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Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act is a United States antitrust law that outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, and other trade restraints. This law prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It is also named for Senator John Sherman, who was its principal author. -
Populist Party
The Populist Party was an American left-wing agrarian populist political party formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government. It was also known as the People's Party, or simply the Populists. -
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism is an American term for journalism and associated newspapers that do not present or present little legitimate, well-researched news. Instead, they use headlines that catches eyes of readers for increased sales. It features unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists. -
Grandfather Clause
A grandfather clause is a provision where a rule continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule applies to all future cases. This term arose from the fact that the laws tied the then-current generation's voting rights to those of their grandfathers, back around the time of the American Civil War. Grandfather clauses were later declared unconstitutional. -
Spanish-American War
The Spanish-American War was a war between Spain and the United States. Hostilities started after the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba. This lead to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. Teddy Roosevelt lead the Rough Riders during this war, and the U.S. crushed Spain's Navy. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was a treaty signed by the United States and Spain that ended the Spanish-American War. Spain also relinquished all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. Spain also ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. -
Open Door Policy
The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs used to refer to the policy made that would allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries equally. -
Assassination of President McKinley
President William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States. He served from 1897 until his assassination in 1907. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in his abdomen, and he died of gangrene caused by his wounds. Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him and became the 26th president of the United States. -
Muckraker
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt in the Progressive Era in the United States. They had large audiences in popular magazines. -
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Pacific Ocean with the Atlantic Ocean. It is a conduit for maritime trade. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama. Its construction started in 1881, but the United States took over the project in 1904. The Panama Canal was finished in 1914. President Roosevelt visited the construction of the Panama Canal in 1906. -
Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act was a consumer protection law that was enacted by Congress and led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration. The Meat Inspection Act was another consumer protection law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food. It also ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under strictly regulated sanitary conditions. These acts set food quality standards in the United States. -
Henry Ford Introduces the Model T Car, Assembly Lines Introduced
Henry Ford was an American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company and was chief developer of the assembly line technique. The assembly line led to mass production. Henry Ford introduced the Model T car in 1908. -
16th Amendment, 17th Amendment
The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution created the direct election of United States senators in each state. Senators used to be elected by state legislatures. -
World War I Begins In Europe
The first World War was a global war originating from Europe that lasted over 4 years. -
Selective Service Act
The Selective Service Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I, establishing a draft. -
18th Amendment
The 18th Amendment of the United States Constitution created the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. This means it is illegal to purchase, sale, and transport alcohol. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty of Versailles was the most important peace treaty that brought World War I to an end. It called for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of the League of Nations. However, the United States Senate rejects this. -
19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution halts the United States, and the states within it, from denying the right to vote to American citizens on the basis of sex. Women's suffrage fought for this, and this amendment recognizes a women's right to vote. -
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome scandal was involved with big oil companies, national security, and corruption and bribery at the highest levels of the United States government. This scandal involved the administration of American President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. -
Dawes Plan
The Dawes Plan was a plan made in 1924 the solved the issue of World War I reparations that Germany had to pay. It also ended a crisis in European diplomacy after World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
The Scopes Monkey Trial was an American legal case involving John Thomas Scopes, who was accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law. The trial is also known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. -
Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrant anarchists who were convicted of and found guilty of first-degree murder of a guard and paymaster during an armed robbery. They were later executed on August 23, 1927. The conviction and execution of these men is controversial, because they were anarchists, politically motivated, and unjustified.
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Stock Market Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929 was a major American stock market crash that occurred when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. This launched the Great Depression. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is often referred to by his initials FDR. -
Wagner Act
The Wagner Act of 1935 guarantees the rights of workers to organize and outlines the legal framework for labor unions and management relations. This act is also known as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. This act supports union rights and protects collective bargaining. -
Social Security Act
The Social Security Act is the law that created the Social Security Program, as well as insurance against unemployment. It establishes funds for the unemployed and elderly. -
Propaganda
Propaganda is communication used to influence an audience and further an agenda. Propaganda is also information that is usually of a biased or misleading nature. Propaganda was used in 1941 to motivate American citizens to support war efforts. -
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking that produced the first nuclear weapons. This was during World War II. The United States led this, and Canada and the United Kingdom supported it. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle between the United States and Japan during World War II, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The United States defeated Japan, and this became the turning point in the war in the Pacific. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was a political boundary that divided Europe in two from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War. It describes division of Communist Eastern Europe from Western Europe. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy with the goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. The United States intended to fight communism by helping free nations resist it. -
Harry Truman Orders Desegregation of Military
United States President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. This executive order put an end to discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. This led to the end of segregation in the services during the Korean War. -
Korean War Begins
The Korean War was a war between South and North Korea. The United States aided South Korea against North Korea. The war unofficially ended in an armistice on July 27, 1953. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was an American virologist and medical researcher who created the first successful polio vaccine. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement. She is best known for her role in the Montgomery bus boycott. She refused to give her bus seat up to a white person, and she was arrested for it. This sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. -
Mỹ Lai Massacre
The Mỹ Lai Massacre was the mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese citizens by American troops in Son Tinh District, South Vietnam. This took place during the Vietnam War. The American troops killed 200 innocent men, women, and children. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, where the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without the government stopping it. This made it legal to have an abortion up to 3 months into pregnancy. -
United States withdraws from Vietnam; North Vietnam overtakes South Vietnam after departure
The Paris Peace Accords had all American forces withdrawn from Vietnam, officially ending direct American military involvement. Two years after this, South Vietnam was taken over by North Vietnam. -
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He became a very influential voice of modern conservatism.