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US FOREIGN POLICY 1865-1912 (+ organised labour)

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Spain cedes Florida

  • Monroe Doctrine issued

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    Texas annexed

  • USA offer Spain $130 million for Cuba

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    William Seward Secretary of State

  • Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado

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    Red Cloud's War

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    Fenian Raids

  • Alaska purchased by Seward for $7.2 million

  • Treaty of Medicine Lodge

  • Cuba revolts against Spanish leadership

  • Period: to

    Hamilton Fish Secretary of State

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    US attempts to establish a protectorate over DR

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    101 conflicts with Native Americans

  • Apache Wars end after Cochise agrees to a peace treaty

  • Cuba revolts a second time

  • Fish arranges trade deal with Hawaii

  • National Railway Strike

  • Fish concludes trade deal with Samoa

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    Geronimo's War

  • KoL's membership 100,000

  • KoL's membership 750,000 (before Haymarket Square)

  • Haymarket bomb outrage

  • Trade treaty with Hawaii extended, allowing US to create Pearl Harbour

  • Oklahoma Land Rush

  • First Pan-American conference

  • 'The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1600-1812' published

  • KoL's membership 100,000 tops

  • Cuba revolts successfully a third time

  • Spanish send 98,400 troops to join the 63,000 already on Cuba

  • Cuba declares its independence

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    Annexation of Hawaii

  • USS Maine blown up in Havana Harbour

  • 11th April - Teller Amendment passed

  • US attack on Philippines

  • 17000 US troops land on Cuba

  • Treaty of Paris enacted after being signed the previous December

  • Filipino revolt against US

  • Platt Amendment passed

  • Filipino revolt suppressed