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| CHAPTER 23 | AN AMERICAN EMPIRE | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1867 |
Purchase of Alaska |
| 1890 |
Mahan’s Influence of Seapower upon History |
| February 9, 1898 |
de Lôme letter revealed |
| February 15, 1898 |
Maine sunk |
| April 1898 |
War formally declared between Spain and the United States |
| April 1898 |
Teller Amendment |
| July 1898 |
Hawaii annexed |
| August 1898 |
Armistice officially ended Spanish-American War |
| December 1898 |
Treaty of Paris |
| 1899 |
Anti-Imperialist League formed |
| 1899 |
Open Door Note |
| 1901 |
Assassination of McKinley |
| 1901 |
Platt Amendment |
| September 6, 1901 |
William McKinley assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt became president |
| 1903 |
Panama Canal acquired |
| 1904 |
Roosevelt Corollary announced |
| 1904–1905 |
Russo-Japanese War |
| 1907 |
“Gentlemen’s Agreement” with Japan |
| August 1914 |
Panama Canal opened |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Explain why the United States pursued a policy of imperialism.
- Account for the outbreak of the Spanish-American War.
- Trace the course of U.S. relations with Latin America during the late
nineteenth century and its impact on later relations with Latin America.
- Contrast the arguments in 1899 for and against imperialism.
- Explain the development of America’s policy for dealing with its imperial
possessions.
- Discuss the acquisition of the Panama Canal.
- Assess the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard
Taft.
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