Unit 11 Timeline

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  • The first New England missionaries reached Hawai

  • The State Department began to warn other nations to keep their hands off Hawaii.

  • treaty with the native government guaranteed naval-base rights at Pearl Harbor.

  • Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan's book of 1890

    The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660-1783, argued that control of the sea was the key to world dominance; it stimulated the naval race among the great powers.

  • American ship Maine blows up

    The American ship, Maine blew up in the Havana port. The Spanish investigators deduced that it was an accident (spontaneous combustion in one of the coal bunkers) while the American investigators claimed that Spain had sunk it. The American people were convinced by the American investigators and war with Spain became imminent.

  • Spanish and American negotiators met in Paris to begin heated discussions.

  • Admiral Cervera's fleet was entirely destroyed on July 3, 1898 and shortly thereafter Santiago surrendered.

  • Newlands Act of 1902

    Authorized the federal government to collect money from the sale of public lands in western states and then use these funds for the development of irrigation projects.

  • The "Roosevelt Panic" of 1907

    A panic descended upon Wall Street in 1907. The financial world blamed the panic on President Roosevelt for unsettling the industries with his anti-trust tactics.
    Responding

  • Payne-Aldrich Bill

    the Payne-Aldrich Bill in 1909,