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The Monroe Doctrine warns European nations that the United States would not tolerate further colonization or puppet monarchs. -
It's an American consumer organization that was founded in 1899. It's a private, non-profit advocacy group representing consumers on marketplace and workplace issues -
McKinley becomes the third president to get assassinated, and Roosevelt takes over his job 8 days later. -
Miners were on strike asking for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
The US buys the Panama Route. Americans knew they needed this to move ships from east to west quickly. If they did that, they would control power because they would control the oceans. The Canal was a geopolitical strategy to make the United States the most powerful nation on earth. -
The Treaty ultimately gave Japan control of Korea and much of South Manchuria, including Port Arthur and the railway that connected it with the rest of the region, along with the southern half of Sakhalin Island; Russian power was curtailed in the region, but it was not required to pay Japan's war costs. -
Gentlemen's agreements are informal, unwritten agreements between two parties to undertake a transaction or other commitment. -
The Model T was introduced to the world in 1908. Henry Ford wanted the Model T to be affordable, simple to operate, and durable. The vehicle was one of the first mass production vehicles, allowing Ford to achieve his aim of manufacturing the universal car. -
It lowered tariffs on imported goods and established a graduated income tax. -
This act created the Federal Reserve Board to oversee banks and manage reserve funds. -
It strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act by spelling out specific activities businesses could not to. -
It established the Federal Trade Commission to monitor business practices, fake advertising, and dishonest labeling. -
On 28 July, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. It was determined to take decisive action against Serbia and, by now, knew this risked war with Russia, Serbia's supporter. Austria-Hungary was prepared to risk war because it had the guarantee of German support. The Balkan crisis now threatened a European-wide war. -
On May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans. -
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. With Germany's aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence. -
The U.S. Government broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, refusing to recognize the Soviet Government -
On Nov. 11, 1918, after more than four years of horrific fighting and the loss of millions of lives, the guns on the Western Front fell silent. Although fighting continued elsewhere, the armistice between Germany and the Allies was the first step to ending World War I. -
Also known as the Volstead Act, it banned the manufacture, sale and transport of alcoholic beverages. -
The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States. -
An Act to limit the immigration of migrants into the United States. The Emergency Quota Act restricted the number of immigrants admitted from any country annually to 3% of the number of residents from that country living in the United States as of the 1910 Census. -
The Washington Naval Treaty led to an effective end to building new battleship fleets, and the few ships that were built were limited in size and armament. Many existing capital ships were scrapped or sunk. Some ships under construction were turned into aircraft carriers instead. -
Rosewood was a predominantly Black town in Florida that was destroyed by a white mob following false accusations against a Black man. -
This act granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the US, but didn't grant them the right to vote yet. -
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. -
Germany's annual reparation payments would be reduced, increasing over time as its economy improved; the full amount to be paid, however, was left undetermined. -
Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison, but no one was convicted of paying the bribes. Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the "greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics". -
The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had made illegal. -
The Revenues Act reduced inheritance and personal income taxes, cancelled many excise imposts, eliminated the gift tax and ended public access to federal income tax returns. -
Sacco and Vanzetti were most likely convicted for being Italian immigrants and anarchists. They were then sent to the electrocution chair, which shows an increase of nativist attitude from the US. -
It was a multilateral agreement attempting to eliminate war as an instrument of national policy. It was the most grandiose of a series of peacekeeping efforts after World War I.