Timeline 2 US Histroy

  • Purchase of Alaska (Domestic)

  • U.S trade abroad increases (Foreign)

  • Chinese Exclusion Act (Foreign)

    Chinese Exclusion Act (Foreign)
  • Plessy Vs. Ferguson/ Era of Jim Crow legalized segregation- 1954 (Foreign)

  • Age of U.S Imperialism begins Spanish- American War, territory gained Hawaii is annexed (Foreign)

  • Open Door Policy (Domestic)

    Open Door Policy (Domestic)
  • T. Roosevelt “Big Stick” Diplomacy (Foreign)

  • McKinley is assasinated- T.R becomes president (Domestic)

    McKinley is assasinated- T.R becomes president (Domestic)
  • Teddy Roosevelt elected. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is established. Us begins building the Panama Canal, with a 99 year lease (Domestic)

    Teddy Roosevelt elected. Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is established. Us begins building the Panama Canal, with a 99 year lease (Domestic)
  • T. Roosevelt’s SQUARE DEAL. Meat inspection act (Domestic)

    T. Roosevelt’s SQUARE DEAL. Meat inspection act (Domestic)
  • Gentlemen’s agreement (Foreign)

  • William Howard Taft is elected president (Domestic)

    William Howard Taft is elected president (Domestic)
  • 16th and 17th Amendments added to Constitution Federal Reserve Act (Domestic)

  • Clayton AntiTrust Act l- strengthens the Sherman Anti Trust Act. World War 1 Erupts (Foreign)

  • Germans Sinking Lusitania, American Passengers die (Foreign)

    Germans Sinking Lusitania, American Passengers die (Foreign)
  • National Park Service created U.S interventions in Mexico (Foreign)

  • Zimmerman Note. US enters World War 1, 4.8 million Americans served (Foreign)

  • World War 1 ends, Woodrow Wilson writes the Fourteen Points. 51,000 American Casualties. Flue Pandemic- 500 million people affected worldwide (Foreign)

    World War 1 ends, Woodrow Wilson writes the Fourteen Points. 51,000 American Casualties. Flue Pandemic- 500 million people affected worldwide (Foreign)
  • 18 Amendment: Prohibition. U.S senate rejects the Treaty Of Versailles. League of Nations formed, USA does not join (Foreign)

  • Great Migration Of African Americans to the North (Foreign)

  • 19 Amenment: Women’s Suffrage (Domestic)

  • Harlem Renaissance (Domestic)

    Harlem Renaissance (Domestic)
  • Return To normalcy. U.S becomes isolationist, rise of Nativism (Domestic)

  • Emergency Quota Act- drastically reduced number of immigrants (Foreign)