American History A

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  • Monroe Doctrine

    Following to the Monroe Doctrine, Taft would not allow foreign investors into Latin American markets.

  • Booker T. Washington born

  • Massachusetts restricts women and children workers to 10-hour workdays

  • Prohibiting cigar manufactiring

    New York attacks the sweatshops by prohibiting cigar manufacturing on premises occupied as a residence.

  • Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

  • Black journalist Ida B. Wells organizes a protest against lynching

  • Regulation of the food or drugs

    In the early 1900s, there is little regulation of the food or drugs that are available to the public, which goes on until 1905

  • Only about 25 percent of the huge timber preserves are still standing

  • Progressive movement

  • New York enacts a tenement house law

  • Theodore Roosevelt takes over the presidency after the assassination of William Mckinley

  • Lincoln Steffens writes articles for McClure's titled The Shame of the Cities

  • Anthracite coal strike in Pennsylvania

  • Railroads in the northwestern United States

    The Northern Securities Company, owned by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hll, controlls most of the railroads in the northwestern United States

  • Congress passes the Newlands Act

    Congress passes the Newlands act, which allows the Federal government to sell public lands in the desert western states and devote the proceeds to irrigation projects.

  • Congress creates the Department of Commerce and Labor (DOCL)

  • Congress passes the Elkins Act

    Congress passes the Elkins Act, which levies heavy fines on companies that engage in illegal rebating

  • National Child Labor Committee is organized

  • Theodore Roosevelt is elected president

  • Eugene V. Debs

    Eugene V. Debs, William Haywood, and Mary Harris Mother Jones organize the Industrial Workers of the World

  • Congress passes the Hepburn Act

    Which greatly strengthens the Interstate Commerce Comerce Commission

  • Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

  • Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Panic of 1907

  • William Howard Taft elected president

    Dollar diplomacy - the one goal was to preempt foreign powers from gaining or enlarging an investment.

  • Muller v. Oregon

  • William H. Taft elected president

  • Philander C. Knox offered the Japanese and Russians a deal

    The deal was to propose that american bankers and industrials would purchase the Manchurian railroads from Japan and Russia, and would go back to Chinese control. The offer was refused.

  • The Payne-Aldrich Tariff

  • The first Mexican Revolution begins

    People were led by the radical Francisco Madero.

  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded

  • Democrats regain control

    Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives in a landslide vicorty in the congressional elections

  • Legislature encacts storage and food inspaction laws

    Goes on until 1913

  • Mexican Revolution gains control

    The Mexican revolution is led by Francisco Madero, and in 1911 they gain control of Mexico and appoint Madero president.

  • Triangle Shirt disaster

  • American Bankers reorganize Nicaraguan financial structure

    American bankers and investors reorganize the Nicaraguan financial structure and begin to manage its customs service.

  • Woodrow Wilson removes governmental support

    Woodrow Wilson removes governmental support for American businesses operating in the Caribbean and China.

  • U.S. offered the new Chinese Republic a huge loan

    The U.S. and five other nations offered the new Chinese Republic a huge loan.

  • Woodrow Wilson elected president

    only the second Democratic President since 1861

  • 2,500 marines land in Nicaragua

    A group of 2,500 marines land in Nicaragua to suppress a rebellion, and they remain for 13 years due to continued instability.

  • Roosevelt triumphantly returns

    Roosevelt triumphantly return and announced himself as a challenger for the Rupublican presidential nomination

  • DOCL splits

    The DOCL splits into two separate entities, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor

  • Revolutionary group in Mexico assassinates Madero.

    Another revolutionary group in Mexico assassinates Madero: the leader of the coup, General Victoriano Huerta, then assume the presidency

  • Mexico investment over a billion dollars.

    American investment in Mexico is well over a billion dollars, including significant ownership in railroads, oil resources, and mines.

  • Wilson personally appears

    In an unprecedented move, Wilson personally appears before Congress to call a special session to discuss tariffs

  • Federal Trade Commission Act

    ---allows the government to closely inspect companies engaged in interstate commerce, such as meatpackers and railroads

  • U.S. supplies weapons to Huerta's rivals.

