Period 7 and Eight timeline By namemaybedeletable 1874 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1879 Washington founded the Tuskegee Institute 1887 Jane Addam established the Hull House 1888 National American Woman Suffrage Association 1890 Depression of the 1890s 1892 The Platt Amendment 1893 The start of the Cuban War for Independence 1896 Anti-Imperialist League 1898 The Spanish American War 1898 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published Women and Economics Period: 1898 to 1901 The united States acquired Guam, hawaii, the philippines, and puerto Rico Apr 11, 1898 The Teller Amendment Declared that Cuba ought to be free and independent 1899 President McKinley was assassinated 1899 Hay-Pauncefote Treaty 1901 Roosevelt established the Department of Commerce and Labor 1903 Russian invasion of Manchuria 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1909 U.S. intervention in Nicaragua 1910 U.S. exports had increased to 1.7 billion dollars 1911 Clayton Antitrust Act 1911 The Mexican Revolution 1913 Sixteenth Amendment 1914 The Panama Canal opened 1914 The start of WWI 1914 The Universal negro Improvement Association 1916 The National Association of Colored Women grows to 50,000 members 1917 The Eighteenth Amendment is Ratified 1917 Espionage Act 1917 The Nineteenth Amendment is passed 1917 Selective Service act 1917 Russian Revolution 1917 Treeaty of Versailles 1917 War Industries Board 1918 Sedition Act 1918 Start of the Influenza Pandemic 1918 Harlem Renaissance 1918 Teapot Done Scandal 1919 Schenck v United States 1920 Sacco And Vanetti Case 1920 Kellogg Briand Pact 1921 Sheppard Towner Act 1924 National Origins Act 1924 Indian Citizenship Act 1929 Great Depression 1929 1929 Economic Crash Nov 29, 1929 Blact Tuesday Nov 29, 1929 Blact Tuesday 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1932 Scottsboro Nine 1933 Glass-Steagall Act 1933 Twenty first Amendment 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act 1935 The Social Security Act 1935 The Works Progress Administration 1935 National Labor Relations Act 1938 Fair labor Standards Act 1938 Congress establishes the House UnAmerican Activities Committee 1940 The Smith Act 1944 The Servicemen's readjustment Act 1945 The Yalta Conference 1945 The start of the Cold War 1945 The Potsdam Conference 1946 The Marshall plan 1947 The Federal Employee Loyalty program Period: 1948 to 1955 The Korean War 1957 Yates v United States 1960 Young Ameircans for Freedom 1960 The Student Nonviolent coordinating Committee 1970 M*A*S*H 1970 The development of the New Right 1971 Twenty-Sixth Amendment 1971 Nixon establishes the Environmental Protection Agency 1972 Nixon visits Moscow 1972 The creation of OSHA 1973 The Endangered Species Act of 1973 1973 OPEC imposed an oil embargo with the United States 1973 Nixon Watergate Burglars 1973 Yom Kippur War 1978 The National Energy Act