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Purchase Of Alaska
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Open Door Policy
Open Door policy, statement of principles initiated by the United States for the protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China and in support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity. -
Take Over In Hawaii
THe fertile soil and the year around climate helped create an emense draw to come to Hawaii. It was an iimportant stop in bewteen the trading of the European countries and the Americas. It was a paradise and and was a big place for the military to set up their navel ect. forces. -
America claims Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico
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America Claims Cuba
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America Claims Philippines
Americans came to the islands primarily to conduct business. They owned many businesses in trade and in the sugar industry. -
Yellow Journalism
Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. It was the first colored newspaper that really showed the flaws and the happenings of America. -
America Calims Guam
The Capture of Guam was a bloodless event between the United States and the Kingdom of Spain during the Spanish-American War. The U.S. Navy sent a single cruiser, the USS Charleston, to capture the island of Guam, then under Spanish control. -
The Anti imperalist league
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Spanish American War
The Manifest Destny was the idea that drove America to go over to Hawaii and try to take them over. America was jealous that Spain was in control of Cuba and that didn't set well. The tellar ammendment was set up to give Cuba the promise that it wouldn't be coloninized but that was ended out with a lie and was never followed through with. The main reason is econimics, territory, and religion. -
The Anti-Imperialist League
The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. -
Teddy Rosevelt and the Rough RIders
the first voluntary cavalry in the Spanish-American War. The U.S. was fighting against Spain over Spain's colonial policies with Cuba. Roosevelt recruited a diverse group of cowboys, miners, law enforcement officials, and Native Americans to join the Rough Riders. -
Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy
President Theodore Roosevelt’s interventionist foreign policy subverted the Constitution and helped transform America into the most powerful nation on Earth -
Open Door Policy is Developed
Open Door Policy was a foreign policy initiative enunciated Open Door to Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, with notes following to Japan, France, and Italy. The initial note requested that the various governments ensure that equal commercial opportunity be allowed and that no nation with a sphere of influence use that power to benefit its own nationals -
America gets INVOLVED with Nicaragua, Panama,Venezuela
America basically wanted to gain as much power as they could. There was alot of resources that America wanted to able to have control over.They knew that they were going to have a strong navel base because they are fighting in the pacific. -
Boxer Rebellion
Western powers and Japan had forced China's ruling Qing dynasty to accept wide foreign control over the country's economic affairs. In the Opium Wars, popular rebellions, and the Sino-Japanese War, China had fought to resist the foreigners, but it lacked a modernized military and suffered millions of casualties -
Big Stick Diplomacy
This is the date when this phrase was coined at the Minnisota Fair. This notion of spreading American values and ideals throughout the world helped make the U.S. a world power, but it also greatly weakened constitutional government by making the executive branch supreme in foreign policy. This set a precedent that still exists today. -
America Invades Nicuragua and Panama (in depth)
The direct interventions were extensions of the 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, in which President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed the right of U.S. intervention to preclude European intervention in the Caribbean.They wnted to have control over their cananls. -
Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution started.The initial purpose of the revolutionary movement was to overthrow General Porfirio Diaz who had been in power form more thank 30 years. -
America Claims Neutrality at the start of WWI
Wilson's initial hope that America could be "impartial in thought as well as in action" was soon compromised by Germany's attempted quarantine of the British Isles. Britain was one of America's closest trading partners, and tension arose between the United States and Germany when several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines. -
The Mexican Revolution Ends
There is dissagrement about the end of the Mexican Revolution. Some sources believe it is marked by the Proclamation o the Mexican Constutution in 1917. Other sources state that it was in 1924 when President Plutarco Elias Calles took office. -
America Joins WWI
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America Joins WWI
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.
