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Immigration: Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited the immigration of Chinese citizens to the US. The act was intended to last for 10 years but was renewed in 1892 and it was made perminant in 1902. The Chinese Exclusion Act was then repealed on December 17, 1943. -
Reform: Knights of Labor
The Knights of Labor was the name for one of the most important labor unions in the Us in the 1800s. The Knights of Labor encouraged non racial-specific jobs and working conditions and 8 hour work days. -
Wild West: Buffalo "Hunting"
By the 1870s, "hunting" buffalo on the plains became very popular amongst people. Withing the next ten years, the buffalo are declaired endangered for the century. -
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Labor
Around the late 1800s, factories employed around 500 people per factory. By the early 1900s, Factories employed twice many peope as they did 30 years earlyer. This led to unsave and cramped working conditions and low wages. -
Industrialization: Standard Oil
Standard Oil was the most powerful oil company and too be the most powerful company in the US. Started by John D Rockefeller, this compony rose to power, and Standard Oil becomes one of the main reasons that the Federal Trade Commission Act was issued. -
Industrialization: Andrew Carnegie
In 1872 Andrew Carnegie started the mass production of steel. Steel was a stronger and cheaper metal to make compaired to iron and was useful for makeing things like bridges and railroads. -
Wild West: Yellowstone Park
On March 1st, 1872, Yellowstone is made America's first national park by Ulysses S. Grant. -
Industrialization: Alexander Graham Bell
On this day, Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. This greatly influenced the way people communicate with one another, -
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Immigration: The Numbers
Between the years 1880 and 1910, the muber of immigrants increase drasticly. By the year 1910, Eastern and Southern Europeans made up about 70% of the immigrants entering the US. Another large portion of immigrants came from Canada and Latin America. -
Wild West: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral had taken place in Tombstone, Arizona. During this famous gunfight, 3 were killed and 2 were wounded. -
Politics: The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887 Was made to try to "help" the Native Americans to become more westernized. The Dawes Act split Tribal Native territory into individual plots for the Natives to live in. -
Politics: New States Added
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington all become a part of the United States. -
Wild West: Wounded Knee
In a reservation on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the United States Cavalry kills 146 Lakota at Wounded Knee. The tradgety had occered without the United States "permision" but the group of people who had commited the crime had there crimes "forgotten". -
Labor: Strikes
The first strikes against Carnegie Steel Company and other companies started in 1892. The first of These strikes was the Homestead Strike. The second strike to arise was the Pullman Strike in 1893. -
Immigration: Ellis Island
The Ellis Island Immigration Center was created in 1892 to house the immigrants who could not afford to enter the US immediately. The immigration center housed and screened the foreigners before they had permission to enter the US. -
Reform: Populist Party
The American Populist party suggested and tried to appeal to the urban workers to create ways to start things like public ownership to the rural workers. -
Politics: Teddy Roosevelt
In 1901, Theodor Roosevelt becomes the president of the United States. Roosevelt became the 25th president of the US. -
Politics: Big Stick Diplomacy
President Roosevelts "catchphrase", "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far,", was used in the terms Big Stick diplomacy. This phrase means that you shoulnd first react to things with violence, but have your "army" back you up just in case. -
Labor: The Jungle
In theyear 1906, writer Upton Clair writes and publishes his book, The Jungle. The Jungle was a book that had described the current wirking conditions in places like meat factories, exposing the unclean and unsave working conditions in great detail. -
Industrialization: Henry Ford
During the early 1900s, Henry Ford begins to mass produce the Ford Automobile. This Is very benifitial to the US because it is the first and easiest form of personal transportation and the vehicles were easy to come by due to being mass produced. -
Industrialization: Standard Oil Broken Up
In 1911, the monopoly, Standard Oil is broken up into several different oil componies. This made the oil industry less competitive, thus lowering prices for oil all together -
Labor: Income Tax
Personal income tax was forst introduced in 1913, just before World War 1. Personal income tax was a tax to the people used to pay for things like public work projects and to pay for wars. -
Reform: The 16th Amendment
The 16th Amendment states: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." The 16th amendment stated income taxes to try to help the people of America for things like public projects and to pay for wars. -
Immigration: The End
During the year 1914 immigration in the US comes to a sudden halt. This is due to the start of World War 1. -
Reform: Federal Trade Commission Act
The Federal Trade Act was created to help reduce unfair buisness and monopolies. This greatly changed the ways buisness was handled at that time.
