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1899 BCE
The New title
The US becomes an Empire -
New England missionaries arrived in Hawaii
The first missionaries to arrive in the Islands were Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Dutch Reformists from New England. Sailing in the Thaddeus, 14 missionaries (seven mission couples) and four Hawaiian boys left Boston, funded by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions -
American and German navies nearly came to blows
over the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific -
New Orleans crisis with italy
The lynching took place the day after the trial of nine of the nineteen men indicted in Hennessy's murder. Six of these defendants were acquitted, and a mistrial was declared for the remaining three because the jury failed to agree on their verdicts. There was widespread suspicion in the city that an Italian network of criminals was responsible for the killing of the police chief, in a period of anti-Italian sentiment and rising crime. -
The End of the Monarchy
Hawaii overthrows the Queen -
Sugar declines
The US tariffs on sugar crippled the money gained from it -
The Peace Treaty
The US and Spain negotiate a peace treaty in Paris -
Explanation
The US makes demands for Spain -
The beginning
The US sends battle ships to Cuba to protect the US citizens -
The Start of the War
The US declares war on Spain -
when the Maine mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor
One of the first American battleships, the Maine weighed more than 6,000 tons and was built at a cost of more than $2 million. Ostensibly on a friendly visit, the Maine had been sent to Cuba to protect the interests of Americans there after a rebellion against Spanish rule broke out in Havana in January. -
The Cuban Campaign
The US attacks Cuba -
The Mysterious Explosion
The US Main explodes -
To the Philippines
Dewey is ordered to attack the Philippines -
A ceasefire
Spain and the US signed a armistice -
The Foraker Act
Accorded Puerto Rico a limited degree of popular government -
Platt Amendment
The Cubans were forced to write into their own constitution -
The US in Cuba
The US leaves Cuba -
Period: to
Germany actually bombarded a town in delinquent Venezuela
Roosevelt feared that the Germans or British might remain in Latin America, in violation of he Monroe Doctrine -
Congress finally decided on the Panama route
President Roosevelt responded by dispatching U.S. warships to Panama City (on the Pacific) and Colón (on the Atlantic) in support of Panamanian independence. -
Unpaid Dept
Germany and England threaten to invade Venezuela -
The Japanese responded in 1904 with a devastating surprise pounce on the Russian fleet at Port Arthur exact date
he proceeded to administer a humiliating series of beatings to the inept Russians. But as the war dragged on, Japan began to run short of men and yen - a weakness it didn't want to betray to the enemy. Tokyo officials therefore approached Roosevelt in the deepest secrecy and asked him to help sponsor peace negotiations -
Showdown came in 1906 when the San Francisco’s school board ordered the segregation of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
n students in a special school to free more space for whites: -
The Lodge Corollary
The Lodge Corollary did not allow to but ports or territories in Latin countries -
The Foraker Act
Puerto Rico becomes a popular government
Everyone from Puerto Rico becomes a US citize