Spanish American War to Women's Suffrage

Spanish American War to Women's Suffrage

Period: Feb 23, 1898 to Feb 23, 1921

Boxer Rebellion

Feb 23, 1899

The rebellion was a nationalist movement during 1898-1901, opposing Christianity and foreign imperialism. This event was taken place in China. The uprising soon fell after the Eight Nation Alliance brought 20,000 troops to China and put an end to the war. This event stopped on September 7th 1901 with the Boxer Protocol.

Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie

Mar 1, 1900

This book was based on the American Naturalism in the book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and later matured in his book Sister Carrie.

Coal Strike

Feb 27, 1902

This strike was made by the United Mine Workers of America in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. The workers were asking for higher wages, fewer hours, and recognition of their union. They threatened to shut down fuel supplies for the cities

National Reclamation Act (Newlands)

Feb 27, 1902

The National Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects in arid areas of 20 states in the west. Due to this funding of irrigation systems, the states are more populous now and more habitable.

Thomas Nast

Mar 1, 1902

Thomas Nast was a poilitcal cartoonist who showed his feelings through cartoons. He was the one who came up with the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, Santa Claus, and Uncle same.

Lincoln Steffen's Shame of the Cities

Mar 1, 1904

The book was initially six articles that were written based on corruption in America.

Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food & Drug

Feb 27, 1906

This act is a United States Federal Law that provided inspection of any meat products and forbade manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous medicines. Muckrackers, Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt were for this act.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Mar 1, 1906

Sinclair wrote this novel portraying as an immigrant and writes about the harsh life of one. Poverty and the absences of social programs. It also states how American industry in meat packing is corrupt and this book was a viewed as insight.

Promise of an American Life

Mar 1, 1909

The novel was written in 1909 and was probably one of the truest statements of the Progressive political movement.

Federal Reserve System 1913

Mar 1, 1913

The system is the central banking of the United States. The Federal Reserve System was created in response to the financial panics and the panic of 1907. It later evolved to a more responsible system and the Great Depression later would change the system even more.

Underwood Simmons Tariff 1913

Apr 1, 1913

This tariff was implemented to lower the tax from 40%- 25% made by Payne Aldrich Tariff of 1909.

Marcus Garvey

Mar 1, 1914

Garvey was a Jamaican publisher, orator, journelist, and entrepreneur. He was an advocate for Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. He founded the Black Star Line and the UNIA-ACL.

Jacob Riis

Mar 1, 1914

Riis was a Danish American social reformer, muckracking journalist and social documentary photgrapher. He used his talents to help the improvished New Yorkers of New York City.

Federal Trade Commission

Mar 1, 1914

FTC is an independent agency of the United States and its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of competitive business practices.

Intervention of Vera Cruz

Nov 1, 1914

The intervention of America in Vera Cruz was to stop Pancho who was the leader of the rebellion in Mexico.

United States Intervention of Mexico

Nov 1, 1914

The US had to interveine during the Mexican Revolution. 1914-1917.

The Birth of a Nation

Mar 1, 1915

This was a silent film that strongly portrayed black men as beasts and sex fiends while the white men were thought highly of. This was basically a film advocating the KKK.

The Passing of the Great Race

Mar 1, 1916

This was scientifically racist written by Madison Grant. However, this was ignored and never became a best seller.

Louis Brandeis

Mar 1, 1916

Brandeis was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1916-1939. He was nominated by Wilson and with that came a lot of challenges facing the nomination because people say Brandeis was a social crusader and because he was a Jew.

Steel Strike

Mar 1, 1919

The strike happened after WW1 in a failed attempt to unify the steel unions together.