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Sherman Anti-Trus Act
*a landmark federal statute on competition law passed by Congress in 1890.
*prohibits certain business activities that reduce competition in the marketplace.
*was the first Federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies. -
Boxer Rebellion
*1898 groups of peasants in northern China began to get together into a secret society known as I-ho ch'üan called the "Boxers" by Western press.
*They wanted to destroy the Ching dynasty. The Boxers were massacring Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians. -
treaty of paris
*signed on December 10, 1898
*at the end of the Spanish-American War, and came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the ratifications were exchanged. -
mediates coal stike
*strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania.
*miners asked for higher wages and shorter workdays.
*Theodore Roosevelt became involved and set up a fact-finding commission that suspended the strike.
* workers got less hours of work and more money werepay. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
*federal laws passed in 1882, 1892, and 1902 .
*to prevent Chinese immigration to the United States.
*In 1879, Congress passed an act severely restricting Chinese immigration -
hau bunau Varilla Treaty 1903
*signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama.
*it established the panama canal -
Hepburn Act
*it clarify and increase the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission over railroads and certain other types of carriers.
*It authorized the commission to determine and prescribe just and reasonable maximum rates, establish through routes, and prescribe and enforce uniform systems of accounts.
*strengthened the Elkins Act of 1903, dealing with personal discrimination -
Panic of 1907
*also known as the 1907 Bankers Panic
*a financial problem that occured in the united states.
*J,P Morgan helped the banks with his own money and convice other bankers from new york. -
Underwood Simmons Tariff 1913
*reimposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff.
*signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on October 3, 1913.
* was sponsored by Alabama Representative Oscar Underwood. -
Federal Reserve System 1913
*the central banking system of the United States.
*created on December 23, 1913 with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, largely in response to a series of financial panics, particularly a severe panic in 1907.
* the great depression lead to changes in the reserve. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
*enacted in the U,S. to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipiency.
*started with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
*first Federal law outlawing practices considered harmful to consumers.
*Passed during the Wilson administration. -
zimmerman note
*diplomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States.
* it was intercept by british intelligence.
*the US GOT ANGRY AND LED TO THE WAR ON GERMANY. -
FOURTEEN POINTS
*a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.
*address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
*Fourteen Points was accepted by France and Italy on November 1, 1918.
*Britain later signed off on all of the points except the freedom of the seas. -
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
*the European Allied Powers decided to impose particularly stringent treaty obligations upon the defeated Germany.
*All German overseas colonies became League of Nation Mandates. -
1898 Annexed Hawaii
*extended the US territory into the Pacific.
*It resulted from economic integration and the rise of the U.S. as a pacific power.
*During the 1830s Britain and France forced Hawaii to accept treaties giving them economic privileges.
*U.S. opposed annexation by any other nation. -
The Trust Buster
*Teddy Roosevelt
* believed Wall Street financiers and powerful trust titans to be acting foolishly. -
Marcus Garvey
*Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements..
*He founded the Black Star Line. -
Red Scare and Palmer Raids 1919-20
*American society and alleged spread in the American labor movement fueled the paranoia that defined the period.
*world war I.
*Palmer Raids were attempts by the United States Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists, from the United States.
*raids and arrests HAPPENED IN november 1919 to january 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. -
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
*an African-American educator, author, orator, and political leader.
*influential whites; the black business, educational and religious communities nationwide.
*jim crow -
17th amendment
*the US constitution
*senators were elected by state legislatures.
*electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures.
