APUSH Chronology William Taft-Herbert Hoover

events under the presidents from Taft to Hoover

Mann-Elkins Act

William Taft

NAACP (1909)

William Taft

Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)

William Taft

Jane Addams Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)

William Taft

Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy (1910)

William Taft

Angel Island opened (1910)

William Taft

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)

William Taft

Dollar Diplomacy-Nicaragua (1912)

William Taft

Supreme Court orders dissolution of Standard Oil

William Taft

Standard Oil v. New Jersey (1911)

William Taft

Progressive (Bull Moose) Party (1912)

William Taft

Moral Diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson

New Freedom

Woodrow Wilson

16th Amendment-income tax (1913)

Woodrow Wilson

17th Amendment-direct election of senators (1913)

Woodrow Wilson

Underwood Tariff (reduced traffic rates) (1913)

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Reserve Banking Act (1913)

Woodrow Wilson

WWI (1914-1918)

Woodrow Wilson

Panama Canal opened (1914)

Woodrow Wilson

Moral Diplomacy- Veracruz, Mexico

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)

Woodrow Wilson

Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)

Woodrow Wilson

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated (1914)

Woodrow Wilson

Moral Diplomacy-Haiti (1915)

Woodrow Wilson

Moral Diplomacy- Dominican Republic (1915)

Woodrow Wilson

Lusitania sunk (1915)

Woodrow Wilson

Sussex Pledge (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

John Dewey Democracy and Education (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

Moral Diplomacy- Mexico to find Pancho Villa (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in New York City (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

Keating-Owen Act (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

Time Zones implemented through nation (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

National Defense Act (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)

Woodrow Wilson

US troops withdraw from Mexico (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

Zimmerman Telegraph (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

U.S. enters WWI (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

Selective Service Act (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

War Industries Board (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

Committee on Public Information (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

Food Administration (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

Espionage Act (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

Bolshevik Revolution (1917)

Woodrow Wilson

World-wide influenza pandemic (1918)

Woodrow Wilson

Sedition Acts (1918)

Woodrow Wilson

Fourteen Points (1918)

Woodrow Wilson

Armistice (1918)

Woodrow Wilson

18th Amendment-Prohibition (1919)

Woodrow Wilson

Volstead Act (1919)

Woodrow Wilson

A. Mitchell Palmer raids/Red Scare (1919-20)

Woodrow Wilson

19th Amendment-women suffrage (1920)

Woodrow Wilson

Treaty of Versailles with League of Nations (1919)

Woodrow Wilson

Schenck v. U.S. (1919)

Woodrow Wilson

Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles (1920)

Woodrow Wilson

American Civil Liberties Union established (1920)

Woodrow Wilson

U.S. v. United States Steel Co. (1920)

Woodrow Wilson

Sinclair Lewis Main Street (1920)

Woodrow Wilson

Radio broadcasting begins (1920)

Woodrow Wilson

Normalcy

Warren Harding

Revenue Act (1921)

Warren Harding

Budget and Accounting Act (1921)

Warren Harding

Emergency Quota Act [quota system] (1921)

Warren Harding

Washington Naval Arms Conference (1921-22)

Warren Harding

Five Power Treaty, Four Power Treaty

Warren Harding

Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act (higher tariffs) (1922)

Warren Harding

Sinclair Lewis Babbitt (1922)

Warren Harding

Charles Forbes and VA scandal (1923)

Warren Harding

Teapot Dome Scandal (1923)

Warren Harding

Domestic Policy- Laissez-faire or non-intervention

Calvin Coolidge

National Origins Act (1923)

Calvin Coolidge

Immigration Act (1924)

Calvin Coolidge

Harlem Renaissance

Calvin Coolidge

Scopes Trial (1925)

Calvin Coolidge

Florida real estate boom (1925)

Calvin Coolidge

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)

Calvin Coolidge

Theodore Dreiser An American Tragedy (1925)

Calvin Coolidge

Created the Federal Radio Commission (1926)

Calvin Coolidge

U.S. troops in Nicaragua (1926)

Calvin Coolidge

Charles A. Lindbergh begins epic flight (1927)

Calvin Coolidge

Sacco and Vanzetti were executed (1927)

Calvin Coolidge

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Calvin Coolidge

Ford’s Model A introduced (1927)

Calvin Coolidge

Vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm bill (1927)

Calvin Coolidge

Kellogg Brian’s Pact (1928)

Calvin Coolidge

Stock Market Crash (1929)

Herbert Hoover

William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Herbert Hoover

Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Herbert Hoover

Depression

Herbert Hoover

Hoovervilles

Herbert Hoover

Federal Farm Board (1929)

Herbert Hoover

Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930

Herbert Hoover

Debt Moratorium

Herbert Hoover

Emergency Committee for employment (1931)

Herbert Hoover

Vetoed Muscle Shoals Bill (1931)

Herbert Hoover

Scottsboro case (1931)

Herbert Hoover

Japan invades Manchuria (1931)

Herbert Hoover

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)

Herbert Hoover

Bonus Marchers (1932)

Herbert Hoover