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Unites States Annexes HawaiiUnites States Annexes Hawaii
In 1893 the last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Lili'uokalani, was overthrown by party of businessmen, who then imposed a provisional government. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex the Hawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification. -
Spanish American War Starts
The Spanish–American War, was fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba leading to The united states retaliating. -
Spanish America War Ends
In France, the Treaty of Paris is signed, formally ending the Spanish-American War and granting the United States its first overseas empire. -
United States builds naval base at Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor, naval base and headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Honolulu county, southern Oahu Island, Hawaii, U.S. In U.S. history the name recalls the surprise Japanese air attack on December 7, 1941, that temporarily crippled the U.S. Fleet and resulted in the United States’ entry into World War II. Pearl Harbor centers on a cloverleaf-shaped, artificially improved harbor on the southern coast of Oahu, 6 miles (10 km) west of Honolulu. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president after McKinley is assassinated
Assassination of William McKinley. ... On September 6, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. He was shaking hands with the public when Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, shot him twice in the abdomen.
