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Coming into Hawaii
The first New England missionaries reached Hawaii in 1820. Beginning in the 1840s the state department warned countries to stay out of Hawaii. Sugar imports from Hawaii became less profitable when the McKinley tariffs of 1890. -
Cuba's rise
Cuba revolted against Spain in 1895. Cuban insurrectos burned sugar canefields hoping that Spain would abandon Cuba or that the United States would help them. -
McKinley and Hawaii
McKinley didn't want to give Hawaii to the Spanish, but he didn't want to leave the island to themselves. He decided to christianize and educate the Filipinos -
Maine explosion
American ship, Maine blew up in Havana port? While the Spanish claimed it was an accident, the Americans claimed that Spain sunk it. Americans did not believe the Spanish and war was declared. -
Panama canal
Americans wanted to build a canal through the Central American isthmus in order to allow ships to quickly cross from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. Congress decided to build a canal through Panama. The construction began in 1904 and was completed in 1914 at a cost of 400 million dollars -
Japanese laborers in California
Thousands of Japanese were recruited to work in California after the Japanese government lifted its immigration ban in 1884. Japanese immigrants were confronted with racist hostilities by whites in 1906. San Francisco School Board segregated in the Chinese Japanese and Korean students to make room for white students. the Japanese saw this action as an insult and threatened with War President Roosevelt step in and persuaded The Californians to repeal the segregation.