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Alaska
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was the largest territoryadded to the U.S. after the civil war, U.S. wanted rights to fish. purchased from Russiain 1867, became a state in1959
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Cuba
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Cuba got independence from spain but were under american control from 1898 to 1902
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Philippines
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the peace treaty of the Spanish-American war made spain give the U.S. the philippines
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Guam
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the peace treaty of the Spanish-American war made spain give the U.S. Guam
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Puerto Rico
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the peace treaty of the Spanish-American war made spain give the U.S. Puerto Rico
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Hawaii
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American bissness wanted the U.S. to have hawaii so in 1893 the U.S. over through the Queen. Hawaiibecame a state in 1898
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Panama Canal Zone
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a strip of land across the isthmus of panama leased from the gov't of panama
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Panama Canal
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compleated in 1914 it is sexteamly important to shipping, it subtracted 7,800 miles from the previous distance ships had to go
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