Timeline II U.S. history

By livpaolicelli

  • Purchase of Alaska

    Domestic

  • U.S. Trade Abroad Increases

    Foreign

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Foreign

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Domestic

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

    Domestic

  • Open Door Policy

    Domestic

  • T.Roosevelt "Big Stick" Diplomacy

    Domestic
  • McKinley is assassinated- T.R. becomes president

    McKinley is assassinated- T.R. becomes president

    Domestic

  • T. Roosevelt's SQAURE DEAL

    Domestic

  • Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is established

    Domestic

  • U.S. begins building the Panama Canal, with a 99 year lease

    Domestic
  • Teddy Roosevelt elected

    Teddy Roosevelt elected

    Domestic
  • Meat Inspection Act

    Meat Inspection Act

    Domestic

  • Gentlemen's Agreement

    Domestic
  • William Howard Taft is elected President

    William Howard Taft is elected President

    Domestic

  • Great Migration of African Americans to the North 1910-1930

    Foreign
  • 16th Amendment added to Constitution

    16th Amendment added to Constitution

    Domestic

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Domestic
  • 17th Amendment added to the Constitution

    17th Amendment added to the Constitution

    Domestic

  • Clayton Anti Trust Act- strengthens the Sherman Anti trust Act

    Domestic

  • World War I erupts

    Dometic

  • Germans sinking the Lusitania, American passengers die

    Forgein

  • National Park Service created

    Domestic

  • U.S. intervention in Mexico

    Domestic

  • Zimmerman Note

    Domestic

  • U.S enters World War I, 4.8 million Americans served

    Domestic

  • Selective Service Act

    Domestic

  • World War I ends; Woodrow Wilson writes The Fourteen Points 51,000 American casualties

    Domestic

  • Flu Pandemic- 500 million people infected worldwide

    Domestic

  • "Return to Normalcy"

    Domestic

  • U.S. becomes isolationist, Rise of nativism 1918-1921

    Domestic
  • 18th Amendment: Prohibition

    18th Amendment: Prohibition

    Domestic

  • U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles

    Domestic

  • League of Nations formed, U.S.A does NOT join

    Foreign
  • 19th Amendment: Women's Sufferage

    19th Amendment: Women's Sufferage

    Domestic

  • Emergency Quota Act- drastically reduced number of immigrants to U.S.

    Domestic

  • Era of Jim Crow legalized segregation

    Domestic