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U.S. Acquires Alaska
Acquires Alaska for its Timber, minerals and oil It made the United Staes bigger and we were starting to become a national power -
U.S.S Maine
IT was to bring home U.S. citizens from cuba and cuba blew it up It Made us declear war on spain and it started the Spainish american war -
Treaty of Paris
ended the spainish american war and the us got Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines It gave us more land -
Platt Amendment
Made the U.S. in control of cuba in a way so if cuba got in trouble we could take controle of their land -
Meat Inspection Act
inspeact meat. It made sure that no meat that was on the market was contaminated -
Pure Food and Drug act
stoped sale of contaminated foods and medicines and it made the
nation safe and that desise would not spread easily -
Alliance System
Triple Entente also known as the Allies, France Britian, and Russia, the Triple Alliance also known as the Central powers,cosited of Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy It made so smaller countries got into a war they would have back up from bigger countries -
Election of 1912
Teddy Roosevelt found Bull Moose party against Taft Republican,Wilson won re-election teddy roosevelt didnt like how taft didnt follow his ideas and he was is hand pick sick seccer -
Seventh Admendment
state voter to elect their own senetors it made it better so us the people gave us more rights and it allowed us to meet our senitors -
Panama Canal
save ships time so they wouldn't have to go around south america
It would also save the ship compinies money and time shiping goods -
Sinking of the Lusitania
German U-Boats snak the british ship with american passengers
It brought us to the brink of entering world war one -
Zimmerman note
Tellagram from Germany to Mexico telling them to attact the U.S. It brought us into WW1 and we delared war on germany -
Selective Service Act
Required men to regester for the draft So we could have more men fighting the war -
Fourteen Points speech
helped creat the league of nations and it helped creat world peace and wanted to make sure their were no more world wars -
Proabition
Banning of liqur in the u.s So they tought that the crime rate would go down in the U.S and that it would make our nation healthier
