led by Emilio Aguinaldo, the revolt carried the Filipinos to a war with Spain and the United States.
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President McKinley was a part of the Republican party, and he was shot and killed in 1901.
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U.S. sugar interests encouraged that the King be overthrown, and Hawaii was established as a republic, but taken over by America 5 years later.
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The USS Maine had been sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after riots broke out in Havana in January, however it mysteriously sank.
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This letter, written by the Spanish Ambassador Enrique Dupuy de Lôme to the United States, criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd.
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America and Spain went to war because of America's support of the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor
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At the end of the Spanish American war, the US and Spain signed a treaty and the Philippines became an American territory.
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An amendment that gave Cubans freedom once America overthrew Spain.
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Revolutionist Equiano Aguinaldo was captured by America after becoming president of the Philippines.
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The Spheres of Influence in China was when different European nations had control over prosperous Chinese ports and had control of trade in that region disregarding the rights of the Chinese people.
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A policy that declared equal privileges for all countries trading with China.
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A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there
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President William McKinley defeated Bryan Jennings and was reelected.
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A federal law that established civilian government for Puerto Rico.
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Theodore Roosevelt becomes the youngest president after President McKinley is assassinated.
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Outlined the United States’s role in Cuba and the Caribbean.
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An agreement between America and Panama granting the United States access across Panama to build a canal.
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An addition to the Monroe Doctrine that announced the new Latin American policy.
