Unit 6 Timeline 22-26 By sarahelishevitz 1889 Hull-House, a settlement house, opens in Chicago 1894 Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed 1895 Cuban insurrection breaks out against Spanish rule 1898 U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor 1898 War of 1898 1898 United States annexes Hawaii 1899 U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris, ending the War of 1898 1899 Filipino insurgents resist U.S. domination 1900 Army Yellow Fever Commission confirms the cause of yellow fever 1900 International alliance quells the Boxer Rebellion 1902 Theodore Roosevelt attempts to arbitrate the coal strike 1902 Justice Department breaks up Northern Securities Company 1903 Panamanians revolt against Colombia 1903 Congress passes the Elkins Act 1903 Wright Brothers fly the first airplane 1903 Ford Motor Company is founded 1905 Russo-Japanese War 1905 First movie house opens 1906 Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is published 1906 Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act 1907 Great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a demonstration of America’s rise to world-power status 1908 Supreme Court issues Muller v. Oregon decision 1909 William Taft is inaugurated president 1910 Congress passes the Mann-Elkins Act 1910 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire 1913 Congress passes the Federal Reserve Act 1914 Panama Canal opens 1914 Congress passes the Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914 World War I begins in Europe 1914 The United States intervenes in Mexico 1915 British liner Lusitania, with Americans aboard, is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 1916 Louis Brandeis is nominated to fill a seat on the Supreme Court 1916 Congress passes the National Defense Act 1916 Marcus Garvey brings to New York the Universal Negro Improvement Association 1917 Zimmermann telegram reveals that Germany is attempting to incite Mexico to enter the war against the United States 1917 United States enters the Great War 1918 Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech Sep 11, 1918 Representatives of warring nations sign armistice 1919 Supreme Court issues Schenck v. United States decision 1919 Treaty of Versailles is presented to the Germans 1919 Race riots break out in Chicago 1919 U.S. attorney general launches Red Scare 1920 Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women’s suffrage, is ratified 1920 Prohibition begins 1920 F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise is published 1921 Joint resolution of Congress officially ends the war among the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary 1921 Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in physics 1921 Congress passes the Emergency Immigration Act 1921 Representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan attend the Washington Naval Conference 1922 T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is published 1922 First radio commercial is aired 1922 Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy 1922 United States begins sending observers to the League of Nations 1923 President Warren G. Harding dies in office 1924 Congress passes the Immigration Act 1925 Scopes “monkey trial” tests the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools 1927 Charles Lindbergh Jr. makes first solo transatlantic flight 1928 Herbert Hoover is elected president 1928 More than sixty nations sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact pledging not to go to war with one another, except in matters of self-defense Oct 29, 1929 Stock market crashes 1930 Congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1932 Congress sets up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1932 Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act 1932 Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act 1932 Congress sets up the Reconstruction Finance Corporation 1933 Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans 1933 Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans
