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Shen Jiang Period Zero Timeline/Chronology 1823 - US issues the Monroe Doctrine warning against recolonization of the newly independent Spanish American republics 1824 - Last patriot victories against the Spaniards: Bolívar at Junín in August and Sucre at Ayacucho in December; Pedro writes a new Brazilian constitution 1830s - Rise of caudillos, self-interested military dictators backed by private armies 1831-1844 - Pedro I forced to abdicate. Brazil ruled by committee--the Regency--a time of political fragmentation 1850 - Clayton-Bulwer Treaty in which Great Britain and the US agree to maintain as neutral any Central American canal 1853 - With the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico, US acquires route for a railroad through southern Arizona and New Mexico 1854 - Opponents of slavery, or abolitionists, set up Republican Party. Ostend Manifesto urges that the US acquire Cuba from Spain, by force in necessary 1860-61 - Eleven pro-slavery southern states secede from Union and form Confederate States of America under leadership of Jefferson Davis, triggering civil war with abolitionist northern states. 1863 - Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free. 1865 - Confederates defeated; slavery abolished under Thirteenth Amendment. Lincoln is assassinated. 1865-70 - War of the Triple Alliance (Paraguayan War) Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay defeat Paraguay 1895 - US forces Great Britain into arbitration in its boundary dispute with Venezuela, asserting US dominance in the Western Hemisphere. 1898 - US gains Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and Cuba following the Spanish-American war. US annexes Hawaii. 1901 - Hay Pauncefote Treaty in which Great Britain cedes canal-building in Central America to the US 1903 - Theodore Roosevelt intervenes to assist Panamanian independence from Colombia 1909-12 - William Howard Taft promotes "Dollar Diplomacy," based on the erroneous belief that increased US investment will bring stability and economic prosperity to Latin America 1917 - Mexico's revolutionary leaders author a new constitution 1917-18 - US intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
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Title: sdafasdf
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Pages: 5.4
submitted by: arshasdlk
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