List the following major events of imperialism in chronological order, noting the year of each event:

• australia becomes an independent commonwealth
• britain annexes new zealand
•filipino us conflict
• meiji restoration
• new zealand becomes independent
• russo japanese war
•sino japanese war
• spanish american war
• united states annexes hawaii
• united states warships arrive in japan demanding that japan open its port to trade

Britain annexes New Zealand 1838

United States warships arrive in Japan demanding that Japan opens its port trade 1853

New Zealand becomes independent 1853

Meiji restoration 1868

Sino Japanese war 1894

United States annexes Hawaii  1898

Spanish American war 1898

Australia becomes an independent commonwealth January 01 1901

Filipino US conflict 1899 1902

Russo Japanese war 1904 1905

nativists tried to get rid of the immigrants as they thought they were going to ruin the u.s.  

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: