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Birth of John Muir
21 April 1838 – 24 December 1914 -
Afred T. Mahan
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Imigration of John Muir
In 1849, Muir's family emigrated to the United States, starting a farm near Portage Wisconsin, -
Birth of Woodrow Wilson
wodrow wilson is born -
Teddy is Born
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 -
Birth of Florene Kelley
September 12, 1859 -
John Muir attends College
At age 22, Muir enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Madison -
A thousand mile walk to the Gulf
In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. -
F. Kelley attends college
Kelley studied at Cornell University from 1876 to 1882, graduating with the class of 1882 -
Navy Power
His concept of "sea power" was based on the idea that countries with greater naval power will have greater worldwide impact -
Mahan and Fisher
Between 1890 and 1915, Mahan and British admiral John Fisher (1841–1920) faced the problem of how to dominate home waters and distant seas with naval forces not strong enough to do both. -
Hull House
From 1891 through 1899, Kelley lived at the Hull House settlement in Chicago, where in 1893, Governor Peter Altgeld made her the Chief Factory Inspector for the state of Illinois, a newly-created position and unheard-of for a woman. -
Sierra Club
On May 28, 1892, the first meeting of the Sierra Club -
Gifford Pinchot
n July 1896, Muir became associated with Gifford Pinchot, a national leader in the conservation movement. -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, effectively the result of American intervention in the ongoing Cuban War of Independence. American attacks on Spain's Pacific possessions led to involvement in the Philippine Revolution and ultimately to the Philippine–American War. -
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement, was an anti-foreign, proto-nationalist movement by the Righteous Harmony Society in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity. -
Lusitania
an ancient Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain. -
Teddy is President
26th President of the United States 1901–1909 -
National reclamation act
is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West. -
Theodore and Yosmite
In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt accompanied Muir on a visit to Yosemite -
Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone is a 553-square-mile former unorganized US territory located within the Republic of Panama, consisting of the Panama Canal and an area generally extending five miles on each side of the centerline, but excluding Panama City. -
Pure food and drug
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. -
Meat inspection
The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (FMIA) is a United States Congress Act that works to prevent adulterated or misbranded meat and meat products from being sold as food and to ensure that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions -
Great White Fleet
The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. -
Funds for Kids
In 1913, she studied the federal patterns of distribution of funds for education -
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930). He is the only person to have served in both of these offices -
Dollar Diplomacy
Dollar Diplomacy is the effort of the United States—particularly under President William Howard Taft—to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. -
Federal reserve
An Act To provide for the establishment of Federal reserve banks, to furnish an elastic currency, to afford means of rediscounting commercial paper, to establish a more effective supervision of banking in the United States, and for other purposes. -
Death of John Muir
John Muir died at California Hospital (now California Hospital Medical Center)[45] in Los Angeles on 24 December 1914 of pneumonia[46] at age 76, -
Alfred T. Mahan Dies
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WW1
1916, Wilson had full control of American entry into World War I, and his second term centered on World War I and the subsequent peace treaty negotiations in Paris. -
Funding for the War
On the home front in 1917, he began the United States' first draft since the American Civil War, borrowed billions of dollars in war funding through the newly established Federal Reserve Bank and Liberty Bonds, set up the War Industries Board, -
Teddy R. Dies
January 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt died. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution established prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. -
19th Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to vote based on sex. -
Woodrow Wilson Dies
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Henry Street
From 1899 through 1926 she lived at the Henry Street settlement house in New York City. From there she founded the National Consumers League, which was strongly anti-sweatshop. -
Armistice
An armistice is a situation in a war where the warring parties agree to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, since it might be just a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace. -
Death of Florence Kelley
February 17, 1932 (aged 72) -
League of Nations
The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.