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20th Century Timeline
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Spanish American War
A conflict between the United States and Spain. -
Open Door Policy
(1899-1900) Issued by U.S. Secretary John Hay. A policy granting equal trade opportunities to all countries. The statement reaffirmed the principle that all countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade. Protection of equal privileges among countries trading with China. -
Boxer Rebellion
The objective of the Chinese was to drive out all foreigners, remove all foreign influence, and compel Chinese Christians to give up their religion. “Boxer” was the name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society known as the Yihequan. -
National Reclamation Act (Newlands)
This act provided federal funds for dams, reservoirs, and canals in the West. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
were federal laws passed in 1882, 1892, and 1902 to prevent Chinese immigration to the United States. law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1882 in response to nativist hatred of Chinese immigrants. It prevented the large scale immigration of Chinese workers into the U.S. although tens of thousands came in illegally. -
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
It was a treaty that granted the US land to Guild the Panama canal in Exchange for $10 million and annual payments to Panama. Ocurred shortly after Panama’s independence. -
Hepburn Act
The Hepburn Act gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum rates considered "just and reasonable" and the authority to look at the railroads’ financial records. -
Panic of 1907
A financial crisis that occurred when the New York Stock Exchange fell close to 50% from its peak the previous year. This was a time of economic recession, and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. This spread when many state and local banks and businesses entered into bankruptcy. -
Ballingor-Pinchot Controversy
This was a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger that contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 Presidential Election and helped to define the U.S. conservation movement in the early 20th century. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft's foreign policy, invest in foreign companies and nations first so other countries cannot. -
Federal Reserve System
The Federal Reserve System was the central banking system of the United States. One of the most powerful agencies in the government, it makes and administers policy for national credit and monetary policies. The Fed supervises and regulates bank functions across the country, thus maintaining a sound and stable banking industry, able to deal with a wide range of domestic and international financial demands. -
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
The act prohibited exclusive sales contracts, local price cutting to freeze out competitors, rebates, interlocking directorates in corporations capitalized at $1 million or more in the same field of business, and intercorporate stock holdings. Labor unions and agricultural cooperatives were excluded from the forbidden combinations in the restraint of trade. -
Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission was established to preserve competition by preventing unfair business practices and investigate complaints against companies. -
Zimmerman Note
A proposal from Germany to Mexico to make war against the United States. It was ignored by Mexico but angered Americans and led in part to the declaration of war in April. -
Fourteen Points
A speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. -
Influenza Epidemic
It killed almost 30 million worldwide, spread between military camps and to the urban population; a disease situation that was spread by american soldiers contracting the disease in kansas and bringing it to france. -
18th Amendment
In the 1920’s, the amendment went into affect and prohibited the invent and sale of alcohol in America. Many Americans supported the law in the beginning, but there were not enough police to stop the drinking habits of so many Americans. -
League of Nations
An association of countries established in 1919 by the Treaty of Versailles to promote international cooperation and achieve international peace and security. -
Treaty of Versailles
It was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
The Steel Strike
An attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the AA) to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I.
