History of the United States II / Unit 7 USH2 0906 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Modern Navy
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The idea
Heeding Mahan, Congress passed the Naval Act of eighteen ninety, setting production levels for a new, modern fleet.
In practice
By eighteen ninety-eight a fleet of one hundred sixty vessels, one hundred fourteen of them newly built of steel.
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The navy had six battleships where it had none before, and ranked among the world's top five naval powers by century's end.
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