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William McKinley (1897-1901)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williammckinley
Beat Dem William Jennings Bryan twice was boss Hannas man, assassinated by socialist
(Dingley Tariff) highest in the history to date, 57%
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Spanish American War
Causes yellow journalist hearts ans pulitzer blame spanish for maine exploinding the Lome letter.
America hatred of Spanish brutality in Cuba, US Cubans wishes
1898 treaty of Paris: US gets Philliphines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Cuba indep but US protectorate
Effects : need for Panama Canal modernize US military, Filipino Insurrection, Us overseas empire
1898 -
Treaty of paris 1898
US gets Phillipines Puerto Rico Guam and Cuba -
1898 Anexation of Hawaii
US planters overthrew Queen Lilliuokalani 1894 -
Open door policy 1899-1900
john hay trades with chinese spheres of influence -
Boxer rebellion
us and europe helped each other to prevent attacks from chinese imperialist -
Theodore Roosevelt 1901 to 1909
Republican progressive reform -
Chinese exclusion act
restricts japanese immigrants -
Chinese exclusion act
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Hay bunau varilla treaty
gave US routes to build Panama canal -
Booker T washington
Former slave who does not advocate political or social equality between whites and blacks -
Hepburn Act
to regulate rr rates -
Panama canal
US helps Panama becoem indep of columbia to create a US canal teaty -
Panic of 1907
reveals money trust greater power of aUS banking and money supply than government -
Gentelmens agrement
Restricted Japanese immigrants -
William howard Taft
republican TR vice president -
Ballinger pinchot contreversy
taft fired chief forrester pinchot for accusing interior sec and using US natural resources -
WEB DuBois
funds the NAACP -
Payne aldrich tariff
cut tariffs -
woodrow wilson
republican new freedom won election of 1912 -
16th amendment
progressive income tax -
17th amendment
direct election of senators -
federal reserve system
result of investigation of money trust panis 1907 -
Underwood simmons tariff
Lowers tariff -
clayton anti trust act 1914
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Federal trade comission
investigative corp violations antitrust laws -
Military interview in vera cruz mexico
US Government controls city after Mexico officials seized US sailors and refused to apologize -
Hebert cloy the promise of american life
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The lusitana sinking
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Birth of nation
1st full lenght silent movie glories KKK -
Military interventions into mexico
led by Gen Purshing to chase PanchoVilla troops to Mexico -
Madisons Grants pession of the great race
Nativist warns mongrelization by immigrants -
us in ww1
they entered war because germans did not listen to remove unrestricted submarines -
Influenza epidemic
Killed 600000 in US in 10 months 1 in 20 Americans -
Steel strike
Masive violent strike led by union leader Samuel Gompers -
Red scare and palmer raids
Palmer and Hoover arrested imning ans union agitators and abused civil liberties -
Treaty of versailles
US did not sign -
19th amendment womwn can vote
very influential book argued and opened peoples eyes to what the abuse and eco abuses they were going through -
Margaret Sanger
Founds american birth control league aka Planned parenthood
