Timeline of Events Quarter 1

By Kmaroox
  • Hull House

    This is when Jane Aadams creates the Hull Houses and gives the poor a place to go. (Kind of like a Rec. center)
  • How The Other Half Lives

    Published by Jacob Riis and showed how the poor lived in tennements.
  • Idaho becomes the 43rd state

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    This is an act used to split up companies that work together using trusts to create a monopoly.
  • Wounded Knee Massacre

    The last battle of the American-Indian War
  • Pullman Strike

    A strike lead by railroad workers against the private owners who treated them unfairly. This lead to more government control of railroads.
  • Plessy v.s. Ferguson

    This was when segregation took a firm hold in the US.
  • Period: to

    William McKinley Presidency

  • Republic of Hawaii Annexed

  • Spanish-American War

    A war between the US and Spain that was caused by Yellow Journalism.
  • De Lome Letter

    A letter from the Spanish government that criticized the United States government.
  • USS Maine sinks in Havana Harbor

    The main event leading to the Spanish American War
  • The American Anti-Imperialist League was formed

    League formed to try and keep the US from imperialism.
  • Open Door Policy

    This was when the US pretty much forced its way in to China trade.
  • Period: to

    Theodore Roosevelt Presidency

  • President McKinley was assasinated

    Roosevelt is V.P.
  • Roosevelt Corollary

    This event was Roosevelts modifications to the monroe doctrine that stated the US would respond to European influence in Latin America.
  • Panama Canal Zone became the US's

    Cut travel from East to West coast in half.
  • Niagra Falls Conference

    A conference held on the Canadian side of Niagra Falls and based on African American Civil Rights.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act

    An act passed to improve food quality and improve sanitation when it came to food handling.
  • The Jungle

    Published by Upton Sinclair, shows how bad the meat packing industry was.
  • Gentlemen's Agreement

    An agreement between the US and Japan that Japanese students will be able to attend school in Los Angeles.
  • Henry Ford Assembly Line

    This is when the whole prespective of industry is changed.
  • NAACP was founded

    Association formed to try and gain African American Rights.
  • Period: to

    William Taft Presidency

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Diplomacy used by Taft from an economic point of view in East Asia and Latin America.
  • Period: to

    Woodrow Wilson Presidency

  • 16th Amendment ratified

    With a bigger government the government needed to raise taxes to fund it.
  • 17th Amendment ratified

    Allowed the people to vote for senators through direct primaries.
  • Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand

    Major event contributing to the begining of WWI
  • Sedition Act

    This act stated that no one should do anything to put down the US during war time.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    A telegram intentionally for the US from Germany to try and provoke the US to join WWI.
  • US joins WWI

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The treaty blaiming Germany for WWI
  • 18th Amendment ratified

    The prohibition of alcohol
  • 19th Amendment ratified

    This allowed people to vote and not be discriminated against to prevent them from voting.