Real Estate
This land was acquired from Russia for $7.2million dollars.
Alaska
Germany
No
Reformer who spoke softly but carried a big stick.
Theodore Roosevelt
Women’s Suffrage
19th Amendment (1920)
Stock Market Crash (Great Depression Begins)
FDR Supreme Court Packing
Stock Market Crash (1929)
Court Packing (1937)
This island chain was acquired through a sweet (but questionable) business deal.
Hawaii
Great Britain
Yes
Implemented the Smoot-Hawley Tariff.
Herbert Hoover
Prohibition
18th Amendment (1919)
Zimmerman Telegram
RMS Lusitania is Sunk
RMS Lusitania (1915)
Telegram (1917)
Purchased from Spain for $20million. A war for control of the islands followed.
Philippines
France
Yes
“Silent” pro-business president
Calvin Coolidge
Income Tax
16th Amendment (1913)
US Enters WWI
Women’s Suffrage
US Enters WWI (1917)
Suffrage (1920)
Surrendered by Spain after two shots were fired by a US Navy vessel.
Guam
Italy
No - maybe - yes
Wanted Peace without Victory in WWI
Woodrow Wilson
Direct election of senators
17th Amendment (1913)
Immigration Quotas
Philippine Insurrection
Philippine Insurrection (1899 - 1901)
Quotas (1921/ 1924)
Island to the east of Hispaniola which became a US territory after the Spanish-American War.
Puerto Rico
Russia
Yes - until they quit to have their own revolution
Split Republicans by “busting” the steel trust.
William Taft
Repealed Prohibition
21st Amendment (1933)
FDR’s New Deal
Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War (1898)
New Deal (1933)