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New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii
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Samoa crisis with GermanyPan-American Conference
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Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History
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New Orleans crisis with Italy
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Valparaiso crisis with Chile
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Sierra Club founded
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Pribilof Islands dispute with CanadaWhite planter revolt in HawaiiCleveland refuses Hawaii annexation
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Cubans revolt against Spain
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Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britain
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5 events
Maine explosion in Havana harbor
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment
Dewey's victory at Manila Bay
Hawaii annexed -
3 events
Senate ratifies treaty acquiring Philippines
Aguinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines
First American Open Door note -
National Consumers League founded
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5 events
Hawaii receives full territorial status
Foraker Act for Puerto Rico
Boxer Rebellion and U.S. military expedition to China
Second Open Door note
McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency -
5 events
Supreme Court Insular Cases
Platt Amendment
McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president
Filipino rebellion suppressed
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain gives United States exclusive right to build Panama Canal -
3 events
Commission system established in Galveston, Texas
Progressive Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin
American Socialist Party of America formed -
2 events
U.S. troops leave Cuba
Colombian senate rejects U.S. por postal for canal across Panama -
3 events
Lincoln Steffens and Ida Tarbell publish muckraking exposés
Anthracite coal strike
New lands Act -
2 events
Panamanian revolution against Colombia
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives United States control of Canal Zone in newly independent Panama -
2 events
Department of Commerce and Labor established Elkins Act
Women's Trade Union League founded -
Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
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2 events
Northern Securities case
Roosevelt wins election to first full term as president -
Period: to
Construction of Panama Canal
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2 events
United States takes over Dominican Republic customs service
Roosevelt mediates Russo-Japanese peace treaty -
Lochner v. New York
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2 events
San Francisco Japanese education crisis
Roosevelt arranges Algeciras Conference -
4 events
Hepburn Act
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act -
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U.S. Marines occupy cuba
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Great White Fleet makes world voyage
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"Roosevelt panic"
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Period: to
"Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan
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Root-Takahira agreement
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3 events
Muller v. Oregon
Taft defeats Bryan for presidency
Aldrich-Vreeland Act -
Payne-Aldrich tariff
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2 events
Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Washington State grants woman suffrage -
4 events
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
Standard Oil antitrust case
U.S. Steel Corporation antitrust suit
California grants woman suffrage -
4 events
Taft wins Republican nomination over Roosevelt
Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency
Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon grant woman suffrage
Children's Bureau established in Department of Labor -
3 events
Seventeenth Amendment passed (direct election of U.S. senators)
Federal Reserve Act
San Francisco decides to build HetchHetchy Reservoir -
4 events
Underwood Tariff Act
Sixteenth Amendment (income tax)
Federal Reserve ct
Huerta takes power in Mexico -
4 events
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Federal Trade Commission established
U.S. Seizes port of Veracruz, Mexico
World War I begins in Europe -
3 events
La Follette Seaman's Act
Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat
Germany declares submarine war area around British Isles -
10 events
Sussex ultimatum and pledge
U.S. exports to European belligerents skyrocket
Workingmen's Compensation Act
Federal Farm Loan Act
Warehouse Act
Adamson Act
Pancho Villa raids New Mexico
Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court
Jones Act
Wilson defeats Hughes for presidency -
Puerto Ricans granted U.S. citizenship
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7 events
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
Zimmermann note
Railroads placed under federal control
United States enters World War I
Espionage Act of 1917
Wilson calls for "peace without victory"
Bolshevik Revolution -
5 events
Wilson proposes Fourteen Points
Sedition Act of 1918
Battle of Château-Thierry
Second Battle of the Marne
Meuse-Argonne offensive -
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Armistice ends World War IWorldwide influenza pandemic
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Women's Bureau established in Department of Labor