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Standard Oil Trust; Andrew Carnegie - Steel -
Dawes Severalty Act-denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, opens lands to whites -
Sherman Antitrust Act-outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints -
Populist Party - formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government -
Grandfather Clause - voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes -
1898 - Spanish-American War – Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S. crushes Spain´s Navy Treaty of Paris - ends the Spanish-American War -
1899 - Open Door Policy - U.S. attempt to gain foothold in Chinese markets -
1901 – President McKinley assassinated, Teddy Roosevelt now 26th President -
1906 - Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection – set food quality standards -
Panama Canal – connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (opens in 1914) -
Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced -
16th Amendment - establishment of income tax, 17th Amend.- direct election of senators -
After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe. -
-Zimmerman Telegram - intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against the U.S.; US. Enters WWI.- Selective Service Act - establishes the draft
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1919 - 18th Amendment-outlaws purchase, sale, and transport. Treaty of Versailles – ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it. -
1920 - 19th Amendment - women's suffrage (right to vote) -
1924 - Dawes Plan - ease war reparations on Germany