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Alaska purchased from Russia

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October - McKinley Tariff is enacted

Alfred T Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power

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Basketball is invented

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First bottles of Coca-Cola sold in America

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Queen Liliuokalani forced to give up her throne.

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January - Utah officially becomes a state

February - General Veleriano Weyler takes control of Cuba

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March - William McKinley elected President for the first time.

April - First Boston marathon is held

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February - De Lome letter published by New York Journal
USS Maine explodes

April - War with Spain declared

May - Theodore Roosevelt resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy to join the war effort

July - Hawaii annexed as US territory.
Rough Riders successfully take San Juan Hill

October - Treaty of Paris is approved in the Senate ending war with Spain

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William McKinley elected President for a second term

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McKinley assassinated

Theodore Roosevelt elected President

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Theodore Roosevelt issues the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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Pearl Harbor Naval Base is commissioned

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July - World War 1 starts

August - Panama Canal is finished

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President Wilson orders military to go after Pancho Villa in Mexico