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Progress to World power
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Illinois consitiution
Stated the Railroad is public and paaed law to establish mex rales and did not allow discrimination -
The Party Deadlock
Democrats and Republicans begin to switch roles
Democrats move towards state rights
Republicans move more towards Goverment's progressive power
Federal power decreases
State power increases -
State involvement
States begin regulating factories and rail roads -
Maun VS Ill
Declares that any private property must submit to the control of the public for public good -
interstate commerce Act
Led to the creation of the interstate commerce comission.
Ivestigates and oversees rail road acts -
Garfield
Garfield elected
Republican
Mostly asserted his power in his party -
National farmer's alliance established
Discussed problems about drought, morgages and low crop prices
Sponcered social and ecomic programs
Rejected Deomocratic and republic platforms -
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Expansion
America began to expand its power -
Assassination
Garfield assassinainted -
Cleveland
Cleveland elected
asserts Federal Goverment
Navy construction -
Republicans come to power
Republicans take control of white house -
Ben Harrison Elected
Republican
Fan of big buissness
Shrunk Corpret power
Increased tarrifs -
Sherman anti trust act
Act that broke down any cartels so corperations could not gain too much power -
Woman sufferage
National American Woman Suffrage Association formed -
US attempts so free cuba from Spain
Us uses propaganda to get people to fight Spain -
Us colnizes Philipeans
US tries to colonies Philipeans
Emilio Aguinaldo causes philipeanos to rebel -
Clevand Elected again
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Panic of 1893
Buisnesses fail
Banks closed
Rail Roads companies run out of buisness -
Mckinley elected
Mckinley apart of Republic party -
Hawaii
Hawaii anexed into America
Seen as stratigic naval location
Easy place to trade with Asia -
USS Maine goes boom
US Maine sunk in Havana Harbor
Spanish blamed for sinking
258 me died -
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Spanish American War
Spanish and US fight -
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Immegration
Chinese immegrants banned
Non English speakers were considered problems
Programs to Americanize immegrants
Literacy test admitted
Mexican Immegration icreases -
Open Door policy
America wants to be included in trading with China -
Rebellion stopped
Reblellion crushed
US replaces military with civil rule -
Mckinly assassinated
Mckinly killed Roosovelt takes place -
Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt elected -
Suit against Northern Securities Company
Teddy Roosevelt reputed trust buster
sued Norther Securities Company -
Strike
Minors Uninion Went on Strike
Nearly ruined Pennsylvania's economy -
Northern-Securities dissolved
Teddy won Northern-Securities Company dissolved -
Niagra movement
NACCP created by WED DuBois
DuBois pushed for equal rights to blacks
Booker Washington said blacks should start from the bottom and work there way up -
Meat inspection Act
The Jungle written by Upton Sinclair showed the poor condition shwed the horrid conditions of bucher factories
Enacted Meat inspection Act
Also Food and Drug act causong facotries to list ingrediants and banned certain drugs -
Model T comes out
Model T comes out
Make it easier for transportation -
Henry For inovation
Ford transforms auto industry -
Taft Elected
Very poor President
Concidered incomiteant and weak
But considered better trust buster than Roosevelt
Oh and extremely fat -
MannElkins act
MannElkins act strengthens ICC
ICC empowered to fix railroads
Progressive Republicans attacked Taft’s plan of a Commerce Court to hear ICC appeals
Progressives obstructed Taft’s negotiations -
Maneging Machines
Freddrick Taylor pushed for scientific managment of machines -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company
Shows risk of facotries
Renovation of facotires begin -
Temprance movement part 2
Woman creat temprance movement to stop men from getting to drunk
Stop wife beatings
18th admentmant
19 state prohibit alcohol -
Woodrew Wilson elected
Democrats take White house again -
17th admenment
17th admendment passed direct election of senetors -
War in Europe
World War one breaks out
Wilson pushes for neutrality -
Panema Canal opened
Panema Canal opened after 10 years of building with the help of Roosevelt
Helped with quicker trade and movement of naval fleets -
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World war 1
World war 1 -
This is how war starts
German U-boat sinks Lusitania an american civilan ship -
Highway
Government opens highways -
Child rights
Keating-Owen Act limited Child labor
declared unconsitutional
John
Dewy pushed for child education -
Trying to stay neutral
Wilson issued ultimatum: call off attacks on cargo and passenger ships or U.S.–German relations would be severed -
Trying to stay neutral
Sussex Pledge—Germany pledges to honor U.S. neutrality -
Dept
allied nations owed US 2 billion dollars -
Time to fight
German U-boats begin to fire on US ships again
Wilson orders Navy to fire on U-Boats
US declares war on Germany
US send 200,000 troops -
Belle Woods
US Marines Protected France from Germans
Pushed Germans back
Marines succesfully protected France
French gave Belle Woods to the Marines in their honor
Germans gave the Marines the nickname Teufel Hunden translated in english to be Devil Dogs -
woman sufferage
19th admenment passed
