Timeline II By NCF11 1867 Purchase of Alaska Purchase of Alaska Period: 1870 to 1950 RED IS DOMESTIC BLUE IS FOREIGN 1880 U.S. Trade abroad increases 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1896 Plessy V. Ferguson Plessy V. Ferguson Period: 1896 to 1954 Era of Jim Crow legalized segregation 1899 Open Door Policy 1900 T. Roosevelt "Big Stick" Diplomacy 1901 McKinley is assassinated - T.R. becomes president 1904 Teddy Roosevelt Elected/ Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is established/ US begins building the Panama Canal, with a 99 year lease 1906 T. Roosevelt's SQUARE DEAL/ Meat Inspection Act 1906 Gentlemen's Agreeman 1908 William Howard Taft is elected President Period: 1910 to 1930 Great Migration of African Americans to the North 1913 16th and 17th Amendments added to Constitution Federal Reserve Act 1914 Clayton AntiTrust Act - strengthens the Sherman Antitrust Act / World War I Errupts 1915 Germans sinking the Lusitania, American passengers die 1916 National Park Service created / U.S. intervention in Mexico 1917 (Foreign) Zimmerman Note / U.S, enters World War I, 4.8 million Americans served Selective Service Ac 1918 World War I ends; Woodrow Wilson write The Fourteen Points / 51,000 American Casualties / Flu Pandemic - 500 million people infected worldwide Period: 1918 to 1921 "Return to Normalcy" / U.S. becomes isolationist, Rise of nativism 1919 (Domestic) 18th Amendment: Prohibition / U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles / League of Nations formed, USA does not join 1920 19th Amendment: Woman's Suffrage 1920 Harlem Renaissance 1921 Emergency Quota Act - drastically reduced number of immigrants to U.S.
