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Grant
Grant winss presidency over Seymour -
Fisk and Gould
Fisk and Gould pretty much hold back gold going out so that all the gold they have will go up in price because people are wanting it. -
Tweed
THe Tweed scandal begins in New york. -
Another act
Resumption Act is passed -
reconstruction
Reconstruction ends -
Garfield
garfield wins presidency over Hancock -
The end of Garfield
Garfield was assassinated and Auther takes over as president -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This is when the chinese were not allowed to come to America for a certain amount of time. -
Pendleton act
the pendleton act sets up the Civil Service Commission -
Cleveland
Blain was defeated by Cleveland for presidency -
Harrison
Harrison defeats Cleveland for presidency -
Thomas B. "Czar" Reed
Thomas ecomes speaker of the house of representatives -
Cleveland round two
Cleveland beats both Harrison and Weaver to take a second time as president -
J.P Morgans
Morgans banking syndicate loans 65 million in gold to federal government -
Plessy v. Ferguson
It it legitimized and this made like equal rights to thing but with the sepertion between blacks and whites -
Teller Amendment
this placed a condition on the united states military's presence in Cuba. -
New state!
Hawaii is annexed -
Spanish American War
Spain declared war on the U.S. because the U.S. supported Cuba's wish to be independent of Spanish rule. The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1898. Cuba was freed, the U.S. obtained the Philippines for $20 million, and Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to the U.S. -
OPen door policy
Fist note of the open door. The americans were scared to not be affiliated with china so they opened this so everyone had equal power to china. -
Foraker Act
The foraker act was formed for Puerto Rico. The Foraker act in the long run had any laws in the U.S carry over to puerto Rico. -
Mckinley for president
Mckinley defeats Bryan for presidency -
Boxer Rebellion
This was basically an attack on christian missionaries and they were stopped but this rebellion gave chinese nationalism and a drive to fight back. -
Hay Bunau varilla treaty
This graanted exclusive canal rights to the united states across the isthmus of panama in exchange for financial reimbursement. -
Roosevelt for president
At this time he was vice president but when Mckinley was assassinated he assumed presidency -
platt Amendment
It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of the U.S troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish American war -
Columbia
At the time colombia has control over panama and the senate rejected the canal treaty of 1902 -
cuba
The untited states troops leave cuba -
Roosevelt Corollary
Was an add on to the Monroe Doctrine saying that the US could intervene in any future financial issues -
The canal
This was the year they started the construction of the Panama Canal -
Root Takahira agreement
betweeen the U.S and the Empire of Japan. Settled a number of contentious points between them.
