1880-1914

American Imperialism

Period: 1800 to 1914

Gilded Age

Period: 1870 to 1900

President James Garfield

Period: 1880 to 1884

President Grover Cleveland

Period: 1884 to 1888

Founding of AFL

Oct 8, 1886

American Federation of Labor

President Benjamin Harrison

Period: 1888 to 1892

President Grover Cleveland

Period: 1892 to 1896

Homestead Strike

Period: Jun 30, 1892 to Jul 16, 1892

President William McKinley

Period: 1896 to 1904

Plessy v. Ferguson

May 18, 1896

Jim Crow Laws

Progressive Era

Period: 1897 to 1920

Spanish-American War

Period: Apr 21, 1898 to Dec 10, 1898

Annexation of Hawaii

Jul 12, 1898

Philippine American War

Period: Feb 4, 1899 to Jul 2, 1902

Construction of Panama Canal

Period: 1903 to 1914

President Theodore Roosevelt

Period: 1904 to 1908

Wall Street Crash of 1929

Period: 1907 to 1907

Crash of the New York Stock Exchange; the Great Crash

President William Taft

Period: 1908 to 1912

Founding of NAACP

Feb 12, 1909

President Woodrow Wilson

Period: 1912 to 1920

19th Ammendment

Aug 18, 1920