    The U.S. begin supplying weapons to Huerta's rivals, Venustiano Carranza and Francisco Pancho Villa. After intense internal and external pressure, President Huerta steps down as ruler of Mexico.

  • Assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

    The tensions in Europe that had been growing for many years culminate with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian terrorist organization.

  • World War 1

    Outbreak of World War 1, Germany declares war on Russia.

  • Trades drop

    Trade between the United States and Germany drops off dramatically.

  • Haitian people rebell.

    The Haitian people are outraged by the oppressive nature of their President, so they rebell

  • Germany Sinks. . .

    Germany sinks the British steamer Falaba, German submarine sinks Lusitania, Germany sinks the Arabic, another British liner, killing two Americans.

  • Wilson signs the Jones Act.

    Wilson signs the Jones Act of 1916, which promises the Philippines independence as soon as they are able to demonstrate that they have a stable government.

  • Germany trying to end military stalemate.

    Trying to end the military stalemate in Europe, Germany declares that they will wage unrestricted warfare against all shipping vessels in the war zone.

  • United States enters war.

    United States enters war against Germany.

  • Act of 1917

    The U.S. government establishes the Espionage Act of 1917.

  • Wilson recalls General John J.

    Wilson recalls General John J. Pershing and his men from Mexico.

  • The revenue from income taxes greatly exceeds receipts from the tariff

  • Act of 1918

    Congress passes the Sedition Act of 1918.

  • Schenck v. U.S.

    Socialist Eugene V. Debs is convicted under the Espionage Act and is sentences to 10 years in a federal penitentiary for giving an anti-war speech.

  • Kellog-Briand Peace Pact

    In August 1928, the Kellog-Biand Pact was signed in Paris.

  • Hitler comes to power in Gernamy

    On January 30, 1933, Hitler became chancellor, and embarked on the plan he created in his autobiographical book, Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nations.

  • Platt Amendment

    The Platt Amendment gives U.S. oversight authority over Cuba

  • Merchants of Death

    Helmuth Englebrecht's and Frank Hanighen's, The Merchants of Death

  • First Neutrality Act

    The first Neutrality bill passed Congress with little debate in August 1935.

  • Third Reich

    The Third Reich begins re-armament program

  • Second Neutrality Act

    The Second Neutrality Act added an additional sanction to the first law, prohibiting loans to belligerents.

  • Spanish Civil War

    By the time both Neutrality Acts were due, the Spanich Civil War was breaking out.

  • Third Neutrality Act

    The Third Neutrality Act kept the basic restrictions in cases of "civil strife".

  • Japanese pilots bomb and sink

  • American gunboat USS panay

  • Munich Conference

    In an effort to settle the crisis, Hitler met with Chamberlain and Daladier at Munich in late September 1938.

  • Kristallnacht

    In November 1938, Americans were surprised by the news of "kristallnacht", -Nazi thugs, spurred on by black-shirted SS, rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods.

  • Fourth Neutrality Act

    After six weeks of bitter debate, the Fourth Neutrality law was passed over Republican protests.

  • WWII commences in Europe with Germany's invasion of Poland

  • Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and invades Poland

    The Second World War commenced in Europe when German troops invaded Poland.

  • Declaration of Panama strengthens U.S. defenses

    The United States strengthened hemispheric defenses with the Declaration of Panama, drafted in October 1939

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president for the third term

  • William Allen White founds Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies

  • Japan joins forces with Germany and Italy in the Tripartite Pact

  • Battle of Britain

    During the ensuing "Battle of Britain", the German Luftwaffe rained destruction on the major cities in southern England.

  • Destroyer-Bases deal between U.S. and Britain

  • Lend-Lease aid to Allies

    In January 1941, President Roosevelt urged further support to those nations fighting tyranny and fascism.

