Immigration
Most immigrants worked in these places upon arriving the United States.
Factories
American missionaries travelled to almost every country in this region to establish hospitals and western style universities.
The Middle East.
This league was founded to protest American Imperialism.
Anti-Imperialist League.
This bill regulated Chinese immigration into the U.S.
The Chinese Exclusion Act.
This popular fertilizer resulted in an act in 1856 which authorized and encouraged Americans to venture into the seas and claim islands.
Guano.
This man travelled to the Middle East in 1867, along with a large tour group of Americans, and wrote a satirical travelogue titled The Innocents Abroad.
Mark Twain
These three groups of immigrants increased in arrivals as Irish and German immigrants dwindled.
Italians, Poles, and Eastern European Jews.
The United States gained these three territories as a result of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars.
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
The first Christian American Missionaries arrived in this territory in 1820.
Hawaii
In this instance in 1886, immigrants were accused of killing police officers in a bomb blast.
Chicago Haymarket Affair.
This U.S. ship was was sent to the bottom of the ocean in Havana harbor in February of 1898.
Maine
In this policy in 1899, secretary of state John Hay called for all Western powers to have equal access to Chinese markets.
The Open Door Policy