American Imperialism Timeline

An act of the United States Congress framed by Representative William McKinley that became law on October 1, 1890.

the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing which set off a series of bank failures.

The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900.

The Spanish–American War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898.

After its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898, Spain ceded its longstanding colony of the Philippines to the United States in the Treaty of Paris.

a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, which established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal.

United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors.

The popular nickname for the powerful United States Navy battle fleet that completed a journey around the globe from December 16 1907, to February 22 1909, by order of United States President Theodore Roosevelt.

during President William Howard Taft's term, was a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries.