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Spanish American war
Resulted in the united states ruleing of the former Spanish colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines.Also increased influence over Cuba. These territories captured in the Spanish-American war had a varied response toward U.S. occupation. -
The Philippine-American War
Two days before the U.S. Senate ratified the treaty, fighting broke out between American soldiers and Filipino soldiers led by Emilio Aguinaldo who wanted independence. The Philippine-American War lasted three years and resulted in the death of over 4,200 American and over 20,000 Filipino. Philippines wanted to be free and have their own country. -
Hay–Pauncefote Treaty
treaty signed by the United States and the United Kingdom before Panama Canal had been built. The Treaty gave the United States the right to create and control a canal across the Central American edge to connect to the pacific ocean and Atlantic ocean. -
Drago Doctrine
Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis María Drago in a diplomatic note to the United States. Realizing a conflict between the Monroe Doctrine and the influence of European imperial powers, and raising attention to the principle of equality which the United States had long supported it put in place the policy that no foreign power, including the United States, could use force against a Latin American nation to collect debt. -
Algeciras Conference
was located in Algeciras, Spain. The purpose of the conference was to find a solution to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 between France and the German Empire because Germany attempted to stop France from establishing a protectorate over Morocco in what was known as the Tangier Crisis. -
Niagara Falls conference
was a meeting of twenty-nine men on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls from July 11 until 14 July 1905. It was the first meeting of The Niagara Movement, a group of African-Americans, led by W. E. B. Du Bois, John Hope, and William Monroe Trotter. Helped in forming the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Treaty of Portsmouth
this treaty ended the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War. It lasted from August 6 to August 30 at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, United States.Theodore Roosevelt was the guy who got credit and won the Nobel Peace Prize. -
Border War
Mexico-United States border region of North America during the Mexican Revolution. United States Army in the control of them was General John J. Pershing who did an expedition into northern Mexico to find Vill and arrest him. The.operation was successful in finding Villista rebels and killing Villa's two top lieutenants, the revolutionary escaped and the American army returned to the United States. -
America enters World War 1
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives voted ant by a vote of 373 to 50 they wanted to go to war. so America formally enters World War I. -
14 points/U.S. will remain neutral
August 19 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson announces the U.S. will remain neutral.President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for peace in Europe. -
Infantry troops landed in france
14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France to begin training for combat. After four years of bloody stalemate, America’s well-supplied forces into the conflict made a major turning point in the war and helped the Allies to victory. War ended on November 11, 1918, two million American soldiers or more had served and some 50,000 of them died. -
Treaty of Versailles
one of the rules in the treaty was that "Germany to accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage" during the war. the treaty brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I signed different treaties.The fighting officially stopped after six months of Allied negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference to eventually sign the peace treaty. -
Emergency Quota Act
This act restricted immigration into the United States, it was meant to be temporary. The Act "proved, in the long run, the most important turning-point in American immigration policy" because it added two new things to American immigration law. numerical limits on immigration and the use of a quota system.They eventually revised this act by the immegration act of 1924 -
Chinese immigration act
This act banned all Chinese from immigrating into America because of the pearl harbor attack. This ban later got stripped because of it being unjust. -
Swains Island
part of Tokelau it is a part of the United States.Swains Island is also known as Olosenga Island. The United States decided to give the right of administration to Eli's daughter Ann and son Alexander and also made it officially part of American Samoa by annexation on 4 March 1925.
