US History Timeline

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  • 1882- John D. Rockerfeller- Standard Oil Trust: Andrew Carnegie- steel- president Chester A . Author

  • 1887- Dawes Severalty Act- denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, open lands to whites, President Grover Cleveland,

  • 1890- Wounded Knee - Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians

  • 1890- Sherman Antitrust Act- outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints

  • 1891- Populist Party- formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government

  • 1895- Yellow Journalism- journalism that features unethical or unprofessional pratices by new media organizations or individual journalist

  • 1896- Plessy vs Ferguson- 'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education)

  • 1898- Grandfather Clause- voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes president William McKinley

  • 1898- Spanish-American War- Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S crushes Spains Navy

  • 1898- 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 the 26th president

  • 1904- Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine- increses U.S. presence in Latin America , President Theodore Roosevelt

  • 1906- Muckraker- writes who expose big buisness corruption-

  • 1906- Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection- set food quality standards

  • 1906- Panama Canal, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean (opens 1914)

  • 1908- Henry Ford introduces the Model T car, assembly lines intoduced

  • 1913- 16th Amendment- establishement of income tax, 17th amend- direct election of senators, president Woodrow Wilson

  • 1914- World War I begins in Europe

  • 1915- German U- Boat sinks British passenger liner Lusitania, Amercians killed on board,

  • 1917- Germany continues unrestricted submarine warfare- gets warning from U.S.

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  • 1917- Zimmerman Telegram- intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance agaisnt U.S.: US enters WWI

  • 1917- Selective Service Act- establishes the draft

  • 1918- Fourteen Points- by Woodrow Wilson, 14th pt most important calls for League of Nations

  • 1919- Treaty of Versailles- ends WWI, calls for heavy reparations of Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations, U.S. Senate rejects it

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