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Bought Alaska from Russa bought by William Seward. (Sewards ice box / Seward's Folly)
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William McKinley convinced Congress to annex Hawaii
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A war between Spain and the U.S. in the Caribbean and the Philippines in 1898. The US successfully invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
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Site of the most famous battle of the Spanish-American war, where Theodore Roosevelt successfully leads the Rough Riders in a charge against the Spanish trenches
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It was won by U.S. in Sp. Am. War. Rebelled and started Philippine American war (1901-1903). Lost war and became U.S. territory
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A ship canal 40 miles long across the Isthmus of Panama built by the United States (1904-1914)