unit 7 pt 1

1820s- Hawaii

• Convert to Christianity and American planters buy land

1887- Pearl Harbor Naval base established

1890- “How the Other Half Lives” Jacob Riis

• Horrors of the slums

1890s- America becomes a global power

1891- Forest Reserve Act

• Protect 150 million acres of federal land

1892- Sierra Club-John Mierre

1893- Queen Liliuokalani overthrown by plantation owners

1895- Anti-Saloon League

• Legal prohibition of alcohol

1895- Booker T. Washington Atlanta Exposition Speech

• Blacks should acquire vocational skills/established Tuskegee Institute

  • Not directly challenging white supremacy

1898- William McKinley annexes Hawaii

1898- De Lome Letter

• Disrespecting McKinley, starting war

1898- Maine Explodes

Start of spanish american war 

• US, Cuba, Philippines vs. Spain

1898- Teller Amendment

US has no intention of taking over Cuba

1898- End of Spanish American War

1898- Treaty of Paris 1898

• US acquired Guam, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippines

1899- Guerilla war between Philippines and US

1899- Open Door Policy

• All nations should have equal trading privileges in China

1899- Boxer Rebellion

• Attempt to remove foreign influence of China

1900- Foraker Act 

• Puerto Rico granted limited degree of popular gov., withheld full self rule

1901- TR Presidency

1901- Platt Amendment

• US can intervene in Cuba, can maintain a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, and Cuba couldn’t sign a treaty with a foreign power that limited independence

1902- Newlands Reclamation Act

• Money from sale of public lands could be used for western irrigation projects

1902- Coal Miners strike

• TR threatens to take over mines with federal troops to help workers

1902- “History of stanford oil company” Ida Tarbell

1902- England sends warships to Venezuela

• Latin American countries owed money to England and Germany

1903- W.E.B Dubois “Souls of Black Folk”

• Rejected gradualism/demanded immediate equality

1903- Hay Bunau Varilla Treaty

• Gives US right to build Panama Canal

1903- Elkins Act

• Increased penalties for rate rebates

1904- breaking Northern Securities Company (railroad monopoly)

• Upheld by Supreme Court

1904- “Shame of the Cities”

• Exposed political corruption/political machines

1905- Niagara Movement

• Advocated for black rights

1905- Roosevelt received nobel peace prize

• For helping negotiate a peace agreement ending Russo-Japanese war

1905- “The Jungle” Upton Sinclair

• Increase support for socialism and workers rights by exposing unsanitary nature of meat industry

1906- Meat Inspection Act

• Fed gov would regulate meat industry

1906- pure food and drug act

• Created fda and labeled food

1906- Hepburn Act

• Gave interstate commerce commission power to set max rates for railroads

1907-1908- Great White Fleet

• TR sends new fleet of US battleships on trip around the world

1908- Muller v. Oregon 

• Laws protecting women workers constitutional

1908- Gentlemen’s Agreement

• TR pressure CA to repeal discriminatory law and Japan would restrict emigration of Japanese workers to US

1908- William Howard Taft Presidency

1909- Payne Aldrich Tariff

• Raised rates and angered progressives

1909- NAACP

• National association for the advancement of colored people

1911- Triangle shirtwaist fire

1912- 17th Amendment

• Voters directly vote for US Senators 

1912- Election

Taft wins Republican nomination 

TR forms Bull Moose progressive party

Woodrow Wilson on “New Freedom”

Eugene Debs socialist

1912- Woodrow Wilson Presidency

1913- Underwood Tariff

• Lowered rates of tariffs

1913- Federal Reserve Act

• Regulating money

  • After economic panics demonstrated problem of limited money supply

1913- 16th Amendment

• Graduated income tax established

1914- Panama Canal Completed

1914- Federal Trade Commission

• presidential appointed commission investigates monopolies

  • Exempted labor union prosecution

1914- CLayton Antitrust Act

• Increased power of Sherman Antitrust

1914- WORLD WAR ONE

1915- Lusitania sunk

• British passenger ship with 128 Americans sunk by U-boats

1916- Federal Farm Loan Act

• Low rate loans to farmers

1916- Arrest of Pancho Villa

• Wilson sends General John J. Pershing and an expeditionary force

1916- National Women’s Party

• Alice Paul broke from NAWSA/more radical and extreme 

1916- Sussex sunk

1916- Election of 1916

• Wilson wins

1917- Zimmerman Note

• Germany asking Mexico to attack US to recover territory

1917- Congress declares war against Germany

1917- Selective Service Act

• Organized federal draft of soldiers

1919-  18th Amendment

• Temperance

1920- 19th Amendment

• Women’s suffrage