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The Spanish American War
This war provided america with spanish land and also wiped out the colonization of the spanish culture. -
Cuba declares Independence
This officially declared Cuba to not be apart of the United States anymore, losing a whole island. -
The Gold Standard Act
This act stopped the way of bimetallism. -
Passing the Platt Amendment
This act removed the people that were in cuba at the time, taking the military out of there. -
2nd Inauguration of Mckinley
This let teddy roosevelt become president because of him being mckinley's vice president. He then was then assasinated, which then makes the vice president president. -
President Mckinley Assasinated
This sparked when teddy roosevelt finally went into office as the president of the united states. -
The First Major League World Series of Baseball
This marked a big thing in the sports industry, sparking the liking of sports to be alot more common than ever before. -
The US acquires the Panama Canal Zone
This permited shippers of commercial goods, ranging from automobiles to grain, to save time and money by transporting cargo more quickly between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. -
The Wright Brothers First Flight
This first shown that a whole new way of travel is possible, and opened up many ways to do new things. -
2nd Inauguration of Teddy Roosevelt
This gave him a chance to help out labor laws while he is on his second term in office. -
"The Jungle" By Upton Sinclair
This exposed the working conditions in the meat packing industry. This then was acted upon to fix. -
San Francisco Earthquake
This earthquake significance all came from how powerful this was. Its still ranked very highly on how powerful the earthquake really is. Also, scientists found alot of scientific knowledge that derived from this. -
The Antiquities Act is passed
Roosevelt used this act to help him being able to protect wildlife and public lands that he has created over his years in office. -
Oklahoma is admitted as a State
This state was used for also for Indian territory, where those people are safe to live and have their land. -
The NAACP is Established
This helped push forward the black rights movement and also new activist like Dubois and Storey come forward. -
Inauguration of William Howard Taft
He first established the united states postal savings system. -
The RMS Lusitania makes its First Voyage
This boat was eventually sunken by a German U-boat, angering alot of americans of unlawful shots at the boat.