Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1886
  • U.S. begins building modern battleships

1892
  • U.S.-backed planters overthrow Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani

1895
  • United States arbitrates border dispute between Britain and Venezuela

  • Guerrilla war against Spanish rule begins in Cuba

1898
  • War between United States and Spain

  • United States annexes Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Guam

1899–1902
  • U.S.-Philippine War, ending in U.S. occupation of Philippines

  • United States pursues open door policy in China

1900
  • United States helps suppress nationalist rebellion in China (“Boxer Rebellion”)

1901
  • Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

1902
  • Platt Amendment gives U.S. exclusive role in Cuba

1903
  • U.S. recognizes Panama’s independence from Colombia

1905
  • Russo-Japanese War; Roosevelt mediates peace

1908
  • Root-Takahira Agreement

1914
  • Panama Canal opens

  • U.S. military action in Veracruz, Mexico

  • World War I begins in Europe

1916
  • Jones Act commits United States to future Philippine independence

1917
  • United States declares war on Germany and its allies, creates new agencies to mobilize economy and promote national unity

  • Espionage Act

1918
  • Sedition Act

  • World War I ends

  • Beginning of two-year influenza pandemic that kills 50 million people worldwide

1919
  • Schenck v. United States and Abrams v. United States

  • Wilson promotes Fourteen Points at Paris Peace Conference

  • Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles

1920
  • Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage

Question

AQ3gLpLxPv4YRfjs9Ph7y9BtLXH9rgjhKibmROPO6xO6iVRMKjbxTE0u+dNHONhjiapbAfC5XLs8HXTXj3ZzCkg5kjCg9DoMzi7S8atixXog6AJB/D75scaiLZJV3CBezW+Gy1USUVfb6nn7kH2R7DCIvnQPPK/Cd+xcnYsDv7bhoEhIVIlAr5eWyUcyDz7IynLOiqobgD5BTlGLNOanWQoRrcsNXE7rHsZtCCkKb2uhsBxS0KLlFDV5JhTSPl6vBTXrTfIJ3ZX1bG1PiEUY9yyLHozqwf80P75J9AMC99M498XMXRLlEyikn1/G8lBO7HcKcJtX1B5MprZRTTEP/N7xCUF0+Va8SYknzoH25VERtOxWOHPwjOpV2sInriQNNchx/GTZwdEZ4mkIz4w+En9BW/F1bdd2VuftCmMAB4ljbAnDOGPegGvSeSxFLO/kw3DcSk+B3a25lOis2qPhe//lXaT20Rnb