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McKinley Tariff
Tariff on some goods imported into the United States. It Was reported to Congress on May 21, 1890. It increased duties on wool, woolen manufactures, on tin plate, barley and some other agricultural products and remitted the duty on raw sugar. -
Teller Amendment
A disclaimer on the part of the United States in 1898 of any intention "to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control" over the island of Cuba when it should have been freed from Spanish rule. Henry M. Teller of Colorado and adopted, 19 April as an amendment to the joint resolution declaring Cuba independent and authorizing intervention. -
Annexiation of Hawaii
Hawaii was becoming more important as a commercial export resource and as a strategic location for defense in the Pacific region. The United States was also becoming concerned about the possibility that Hawaii might become part of a European nation's empire, possibly Great Britain or France. When Queen Liliuokalani proposed a new Hawaiian constitution 1893, that would restore the power of the Hawaiian monarchy. -
Spanish American War
Information about Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, and the United States is provided in chronologies, bibliographies, and a variety of pictorial and textual material from bilingual sources, supplemented by an overview essay about the war and the period. Presidents Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as Admiral George Dewey and author Mark Twain (United States), -
The Boxer Rebellion
also known as "The Righteous and Harmonious Fists," were a religious society that had originally rebelled against the imperial government in Shantung in 1898. They practiced rituals and spells which made them believe that they were impervious to bullets and pain. A War against the Europeans. In response to imperialist expansion and missionary evangelism, local organizations began -
Annexiation of the Philipines
The Philippine–American War, also known as the Philippine War of Independence or the Philippine Insurrection (1899–1902), The war was part of a series of conflicts in the Philippine struggle for independence, preceded by the Philippine Revolution and the Spanish-American War -
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Territory
agreement between the United States and Panama granting exclusive canal rights to the United States across the Isthmus of Panama in exchange for financial reimbursement and guarantees of protection to the newly established republic. -
Great White Fleet
The "Great White Fleet" sent around the world by President Theodore Roosevelt from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 consisted of sixteen new battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. The battleships were painted white except for gilded scrollwork on their bows. The Atlantic Fleet battleships only later came to be known as the "Great White Fleet." -
Dollar Diplomacy
A policy aimed at furthering the interests of the United States abroad by encouraging the investment of U.S. capital in foreign countries. -
The Panama Canal
The handover is supposedly the final step in a transition which has been occurring over the past 20 years, since the 1978 ratification by the United States Senate of two treaties known as the Carter-Torrijos Treaties. For those opposed to the treaties, the Panama Canal was a symbol of American power, and the debate of giving it up was occurring too soon after the American experience in Vietnam. The thought of surrendering control of the Canal meant for those opposed that an anti-Vietnam spirit
