Technology Project #2 1900-1920

  • Carrie Nation tears up bar

    She broke bottles and barrels and eventually was arrested and fined 3k in damages.
  • McKinley is Assassinated

    President is Assassinated by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz.
  • Islander intervention pt1

    Roosevelt exhibits military force over Cuba after it declared independence.
  • Government excludes anarchists and socialists form immigrating

    The government passes a series of restrictions that exclude socialist and anarchist from entering.
  • Roosevelt begins naval construction

    Roosevelt spearheaded the constructions of 11 new battleships.
  • Islander intervention pt2

    Roosevelt says that the US holds police power in the Caribbean.
  • corporate consolidation

    over 4,000 companies became 257 in a period of a few years.
  • NSC ordered to disband

    They were court ordered to disband into 6 different companies.
  • "Financial Supervision"

    Roosevelt sends marines to the Dominican Republic to establish financial supervision over the existing government
  • Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

    The book is about a Lithuanian family that moved to Chicago to work in the stockyards.
  • PFD act

    This was passed after The Jungle brought light on the slaughterhouse situation in the US.
  • Roosevelt signs Hepburn Act

    This allows the ICC to set railroad rates.
  • Japanese laborers denied entry

    Japan suspended all working class emigrants form getting passports.
  • Jane Addams writes Newer Ideals of Peace

    this was the foundation of pacifism.
  • Period: to

    The Great White Fleet

    A Fleet of 16 all white American ships traveled around the globe to show Americas' naval might.
  • Japanese workers are unintegratable

    In a 42 volume report the US immigration Commission highlighted the impossibility of Japanese from being assimilated
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory burns

    The factory burned and the managers who had the keys to the doors left and let over 200 women burn inside.
  • six western state passed suffrage amendments

  • Anti-Saloon league releases yearbook

    IT contained charts an graphs comparing alcohol usage to divorce.
  • Jane Addams gives first nominating speech

    She was the first woman to give a nomination speech.
  • US holds lead position for economy in the world

  • Serbia declares war on Austria

    for failure to meet demands of Russia.
  • Serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Austrian-Hungarian heirs to the throne

    this was part of the campaign to eliminate the Serbian threat.
  • Lusitania sinks

    A German U-boat and the Lusitania and killed some Americans on board.
  • National defense act signed

    this allowed for the reserves to be created.
  • Trade with allies triples

    the US basically cut all ties with the central powers throughout the duration of the war.
  • NWP members arrested

    Over 150 women were arrested picketing the white house.
  • US enters war

    the US got in on the action of the great war mostly because of Germany forcing our hand.
  • congress approves SSA

  • First group of women join marines

  • Wilson backs women suffrage

    Two years later he got his wish the 19th amendment was ratified.
  • Pandemic of 1918

    the flu was so bad that more people died than in the actual war.
  • Bolsheviks sign peace treaty

  • German troops withdraw form Belgium

  • Immigration reaches 25 million immigrants