Hawaii
The Philippines
Roosevelt and Panama
Asia: Japan & China
Spanish-American War
100
April 1959
When did Hawaii became a state?
100
Filipinos and Spanish Forces
Who was already in conflict before the American arrival?
100
10 years
How long did they need to finish the Panama Canal?
100
To claim territories in China and gain resources, to be able to trade with Japan
Why became America involved in China, why in Japan?
100
A Spanish constitutional mornachy
What was replaced by a republican government?
200
Captain Cook
Who saw Hawaiians first on his third voyage?
200
Filipinos homeland
1898 the Filipino had finally take what back?
200
Extensive naval power
What did Roosevelt want to accomplish through the Panama Canal?
200
1853
When did America forced Japan to sign a treaty permitting trade and the opening of Japanese ports to US merchant ships
200
4 months
How long lasted the conflict between Spain and the U.S.?
300
Sugar
What was the main resource Americans were interested in?
300
3 years
How long lasted the Filipino-American War?
300
Independence from Columbia and large sums of money from the U.S., providing many jobs in Panama
What are the long term effects?
300
-Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States claimed trading rights to different parts of China. -A group of Chinese nationalists known as Boxers targeted many citizens related to the foreign powers, killing many of them.
What are short term effects for China?
300
April 25, 1898
When declared the U.S. war on Spain?
400
July 4th,1894
When did Hawaii become a Republic?
400
End of 1897
The treaty which would retreat all the Rebels to Hong Kong, had been signed in which year?
400
50 miles
How long is the Panama Canal?
400
-The U.S, Russia, Britain, France, and Holland forced Japan to open trade with them by sending in military fleets and disarming anyone who defied them. -Japan restricted foreign ships to a small part in Nagasaki.
What are short term effects for Japan?
400
signing the treaty of Paris
what ended the Spanish American war ?
500
New England
First missionaries arrived from where?
500
U.S. Navy Commodore George Dewey
Who sended the rebels back into conflict with the Spanish forces in the Philippines?
500
Venezuela and Columbia
Before American arrival, who ruled Panama?
500
-Secretary of State, John Hay, created the Open Door policy, which guarantees equal trading rights in China to everyone. -The United States became an Asian power when they acquired the Phillipines.
What are long term effects for America?
500
to protect U.S. business interests in Cuba
What is one of the causes why America became involved?