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  This purchase marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade to the Pacific coast of North America.
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  Caused by excessive building and over-speculation as well as a continued agricultural depression along with the free coining of silver and the collecting of debts by European banking houses, this was the worst economic downturn of the nineteenth century.
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  A boundary dispute between Venezuela and Britain.
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  The Maine was suddenly blown up at the anchor in Havana Harbor on the night of February 15th, 1898
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  President William McKinley sets a tax on all foreign goods.
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  The U.S. passing a treaty making the Hawaiian Islands officially apart of the U.S.
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  A war between Spain and the U.S started.
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  An organization established in the United States on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area.
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  Claimed that the US would not establish permanent control over Cuba.
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  was a land engagement which took place in Manila.
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  A war between the First Philippine Republic and the U.S.
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  US proposed to everyone about the foreign affairs of China.
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  A Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonized Fists.
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  US gained territory from Philippines after they helped rebels fight and gain their freedom from Spain.
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  Establish the Panama Canal Zone and the construction of the Panama Canal.
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  International law that rejects the right of a country to use force against another country to collect debts.
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  Addition to the Monroe Doctrine and stated that the US would intervene in any social affairs as a last resort in the Western Hemisphere.
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  Completed a journey around the globe and this date was they day they were deployed and they were ran by President Theodore Roosevelt.
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  During President William Howard Taft's term, was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.
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  A 48-mile canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.