Key Terms Timeline Project

By amagana

  • Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson.

  • Nativism becgan to increase

  • Susan B. Anthony joined the American Anti-Slavery Society.

  • Theodore Roosevelt was born.

  • Homestead Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln

  • Eugene V. Deb elected Indiana State Assembly

  • Haymarket Riot took place, massacre from bombing aftermath

  • The Dawes Act

  • Clarence Darrow made an attempt to defend Eugene V. Debs but ended up being arrested.

  • Ida B. Wells started an anti-lynching campaign and led a protest.

  • First Muckraker strike

  • Andrew Carnegie sold the Carnegie Steel Company to John Pierpont Morgan for $480 million dollars.

  • Eugene V. Debs founded IWW

  • Upton Sinclair published "The Jungle"

  • Pure Food and Drug Act became effective, banning foreign, mislabeled food and drugs.

  • 16th Amendment ratified by Congress, which gave Congress power to collect taxes on all income.

  • 17th Amendment ratified by Congress, granting citizens the right to directly elect senators.

  • Federal Reserve Act was signed into action by President Woodrow Wilson, making changes to banks

  • William Jennings Bryan aided Congress in passing the 18th Amendment.

  • Theodore Roosevelt died.

  • 18th Amendment ratified by Congress, prohibiting import, export, and sale of all alcoholic beverages.

  • 19th Amendment ratified by Congress, granting women the right to vote.

  • Women's suffrage rights were granted by the 19th Amendment.

  • Jane Addams became the first woman to earn the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • The Libertarian Party was formed by David F. Nolan as a third party in politics.

  • California's Governor, Gray Davis was replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger by a recall.