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US signed treaty to have a US naval station at Pago Pago, soon US wanted to have a voice in affairs.Britian and Germany wanted islands too and also had treaty rights. The three nations came close to war but all agreed to share power over islands.
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A period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. This occured in the year of 1880-1914. European countries that were involved was Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Spain.
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Argued that national prosperity and power depended on control of the world's sea-lanes.
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A group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president.
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1895–1899
Dispute between the U.S. and Britain involving the point at which the Venezuela / Columbia border was drawn. Britain eventually won the dispute. -
the U.S. battleship Maine exploded and sank in Havana Harbor; 260 Americans died. An internal explosion caused by a fire in the coal bunker, the sinking of the U.S.S. "Remember the Maine!" became a common cry for war.
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U.S. wanted Hawaii for business and so Hawaiian sugar could be sold in the U.S. duty free, Queen Liliuokalani opposed so Sanford B. Dole overthrew her in 1893, William McKinley convinced Congress to annex Hawaii in 1898.
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Period: April 1898 – August 1898
War fought between the US and Spain in Cuba and the Philippines. It lasted less than 3 months and resulted in Cuba's independence as well as the US annexing Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. -
Legislation that promised the US would not annex Cuba after winning the Spanish-American war
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This letter, written by the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, criticized American President William McKinley by calling him weak and concerned only with gaining the favor of the crowd.
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This was a regiment of volunteer soldiers commanded by Col. Leonard Wood, but had been organized principally by Peter Roosevelt who had resigned from the Navy Department in order to join the war with Spain.
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Effective: April 11, 1899. Brought a formal end to the Spanish-American war
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rebellion in Beijing, China started by a secret society of Chinese who opposed the "foreign devils". The rebellion was ended by British troops
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a United States federal law that established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico.
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authorized U.S. intervention in Cuba to protect its interests. Cuba pledged not to make treates with other countries that might compromise its independence.
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a series of opinions by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1901, about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War
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Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force.
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The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build.
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The Great White Fleet A group of 16 gleaming white ships on a cruise around the world to display the nation's naval power. December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909
