Important Policy

  • Russo-Japanese War = 1905

  • Naval Expansion = 11 to 36 war ships

  • Latin American investments = 1.2 billon dollars

  • Germany reparations = 32 billon dollars

  • Rhineland = DMZ in germany

  • Germany losses = 13 percent of land and 10 percent of people

  • Collective Security Agreement = if one country attacked, all others will support in League of Nations

  • Great Migration = about 1.5 million African Americans moved

  • WW1 = 370,000 African Americans served

  • NAACP = 9,000 members to 91,000 members

  • Lynching = nearly doubled from 1917-1918

  • Racially motivation violence = 25 cities from 1919 - 1925

  • Direct relief = 3 billion dollars

  • Works Progress Administration = work relief giving 8.5 million jobs from 1935-1943

  • Agricultural Adjustment Act

  • National Recovery Administration

  • National Bank Holiday = 1933

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • Securities and Exchange Commission

  • Social Security Act

  • Northern and Western Europe = pre 1890s

  • Southern and Eastern Europe = post 1890s

  • Emergency Quote Act of 1921 = 3% of 1910 census

  • Immigration Act of 1924 =2% of 1890 census

  • Era of Washington = 1895 - 1917

  • 1902 United Mine Workers Strike

  • Railroad Regulation = 1906

  • Pure Food and Drug Act = 1906

  • Meat Inspection Act = 1906

  • Clayton Antitrust Act = 1914

  • Federal Trade Commission

  • Federal Reserve System = 1913

  • Espionage Act = 1917

  • Sedition Act = 1918

  • Women in WW1 = 25,000 in Europe and 1 million in US

  • 19th amendment = 1920

  • Labor Wars = 24,000 strikes from 1877-1900

  • Gilded Age = 1877-1900

  • Progressive Era = 1900-1920

  • New Era = 1920s

  • Great Depression and New deal 1930-1940