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Period: to
1898-1921
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National (Newlands) Reclamation Act
-funded irrigation projects for the arid lands in West America
-not conservation -
Mediates Coal Strike
- United Mine Workers of America -higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union
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Chinese Exclusion Act made permanent
-restricted Chinese immigration to the U.S. -
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
-gave US rights to build Panama Canal & Canal Zone -
Hepburn Act
-regulates RR rates
-interstate commerce commission -
(Teddy Roosevelt) Gentleman’s Agreement
-restricted Japanese immigration -
Payne-Aldrich tariff
-cut tarriffs some not as much as Progressives wanted
-caused Teddy Roosevelt to break with Taft & seek election in 1912 -
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
-Taft fired Chief Forrester Pinchot for accusing Interior Sec Ballinger of benefiting business interests at expense of US natural resources
-Alienated Progs & TR -
W.E.B. DuBois
-Advocates full social, pol, & eco equality of blacks with whites
-co-founds NAACP (1909) with whites = Niagara Movement
-Believed “Talented Tenth” would lead
-opposed Booker T Washington’s conservative approach
-1st Black to get Harvard PhD
(1868-1963) -
Great Migration
-Blacks moving from South to industrial cities of North & Midwest
-began during labor shortages of WWI
(1910-1970) -
Trust Buster
-Carried on Teddy Roosevelt anti-trust policies
-agaisnt US Steel & break up Standard Oil Co. -
Underwood-Simmons Tariff
-lowers tariffs -
17th Amendment
-direct election of senators
-lessen party boss power -
16th Amendment
-progressive (on rich) income taxes -
Military Intervention in Vera Cruz
Mexico: April- Nov US military controls city after MEX officials seized US sailors & refused to give humiliating apology. -
Booker T. Washington
-former slave, does not advocate political, eco, or social equality of negroes and whites
-in 1905 Atlanta Compromise asked whites to allow negroes to learn vocational skills & earn living
-founder of Tuskegee Institute, AL., vocational training school
(1856-1915) -
(Madison Grant’s) Passing of the Great Race
-Nativists warns “mongrelization” by immigrants -
Fourteen Points
-plan for peace after WW1 included self determinations & League of Nations -
Steel Strike
-Massive violent strike led by union leader Samuel Gompers
-broken by national guards
-20 deaths
-contributed to red scare, as a communist helped lead strike
-Years of Strikes! -
Steel Strike
-Massive violent strike led by union leader Samuel Gompers
-broken by national guards
-20 deaths
-contributed to red scare, as a communist helped lead strike
-Years of Strikes! -
Marcus Garvey
-advocated pride in African Heritage (black pride) & back to Africa for full equality
(1887-1940)
