20th Century outline

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    1898-1921

  • National (Newlands) Reclamation Act

    National (Newlands) Reclamation Act

    -funded irrigation projects for the arid lands in West America
    -not conservation
  • Mediates Coal Strike

    Mediates Coal Strike

    • United Mine Workers of America -higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union
  • Chinese Exclusion Act made permanent

    Chinese Exclusion Act made permanent

    -restricted Chinese immigration to the U.S.
  • Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty

    Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty

    -gave US rights to build Panama Canal & Canal Zone
  • Hepburn Act

    Hepburn Act

    -regulates RR rates
    -interstate commerce commission
  • (Teddy Roosevelt) Gentleman’s Agreement

    (Teddy Roosevelt) Gentleman’s Agreement

    -restricted Japanese immigration
  • Payne-Aldrich tariff

    Payne-Aldrich tariff

    -cut tarriffs some not as much as Progressives wanted
    -caused Teddy Roosevelt to break with Taft & seek election in 1912
  • Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy

    Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy

    -Taft fired Chief Forrester Pinchot for accusing Interior Sec Ballinger of benefiting business interests at expense of US natural resources
    -Alienated Progs & TR
  • W.E.B. DuBois

    W.E.B. DuBois

    -Advocates full social, pol, & eco equality of blacks with whites
    -co-founds NAACP (1909) with whites = Niagara Movement
    -Believed “Talented Tenth” would lead
    -opposed Booker T Washington’s conservative approach
    -1st Black to get Harvard PhD
    (1868-1963)
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    -Blacks moving from South to industrial cities of North & Midwest
    -began during labor shortages of WWI
    (1910-1970)
  • Trust Buster

    Trust Buster

    -Carried on Teddy Roosevelt anti-trust policies
    -agaisnt US Steel & break up Standard Oil Co.
  • Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    Underwood-Simmons Tariff

    -lowers tariffs
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    -direct election of senators
    -lessen party boss power
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    -progressive (on rich) income taxes
  • Military Intervention in Vera Cruz

    Military Intervention in Vera Cruz

    Mexico: April- Nov US military controls city after MEX officials seized US sailors & refused to give humiliating apology.

  • Booker T. Washington

    -former slave, does not advocate political, eco, or social equality of negroes and whites
    -in 1905 Atlanta Compromise asked whites to allow negroes to learn vocational skills & earn living
    -founder of Tuskegee Institute, AL., vocational training school
    (1856-1915)
  • (Madison Grant’s) Passing of the Great Race

    (Madison Grant’s) Passing of the Great Race

    -Nativists warns “mongrelization” by immigrants
  • Fourteen Points

    Fourteen Points

    -plan for peace after WW1 included self determinations & League of Nations

  • Steel Strike

    -Massive violent strike led by union leader Samuel Gompers
    -broken by national guards
    -20 deaths
    -contributed to red scare, as a communist helped lead strike
    -Years of Strikes!
  • Steel Strike

    Steel Strike

    -Massive violent strike led by union leader Samuel Gompers
    -broken by national guards
    -20 deaths
    -contributed to red scare, as a communist helped lead strike
    -Years of Strikes!
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    -advocated pride in African Heritage (black pride) & back to Africa for full equality
    (1887-1940)