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On February 15, the USS Maine exploded in the harbor of Havana killing more than 260 men. At the time noone knew exactly why the ship exploded but American newspapers claimed that the Spanish blew up the ship
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a treat ending the Spanish American War, in which Spain freed Cuba, turned over the islands of Guam and Puerto Rico to the US, and sold the Phillippines to the US for $20 million
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A novel published by Upton Sinclair that portrays the dangerous and unhealthy conditions prevalant in the meat-packing industry at the time
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a law that established strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created a federal meat inspection program
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The National Association for the Advancement of colored people which fought for equal rights for blacks and whites
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Ordered by President Wilson to take an expeditionary force of about 15,000 soldiers into Mexico to capture Francisco Villa dead or alive.
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Passed in May 1917, the act required men to register with the goverernment in order to be randomly selected for military service
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It was a speech given by Woodrow Wilson that was intended to assure the counrty that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe.
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The KKK rose throughout the 1920's. The Klan believed in keeping blacks "in their place." The Klan also ran Roman Catholics, Jews and foreign born people out of the country.
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The number of immigrants had grown almost 600 percent. Congress, in response to nativist pressure, decided to limit immigration from certain countries.
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Many strikes happened due to the increase in unions and most employers didnt want them to join the union cause the union set higher wages and set strict workplace qualifications.
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Were arrested and charged with the murder and robbery of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree. They were found guilty sololy on the fact that they were anarchists
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This tariff law raised the average American tariff rate to 38.5% and it was signed by Warren Harding.
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A scandal about Albert Fall selling oil rich lands set aside for the navy to oil companies and keeping all of the money to himself
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A civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party and the Communist Party of China
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A region plagued with dust storms and evictions. Thousands of sharecroppers and farmers left their land behind and followed Route 66 to California
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Signed on September 30,1938 which turned over to Sudentenland without a single shot being fired.
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A book written by John Steinbeck in 1939 that deals with a family of Oklahomans who leave the Dust Bowl for California
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The systematic murder of 11 million people across Europe more than half of whom were Jews
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It permitted the president of the U.S. to sell, exchange, lease, lend, or dispose of any government whose defense to the president seems vital to the defense.
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The purpose of the board was to regulate the production and allocation of materials during WWII in the US.
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A major battle of World War I between Nazi Germany and its allies fought Soviet Union. This was thought to be a main turning point in WWI
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The day the Allies launched an invasion on European mainland during WWII
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As WWII soldiers returned home and settled into family life, they contributed to an unprededented population explosion. At one point in 1957 an infant was born every 7 seconds. Thats 4,308,000 that year.
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A military conflict between North and South Korea. North wants Communism, South doesnt.
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The attacks on suspected Communists in the early 1950's.
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A book written by Betty Friedan. It captured the very discontent that many women were feeling at the time.
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Ended all quotas based on nationality. It also opened the door to many non-European immigrants to settle in the US.
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Fought police brutality in the ghettos
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She was a Hawiian monarch that stepped down from power in 1983 to the superior force of the US,
