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McKinley Tariff
A name populary given to a law enacted by the United States Congress in 1890. It increased the tariffs on some goods imported into the United States. -
Teller Amendment
An amendment to a joint resolution of the United States Congress, enacted on April 19, 1898. In reply to President William McKinley's War Message. It placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba. -
Spanish American War
A brief intense conflict that effectively ended Spain's worldwide empire and gained the United States several new possessions in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Preceded by a naval tragedy, the destruction of USS Maine at Havana, Cuba. Featured two major naval battles, one in the Philippines and the other off Cuba, plus several smaller naval clashes. -
Annexation of the Philippines
The American Anti-Imperialist League was formed on June 15, 1898 to fight U.S. annexation of the Philippines and other U.S. insular areas on economic, legal, and moral grounds -
Annexation of Hawaii
when the Hawaiian island were formally annexed by the United States in 1898, the event marked the end of a lengthy internal struggle between native Hawaiians and white American businessmen for control of the Hawaiian goverment. -
The boxer Rebellion
Was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Hamony society" in Chinca between 1898 and 1901, opposing Western imperalism and Christanity. -
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
It established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. -
Roosevelt Corollary
Was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine that asserted a right of the United states to intervene to "stablize" the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts. -
The great White Fleet
The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe. -
Dollar Diplomacy
The term used to describe the "good chiss effort" of the United States — particularly under President William Howard Taft — to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
U.S. and Panama Canal
The Panama Canal allows ships to pass between the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean, saving about 8000 miles from a journey around the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn.
