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Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. It was named for Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was a chairman of the Senate finance committee and the Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. Several states had passed similar laws, but they were limited to intrastate businesses. The Sherman Antitrust Act was based on the constitutional power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. -
Susan B Anthony The State of Women (1897)
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. She was eventually led to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Fought heavily for womens suffrage in the late 1890's -
Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward a strong foreign policy. Roosevelt steered the U.S. actively into world politics.He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world. -
United States World War 1 Involvement (1917)
Up until just before the U.S. declared war on April 6th, 1917, the U.S. had desperately tried to stay neutral, but ties to Britain, propaganda, the sinking of ships by German U-boats, and a German attempt in the Zimmermann Note to get Mexico to declare war on the U.S. pushed the U.S. to getting involved. It's important to understand how the U.S. got the troops and funds for the war, the impact at home, and American involvement in combat and bringing the war to an end, whcih took place 1917-1918. -
Women Join the Workforce (1920)
After the Draft in World War One, women stayed home and joined the workforce, By 1920 women made up 23.6% of the work force. When the war ended even more jobs became available for women and they stayed within the work force. This resulted in the movement of women from typical female jobs like nursing and teaching, into other jobs in the factory scene. Women increasingly became part of the work force. This changed their traditional home lives as they ventured into the world outside the home. -
The Immigration Act of 1924
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota. The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census. It completely excluded immigrants from Asia. This affected cultural diversity in the U.S. as well as how people related to one another socially. -
The US joins WWII (1941)
Officially, the United States entered World War 2 in 1941 responding to a sneak Japanese aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. However, the United States involvement in that war, and its causes, albeit mostly as a non-belligerent, can be found 30 odd years before at the close of World War 1. United States international policy was dictated by domestic politics that swerved between activism, isolationism, delicate neutrality and ultimately as a combatant. -
Japanese Internment Camps (1942)
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who had lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens.This goes down as one of the most emotionally devasting historical events in United States History. -
The Marshall Plan (1948)
The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The plan was in operation for four years beginning April 8th 1948. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous again, and prevent the spread of communism. -
The Berlin Airlift (1948)
Truman wanted peace, not WW3. This is why he began the
Berlin Airlift. On June 26, 1948, the first planes took off from bases in England and western Germany and landed in West Berlin. It was a daunting logistical task to provide food, clothing, water, medicine, and other necessities of life for the over 2 million fearful citizens of the city. For nearly a year, American planes landed around the clock. Over 200,000 planes carried in more than one-and-a-half million tons of supplies. -
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. Led by a young Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the boycott lasted more than a year—during which Parks not coincidentally lost her job Over the next half-century, Parks became a nationally recognized symbol of dignity and strength in the struggle to end entrenched racial segregation. -
Civil Rights Act (1954-Now)
The civil rights movement chronicles important dates during the early 1960s. While the fight for racial equality began in the 1950s, the non-violent techniques the movement embraced began to pay off during the following decade. Civil rights activists and students across the South challenged segregation, and the relatively new technology of television allowed Americans to witness the often brutal response to these protests. The movement was revolutionized through courageous brave leaders. -
Reaganomics (1981-1989)
Reaganomics: Reagan’s mix of across-the-board tax cuts, deregulation, and domestic spending restraint helped fuel an economic boom that lasted two decades. Reagan inherited a misery index (the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates) of 19.99%, and when he left office it had dropped to 9.72%. President Obama take note: Under Reaganomics, 16 million new jobs were created. This shows the importance of Reagans presidency and impact on the United States of America -
Worldwide War on Terror (2001)
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration declared a worldwide "war on terror," involving open/covert military operations, new security legislation, efforts to block the financing of terrorism, and more. Washington called on other states to join in the fight against terrorism asserting that "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." Many governments joined this campaign, often adopting harsh new laws, and stepping up intelligence work.
