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The Boxer Rebellion
proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing Western imperialism and Christianity -
McKinley Tariff
A law that increased tariffs on some goods in the United States -
Teller Amendment
Placed a condition of the US military in Cuba -
Spanish American War
A conflict over Cuban indepedence -
Annexation of Hawaii
Hawaii's sovereignty was transferred to the United States -
Annexation of the Philippines
US tried to manage the Philippines and buy for 20 Million. Philippines would reject our troops -
U.S. and the Panama Canal
Phillipe Bunau-Varilla, Panama's ambassador to the United States, signed the Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty, granting rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal. -
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal -
Dollar Diplomacy
efforts to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries -
Roosevelt Corollary
An extension of the Monroe Doctrine that asserted the right of the United States to intervene to "stabilize" 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 United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
