unit 11

  • New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii

  • Samoa crisis with GermanyPan-American Conference

  • Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History

  • New Orleans crisis with Italy

  • Valparaiso crisis with Chile

  • Sierra Club founded

  • Pribilof Islands dispute with CanadaWhite planter revolt in HawaiiCleveland refuses Hawaii annexation

  • Cubans revolt against Spain

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    Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britain

  • 5 events

    Maine explosion in Havana harbor
    Spanish-American War
    Teller Amendment
    Dewey's victory at Manila Bay
    Hawaii annexed
  • 3 events

    Senate ratifies treaty acquiring Philippines
    Aguinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines
    First American Open Door note
  • National Consumers League founded

  • 5 events

    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
  • 5 events

    Supreme Court Insular Cases
    Platt Amendment
    McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president
    Filipino rebellion suppressed
    Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain gives United States exclusive right to build Panama Canal
  • 3 events

    Commission system established in Galveston, Texas
    Progressive Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin
    American Socialist Party of America formed
  • 2 events

    U.S. troops leave Cuba
    Colombian senate rejects U.S. por postal for canal across Panama
  • 3 events

    Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposés
    Anthracite coal strike
    New lands Act
  • 2 events

    Panamanian revolution against Colombia
    Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives United States control of Canal Zone in newly independent Panama
  • 2 events

    Department of Commerce and Labor established Elkins Act
    Women's Trade Union League founded
  • Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine

  • 2 events

    Northern Securities case
    Roosevelt wins election to first full term as president
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    Construction of Panama Canal

  • 2 events

    United States takes over Dominican Republic customs service
    Roosevelt mediates Russo-Japanese peace treaty
  • Lochner v. New York

  • 2 events

    San Francisco Japanese education crisis
    Roosevelt arranges Algeciras Conference
  • 4 events

    Hepburn Act
    Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
    Meat Inspection Act
    Pure Food and Drug Act
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    U.S. Marines occupy cuba

  • Great White Fleet makes world voyage

  • "Roosevelt panic"

  • Period: to

    "Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan

  • Root-Takahira agreement

  • 3 events

    Muller v. Oregon
    Taft defeats Bryan for presidency
    Aldrich-Vreeland Act
  • Payne-Aldrich tariff

  • 2 events

    Ballinger-Pinchot affair
    Washington State grants woman suffrage
  • 4 events

    Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
    Standard Oil antitrust case
    U.S. Steel Corporation antitrust suit
    California grants woman suffrage
  • 4 events

    Taft wins Republican nomination over Roosevelt
    Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency
    Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon grant woman suffrage
    Children's Bureau established in Department of Labor
  • 3 events

    Seventeenth Amendment passed (direct election of U.S. senators)
    Federal Reserve Act
    San Francisco decides to build HetchHetchy Reservoir
  • 4 events

    Underwood Tariff Act
    Sixteenth Amendment (income tax)
    Federal Reserve ct
    Huerta takes power in Mexico
  • 4 events

    Clayton Anti-Trust Act
    Federal Trade Commission established
    U.S. Seizes port of Veracruz, Mexico
    World War I begins in Europe
  • 3 events

    La Follette Seaman's Act
    Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat
    Germany declares submarine war area around British Isles
  • 10 events

    Sussex ultimatum and pledge
    U.S. exports to European belligerents skyrocket
    Workingmen's Compensation Act
    Federal Farm Loan Act
    Warehouse Act
    Adamson Act
    Pancho Villa raids New Mexico
    Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court
    Jones Act
    Wilson defeats Hughes for presidency
  • Puerto Ricans granted U.S. citizenship

  • 7 events

    Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
    Zimmermann note
    Railroads placed under federal control
    United States enters World War I
    Espionage Act of 1917
    Wilson calls for "peace without victory"
    Bolshevik Revolution
  • 5 events

    Wilson proposes Fourteen Points
    Sedition Act of 1918
    Battle of Château-Thierry
    Second Battle of the Marne
    Meuse-Argonne offensive
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    Armistice ends World War IWorldwide influenza pandemic

  • Women's Bureau established in Department of Labor