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Franklin Rooseelt and Winston Churchill meet for the first time

  • Atlantic Charter

  • United States enters World War II

    By the fall of 1941, the Unites States was engaged in an undeclared naval war with Germany, Roosevelt ordered the navy to "shoot on sight" any German submarines after an American destroyer.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

  • Allied forces invade Normandy (D-Day)

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Germany surrenders: Japan surrenders

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt dies

  • Ho Chi Minh proclaims a Democratic Republic of Vietnam and names Hanoi its capital

  • Ho Chi Minh proclaims a Democratic Republic of Vietnam and names Hanoi its capital

  • "Free State"

    French government recognizes Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh government as a 'free state"

  • French government recognizes Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh government as a "free state"

  • America grants the Philippines independence

    The America grants the Philippines independence.

  • Chinese leaders agree to a settlement that ends the aggression in Korea

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Ending aggression in Korea

    Chinese leaders agree to a settlement that ends the aggression in Korea.

  • Operation AJAX

    Operation AJAX forces Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh from power.

  • Eisenhower appoints Earl Warren to the Supreme Court

  • Joseph Stalin dies

  • Operation AJAX forces Iranian premier Mohammed Mossadegh from power

  • Nikita Khrushchev assumes Russian leadership

  • Nikita Khruschev assumes Russian leadership

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • (SEATO)

    Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.

  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama

  • Virginia state legislature cuts funds for integrated schools to stall further integration

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president for a second term.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower elected president for a second term

  • Only 700 of 10,000 school districts in the south had desegregated

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is founded

  • (NFL) stages attacks

    National Liberation Front stages attacks on South Vietnamese government.

  • National Liberation Front (NLF) stages attacks on South Vietnamese government

  • Khrushchev and V.P. Nixon have the "Kitchen Debate" at the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Moscow

  • "Kitchen Debate"

    Khrushchev and V.P. Nixon have the "Kitchen Debate" at the U.S. Trade and Cultural Fair in Moscow.

  • U-2 incident

  • John F. Kennedy elected president

  • "Sit-in" movement begins in Greensboro, North Carolina

  • "Sit-in" movement begins in Greensboro, North Carolina

  • Students for a Democratic Society founded

  • Soviets construct Berlin Wall

  • Bay of Pigs invasion

  • Area Redevelopment Act

  • Peace Corps created

  • Cuban missile crisis

  • SDS issues Port Huron Statement

  • Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

  • Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham City Jail"

  • March on Washington for civil rights

  • Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

  • March on Washington for civil rights

  • Lyndon B. Johnson elected president

  • Free Speech Movement formed

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Civil Rights Acts

    1964, Civil Rights Acts

  • President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society

  • Voting troop buildup begins in Vietnam

  • U.S. troop buildup begins in Vietnam

  • Miranda v. Arizona

  • National Organization for Women is founded

  • Tet Offensive in Vietnam

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

  • Woodstock Festival for Music and Peace

  • George Bush elected president

  • Savings and Loan crisis and bailout

  • End of Communist Party rule in East-block nations

  • Fall of Berlin Wall

  • U.S. military action in Panama

  • Persian Gulf crisis

  • U.S. military action against Iraq

  • Failed coup in the Soviet Union

  • Riots in Los Angeles

  • Bill Clinton elected president

  • Attempts to legislale national health care reform fail in Congress

  • Terririst bombing of the World Trade Center

  • Brady Bill

  • Family and Medical Leace Act (FMLA)

  • World Trade Center bombing in New York

  • U.S. commits troope to relieve famine and halt clan warfare in Somalia

  • Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City

  • Government shuts down over national budget

  • President Clinton reelected

  • President Clinton impeached for perjury and obstruction of justice.

  • NATO forces bomb Serbia to stop "ethnic cleansing"

  • George W. Bush elected president.

  • World Trade Center towers bombed

  • UN Security Council approves inspection standard Resolution 1441

  • U.S. troops deployed to Middle East

  • U.S. troops kill Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay, in a gunfight

  • U.S. forces capture Saddam Hussein