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Purchase of Alaska
Alaska is bought by the United States from Russia at a cost of two cents per acre. Russia was also struggling with debt from the Crimean War and needed quick money, so they sold Alaska for a very cheap price to the US. -
Yellow Journalism
Was a type of journalism that didn't use facts or information to persuade readers, but rather used pictures and propoganda to influence peoples opinions. -
Takeover in Hawaii
Americans take over Hawaii from it's native inhabbitants and make it an American territory. It had plentifull recourses and was lead by queen Liliuokalani before the americans took it from her. -
Spanish American War
Americans thought that the Spanish had a tyrannical rule over the cubans and were pushed to a boilng point when on February 15th 1898 a ship that America had sent over to spy on the Spaniards mysteriously blew up. -
American Anti-imperialist League
The American Anti-imperialist league was established on June 15th 1898. It was a group of people that believed imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from "consent of the governed." Rather than opposing American territorial expansion on economic or humanitarian grounds. -
America claims Guam
America claims Guam -
America claims Puerto Rico
We still have Puerto Rico as a territory today -
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough RIders
Teddy Roosevelt left from the navy to start a group called the Rough Riders who were the first voluntary calvary that ventured into Cuba to fight the Spanish in the Spanish American War. -
Boxer Rebellion
Some Chinese people were starting to get sick of the Americans in their territory. So a rebellion started out of fear of hostile takeover like so many places before china that the US had taken over. The rebellion was named The Boxer Rebellion. It didnt last too long however and the Americans reigned supreme when it ended in September 1901 -
Open door Policy with China
Trading with China openly to rebild America's economy after the Spanish American War. Basically we openly traded with China and restrained anyone else from interfering with us. -
Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy
Roosevelt's big stick diplomacy meant basically to use millitary muscle when needed but to keep quiet other wise. You can see what I mean through this quote by President Roosevelt himself "speak softly, and always carry a big stick." -President Roosevelt -
America claims Phillipines
America claims Phillipines after a rough time capturing it -
The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a civil war of the Mexican people on the two sides of Francisco I. Madero for the revolution against Porfirio Díaz. The revolutionaries were put down and Portfolio Diaz eventually won and maintained his rule -
America claims neutrallity in WWI
Americans thought that the war in Europe was far away and didn't involve them. They claimed neutrallity on August 4th 1914 with a vast majority. But with unrestricted warfare in the Atlantic and American ships being caught in the crossfires the US started to get annoyed. -
America gets involved in South American Countries and builds the Panama Canal
America builds the panama canal and took it over from the French who had started it but not finished it yet. We took it over in 1904 and finished and opened it on August 15th 1914 -
America Joins WWI
Americans had generally wanted to stay out of a far away war between other countries but had no choice to declare war on Germany on April 4th 1915 with an 82 to 6 senate vote after Germany had called for unrestricted warfare in the Atlantic and US ships had gotten caught in the crossfires of German vessels. -
Woodrow Wilson's 14 points
The "Fourteen Points" was a 8 January 1918 statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. The Europeans welcomed Wilson's intervention but were skeptical of the applicability of his ideas.
