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Mckinley tariff
Created a crisis by ending Hawaii’s favored position in the sugar trade -
Spanish American War
Congress recognized cuba’s independence and voted to use U.S military force to help cuba attain it. -
Teller Amendment
placed a condition of the United States military in Cuba -
Annexation of Hawaii
Hawaii became a U.S territory in the 1900’s and a state in 1959 -
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Annexation of the Philippines
This is when the phillippines became a U.S territory -
The Boxer Rebellion
Boxers attacked Western missionaries and traders in north china, killing more than 200 people -
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
a treaty signed by the United States and Panama, that established the Panama Canal Zone and the construction of the Panama Canal -
Roosevelt Corollary
an extension of the Monroe Doctrine by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt's extension of the Monroe Doctrine asserted a right of the United States to intervene the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts -
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The great white fleet
a popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe -
Dollar Diplomacy
economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries -
U.S and Panama canal
The narrow land bridge between North and South America that made a water passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
