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Atlanta Compromise
asked whites allow negroes to learn vocational skills and earn living. -
Period: to
20th century
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Boxer Rebellion
US & Europe help each other rescue from Chinese anti imperialist -
National Reclamation Act (Newlands)
Fed $ dams & irrig, Canals in West. NOT conservation! -
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
Gave US rts to built Panama Canal & canal zone -
Hepburn Act
to regulate rr rates (teeth in 1887 interstate commerce comission -
Panic of 1907
reveals money trust greater power over US banking & money supply than gov't -
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
blacks moving from south to industrial cities of North and Midwest; began during labor shortages of WWI -
Underswood-Simmons Tariff
Lowers Tariffs -
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
almost120,000 died; US agriculture boomed, war hysteria infringed on 1st A -
Fourteen Points
plan for peace after WWI included self determinations & League of Nations -
Influenza Epidemic
kills 600,000 in US in 10 months (1 in 200 americans dies!) -
Treaty of Versilles
Treaty for WWI. However, US did not sign -
Steel Strike
Massice Violent strike led by Union leader Samuel Gompers -
League of Nations
US senate led by Henry Cabot Lodge refused to join. -
Madison Grant's passing of the Great Race
(1916) Nativist warns "mongrelization" by immigrants -
Marcus Garvey
Advocated pride in African Heritage (black pride) & back to Africa for full equality -
Federal Trade Commision
1914: investigate crop violations antitrust laws -
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
