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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Prevention of price fixing and unfair marketing by big monopolies. Theodore Roosevelt used this to divide Northern Securities and William Taft, to split the American Tobacco Company. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Congress extends the Chinese Exclusion Act for an additional ten years, adding a requirement that all Chinese workers in the United States register or face deportation. Passed in 1892, the Chinese Exclusion Act was a climax to more than thirty years of progressive racism. Anti-Chinese sentiment had existed ever since the great migration from China during the gold rush, where white miners and prospectors imposed taxes and laws to inhibit the Chinese from success. Racial tensions increased. -
Cross of Gold
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech against the restrictive gold standard makes him the Presidential candidate of the Democratic and Populist parties, but his appeal to rural voters in the West and South does not carry him to the White House. -
Work for women
As a social worker, James Addams explained in a 1910 Ladie's Home journal article, women ha a special interest in the reform of American society. Addams argued that women in cities could not care for their families without government help. Progressive women did not all agree on how to reform society. Many focused on outlawing alchohol; others on reforming conditions in the workplace. Whatever their focus, many women agreed that they needed the right to vote. -
Black Thursday
Stock prices fell slowley. Some brokers began to call in loans, but other continued to lend even more. "Although in some cases speculation has gone too far...the markets generally are now in a healthy condition." When the stock market closed on Wednesday, October 23, the Dow Jones average had dropped 21 points in an hour. The next , Thursday, October 24, worried investors began to sell, and stock prices fell. Investors who had bought General Electric stock at $400 a share and sold it for $283. -
World War II
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.” The term has also been used for September 2, 1945, when Japan’s formal surrender took place aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay -
Franklin Roosevelt dies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was the thirty-second President of the United States. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945 and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms
