spanish american war to women suffrage

theodore drieser

Feb 26, 1900

*an american tragedy
*maggie, a girl of the streets
*american novelist and journalist
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boxer rebellion

Jun 18, 1900

*chinese rebellious group wanted to destroy emperor that was ruling for over 250 years
*boxers did uprisings and attacks
*US France Britain Italy Russia and Japan sent an international force of 2,100 soldiers to help

chinese exclusion act

Feb 28, 1902

*a ten year policy
*immigration to america

hay bunau varilla treaty 1903

Nov 18, 1903

*treaty signed between panama and US
*panama canal to be constructed

pure food and drug act

Jun 30, 1906

*federal inspection of meat products
*protect public from adultaration of food

payne aldrich tarrif

Feb 27, 1909

*cut tarrif some not as much as progressives wanted
*made teddy break with taft and seek election 1912

ballinger pinchot controversy 1909

Jul 23, 1909

*taft fired chief forrester pinchot for accusing interior secballinger of benefiting business interests at expense of US natural resources

underwood simmons tarrif 1913

Apr 27, 1913

*lower tarrif
*woodrow wilson summoned a special seccion to congress
*levying an income tax

federal reserve system 1913

Dec 23, 1913

*result of investigqation of money trust/ panic 1907
*most banks joined by 1929
*us gov gets control of money supply, interest ratees

jacob riis

May 26, 1914

*photographed slums
*his books showed deplorable urban conditions
*danish american social reformer
*how the other half lives

clayton anti trust act 1914

Oct 15, 1914

*outlawed many practices used to build monopolies
*exempted unions from sherman anti trust act

booker t washington

Apr 16, 1915

*former slave who does not advocate political or social equality of negroes and whites
*1905 atlanta compromise asked whites to allow negroes to learn vocational skills and earn living

lusitania

May 7, 1915

*one of the main reasons that the US got involved in ww1
*sunk by u-boat
*germany 'restricted' its subs

louis brandeis

Feb 28, 1916

*first jewish supreme court of justice,
*wants to break up trust

zimerman note

Jan 16, 1917

*zimmerman telegraph from washington to mexico
*propaganda posters
*germany promised us lands to mexico if they partnered against us

marcus garvey

Feb 28, 1918

*advocated pride in african heritage and back to africa for full equality
*loyal leader of the black nationalism

influenza epidemic 1918

Mar 29, 1918

*killed 600,000 in US in 10 months
*1 in 200 americans died

league of natons

Jan 10, 1920

*US senate led by henry cabot lodge refused to join
*fear of loosing sovereignty
*wilson took fight to join the league directly to the US people
*had a stroke and his wife ran things until the end of his term

18th amendment

Jan 17, 1920

*prohibition of alcohol
*bans manufacturing, selling and distribution of alcohol

salvation army

Jan 1, 1921

*religious reformers
*william booth founded the salvation army
*he was a methodist minister