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1900-1920

By SarahMckenna

  • American troops helped put down the boxer rebellion

    The boxer rebellion was Chinese people who were fighting against American merchants and missionaries that were trying to help china

  • McKinley is assassinated

    Leon Czolgosz murders president McKinley

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    This justified that America would be the police of the sea throughout their hemisphere

  • Upton Sinclair published the jungle

    This book showed how bad working conditions truly were, and also showed how unsanitary the food industry was to its consumers

  • Meat inspection act and pure food and drug act passed

    This act now created a department to make sure things were sanitary in the factories food was produced and that they were up to certain set standards

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

    146 women were killed after they were locked in the room to sew, they were locked in to prevent them from taking breaks although it was very hot in this room, many women jumped from the building so that they would not be burned alive

  • Woodrow Wilson wins presidency

  • Clayton Anti-trust act passed

    This established that there would be no more trusts

  • WWI starts

    Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary by a Serb sparked WW1

  • Lusitania sunk

    German U-Boats sink the Lusitania killing hundreds of Americans on board

  • Zimmerman telegram

    German telegram that was intercepted by the British, that asked Mexico to go to war with America so that they would stay out of the European war, this outraged Americans

  • Congress declares war on Germany

  • influenza pandemic

    The flu spread all over the world, mainly killing people ages 18-36, spreading especially through war hospitals

  • Germany agreed to an armistice

    This ended the war

  • Treaty with Germany was signed

    This may have solved things for now, but Germans saw this as unfair and it created "imperfect Peace"

  • Wilson presented his 14 points plan

    This was a list of ways for Germany to pay for reparations, and to help prevent anything like this war from happening again

  • 19th amendment passed

    Women now have the right to vote