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McKinley Tariff
The law permitted all countries to ship sugar duty free to the United States and gave sugar producers in the United States a subsidy of two cents per pound causing sugar prices to drop, and the Hawaiian economy suffered. -
Seward's Folly
America buying Alaska from the Russians. -
Alaska Purchase
This purchase marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade to the Pacific coast of North America because Russia believed selling Alaska would off-set the designs with Great Britain. -
Venezuela Dispute
a boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain because Venezuela claimed that Britain was enroaching on Venezuela's soil by the clashing of opinions between Venezuela and Britain -
Hawaii Annexed
The U.S. passing a treaty making the Hawaiian Islands officially apart of the U.S. because when the U.S.S Maine was exploded the Spanish-American War began; therefore, the U.S. needed a Pacific fueling location. -
Sinking of the USS Maine
The Maine was suddenly blown up at the anchor in Havana Harbor. -
Spanish American War
Conflict between the United States and Spain for an Explosion of a U.S. ship that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America. -
Philippines Intervention
War between the First Philippine Republic and the U.S. because Americans and the Filipinos disagreed on Philippine becoming under the rule of the U.S. -
Boxer Rebellion
A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonized Fists because Westerners intruding, and the weakness of the Qing Dynasty. -
Drago Doctrine
The doctrine held that international law did not authorize European powers to use armed intervention to force American republics to pay public debts. -
U.S. and the Panama Canal
in 1901 secretary of state john hay began negotiations with the republic of Columbia, which then included panama. The US paid Columbia $10 million and a yearly rent of $250,000. -
Roosevelt Corollary
Stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States. -
The Great White Fleet
Concerned by Japan's growing power, Roosevelt decided to remind the Japanese of US military might. In the late 1907, he sent a fleet of 4 destroyers and 16 battleships on a 46,000 mile world cruise -
Dollar Diplomacy
A form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Panama Canal
A 48-mile canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean used to shorten the distance that ships had to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean under the instruction of President Theodore Roosevelt