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The Purchase of Alaska
-Signaled the closing of the frontier and the end of Manifest Destiny
-Urged people to find something else to continue Manifest Destiny -
Panic of 1893
-Caused people to search for more overseas markets and sources of raw materials
-Conservatives hoped to achieve this by economic and diplomatic means, no military involvement -
Venezuela and Guiana boundary dispute
-President Cleveland and Secretary of State Richard Olney tell Great Britain to arbitrate the dispute
-Britain says this is none of the US’s business, US argues that Monroe Doctrine applies
-Shows how the US justified intervention in foreign affairs -
Sinking of the Maine
-US Battleship Maine exploded killing 260 Americans
-Spain was accused for the accident and Congress began pushing for war with Spain -
The Treaty of Peace
-recognition of Cuban independence
-US acquired Guam, Puerto Rico, and payed Spain $20 million for the Philippines -
Boxer Rebellion
-Chinese nationalists (Boxers) carry out attacks on foreign settlements, murdering Christian missionaries
-the US sent troops to march on Beijing and forced China to pay for the actions of the Boxers which weakened the Chinese imperialist regime -
Construction of Panama Canal
-connected the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean
-Latin Americans were very resentful of the canal’s construction