HISTORY 7B Lecture Notes - Mckinley Tariff, Platt Amendment, Waterboarding
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See map of us interventions in central and s america (there were a lot of them) some were about getting the canal built but panama belonged to. Colombia and so in 1903 they detached panama from colombia. Us arrived in asia in 1898 as an imperial power. Became a satellite of the us in 1875 due to the reciprocity treaty which allowed hawaiian sugar into the us without paying the tariff. (duty free sugar). Big spur in the hawaiian sugar industry it booms and american businessmen start establishing sugar plantations in hawaii. It was a disaster for the hawaiian economy. It was nominally an independent kingdom, but a weak king 1887 he signed a constitution that put american planters in charge of the island basically. That king died in 1881 then he was succeeded by his sister queen lilia alaquiani (see slide for spelling) She becomes queen in 1891 and starts a move to revise the constitution.
