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New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii
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Samoa crisis with Germany. Pan-American Conference
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Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History
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New Orleans crisis with italy
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Valparaiso crisis with Chile
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Sierra Club founded
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Pribilof Islands dispute with Canada. White planter revolt in Hawai. Cleveland refuses Hawaii annexation
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Cubans revolt against Spain
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Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britian
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Maine explosion in Havana narbor. Spanish-American War. Teller Amendment. Dewy's victory at Manila Bay. Hawaii annexed.
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Senate ratifies treaty acquiring Philippines. Aguinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines. First American Open Door note.
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National Consumers League Founded
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Hawaii receives full territorial status. Foraker Act for Puerto Rico. Boxer Rebellion and U.S. military expedition to China. Second open door note. McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency
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Supreme Court Insula Cases. Platt Amendment. McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president. Filpino rebellion suppressed. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britian gives United States exclusive right to build Panama Canal.
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Commission system established in Galveston, Texas. Progressive Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin. American Socialist party formed.
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U.S. troops leave Cuba. Colombian senate rejects U.S. proposal for canal across Panama.
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Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposes. Anthracite coal strike. Newlnds Act
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Panamanian revolution against Colombia. Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives United States control of Canal Zone in newly independent Panama.
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Department of Commerce and Labor established. Elkins Act. Women's Trade Union League founded.
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Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
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Construction of Panama Canal
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Northern Securities case. Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker for presidency.
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United States takes over Dominican Republic customs service. Roosevelt mediates Russo-Japanese peace treaty
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Lochner v. New York
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San Francisco Japanese education crisis. Roosevelt arrange Algeciras Conference
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Hepburn Act. Upton Sinclair publishes The jungl. Meat Inspection act Pure Food and Drug act
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U.S. Marines occupy Cuba
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Great White Fleet makes world voyage
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"Roosevelt panic"
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"Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan
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Root-Takahira agreement
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Muller v. Oregon. Taft defeats Bryan for presidency. Aldrich- Vreeland Act
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Payne- Aldrich Trariff
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Ballinger-Pinchot affair. Washington State grants woman suffrage
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Triangl Shirtwaist Company fire. Standard Oil antitrust case. U.S. Steel Corporation antitrust suit. California grants women suffrage.
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Taft wins Republican nomination over Roosevelt. Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon grants woman suffrage. Children's Buureau established in Departmentof Labor
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Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for oresidency
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Seventeenth Amendment passed (direct electron of U.S. senators)
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Underwood Tariff Act. Sixteenth Amendment (income tax). Federal Reserve Act. Huerta Takes power in Mexico.
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Clayton Anti-Trust Act. Federal Trade Commission estsblished. U.S. seizes port of Veracruz, Mexico. World war I begins in Europe
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La Follet Seaman's Act. Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat. U.S. Marines sent to Hati. Germany declares submarine war area around British Isles.
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Puerto Ricans granted U.S. citizenship
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Women's Bureau established in Department of Labor