20th Century Presidential Outlines

  • Atlanta Compromise

    Atlanta Compromise

    asked whites allow negroes to learn vocational skills and earn living.
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  • Boxer Rebellion

    Boxer Rebellion

    US & Europe help each other rescue from Chinese anti imperialist
  • National Reclamation Act (Newlands)

    National Reclamation Act (Newlands)

    Fed $ dams & irrig, Canals in West. NOT conservation!
  • Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty

    Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty

    Gave US rts to built Panama Canal & canal zone
  • Hepburn Act

    Hepburn Act

    to regulate rr rates (teeth in 1887 interstate commerce comission
  • Panic of 1907

    Panic of 1907

    reveals money trust greater power over US banking & money supply than gov't
  • Payne-Aldrich Tariff

    Payne-Aldrich Tariff

    cut teriffs some not as much as progressives wanted; caused Teddy Roosevelt to break with Taft & seek election of 1912
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    blacks moving from south to industrial cities of North and Midwest; began during labor shortages of WWI
  • Underswood-Simmons Tariff

    Underswood-Simmons Tariff

    Lowers Tariffs
  • Federal Reserve System 1913

    Federal Reserve System 1913

    result of ivestigating of money trust/ panic 1907; most banks join by 1929. 12 regional banks; us gov't get control of money supply; interest rates
  • Selective Sevice Act

    Selective Sevice Act

    almost120,000 died; US agriculture boomed, war hysteria infringed on 1st A
  • Fourteen Points

    Fourteen Points

    plan for peace after WWI included self determinations & League of Nations
  • Influenza Epidemic

    Influenza Epidemic

    kills 600,000 in US in 10 months (1 in 200 americans dies!)
  • Treaty of Versilles

    Treaty of Versilles

    Treaty for WWI. However, US did not sign
  • Steel Strike

    Steel Strike

    Massice Violent strike led by Union leader Samuel Gompers
  • League of Nations

    League of Nations

    US senate led by Henry Cabot Lodge refused to join.
  • Madison Grant's passing of the Great Race

    Madison Grant's passing of the Great Race

    (1916) Nativist warns "mongrelization" by immigrants
  • Marcus Garvey

    Marcus Garvey

    Advocated pride in African Heritage (black pride) & back to Africa for full equality
  • Federal Trade Commision

    Federal Trade Commision

    1914: investigate crop violations antitrust laws
  • Hebert Croly The Promise of American Life

    Hebert Croly The Promise of American Life

    1914 very influential prog book; argued needed strong Hamilton Federalist style gov't to intervene to protect people from eco abuses