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This island chain in the Pacific became the first and only US territory to have previously been a Kingdom.
What is Hawaii.
After previously serving as Undersecretary of the Navy and an officer of volunteers during the Spanish-American War, this individual was elected Vice-President in 1900, and became president upon the incumbent's assassination.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This project, completed in 1914, allows ships to pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans without going around the Cape of Storms.
What is the Panama Canal?
A brief but bloody conflict in which two world powers contested the fate of Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War?
Built in 1923 in honor of Lawrence High School students killed in World War 1, this building continues to serve as a school for Lawrence students.
What is Liberty Memorial Central Middle School?
This South American country refused to grant the United States permission to dig a canal through her territory, resulting in the US sponsoring an independence movement against the government.
What is Colombia?
Shot by an anarchist during the 1900 World's Fair, this president died from infection received by Doctors searching for the bullet in his body. No one thought to use the newly-invented X-ray machine being exhibited at the same World's Fair.
William McKinley.
In February 1898, this American ship became a catalyst to war after exploding in Havana Harbor.
What is the USS Maine?
In 1917, the United States almost went to war with this country after invading in pursuit of bandits, before US entry into WWI changed priorities.
What is Mexico?
This upscale restaurant in Lawrence's East side occupies buildings built as cavalry stables during the Civil War, in 1823.
What is Culinaria?
The only Spanish-speaking territory in SE Asia, this is where the first battle of the Spanish-American War was fought?
What are the Philippines?
A Hawaiian-born descendent of American missionaries, this individual became a key figure in the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and the annexation of Hawaii by the US. But he remains more famous for the fruit company he shared with his cousin.
Who is Sanford Dole?
A major social event in 1900, where President William McKinley caught a bullet from anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
What is the 1900 World's Fair.
The United States supported a bloodless revolution in this country in 1903, in exchange for a real estate deal that the previous government would not agree to.
What is Panama?
This local feature was named "Hogback Hill" by the first arrivals in what would become Lawrence, in 1854.
Mount Oread
This port city was seized by US Marines in 1914 after American sailors were arrested in Mexico.
What is Veracruz?
This Mexican bandit and revolutionary violated the boundary of the United States, hoping to provoke a war that would eliminate the Mexican government.
Who is Francisco "Pancho" Villa?
This action gave the United States a major Naval Base in the middle of the Pacific, later a catalyst to war itself.
What is the annexation of Hawaii?
After previously supporting rebels in this island chain against Spanish colonizers, the United States then became the colonizers and fought a long, bloody war against the same rebels.
What is the Philippines?
Lawrence and Manhattan were both originally going to be named after this East Coast city, though neither of them were.
What is Boston?
This small bay on Cuba's South Side was captured by the US during the Spanish-American War. It continues to be used as a US military base and infamous prison today.
What is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?
This monarch ruled an island chain in the Pacific, before revolutionaries placed her on house arrest and her Kingdom was annexed by the United States.
Who is Queen Lili'koulani?
Begun in 1904, this major engineering project took 10 years to complete, and changed the course of world events.
What is the construction of the Panama Canal?
Fought in 1904, this brief war established Japan as a new world power that could challenge major European empires.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Now located at 9th and Rhode Island Streets, this building was built as a social hall and gathering place for German immigrants, who were organized there to battle slavery in the 1850's.
What is the Lawrence Turnhalle?