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1887 Congress passes Interstate Commerce Act
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. -
1890 Congress passes Sherman Anti-Trust Act
the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. It was named for Senator John Sherman of Ohio, who was a chairman of the Senate finance committee and the Secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes. -
Puerto Rico & Cuba After the Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1898, 30 Stat. 1754, was an agreement made in 1898 that resulted in the Spanish Empire's surrendering control of Cuba and ceding Puerto Rico, parts of the Spanish West Indies, the island of Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. -
1901 U.S. Steel Corporation forms
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford makes the assembly line. Assembly Lines makes producing goods faster. -
Treaty of Versailles
one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of World War I were dealt with in separate treaties. -
Restrictions on immigrantion
Immigrants must be able to pass certain things before they are allowed to be in America. -
The Five Power Treaty
The Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty, which was signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy on Feb. 6, 1922, grew out of the opening proposal at the conference by U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to scrap almost 1,900,000 tons of warships belonging to the Great Powers. -
Bank Holiday Ends
Bank Holiday ends, resulting in the opening of banks. On March 13, deposits exceeded withdrawals in the first reopened banks. Raymond Moley stated "Capitalism was saved in 8 days". -
Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Act was a way for the United States not to get involved in the war. The States would not give money nor weapons to countries at war. By not interacting with those at war the US wouldn't get involved in the commotion. -
The Grapes of Wrath
Setting the story during the Great Depression, the author Jon Steinbeck traces the migration of an Oklahoma "Dust Bowl" family to California and their hardships as migrant farm workers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and publicized the injustices of migrant labor. -
The Lend-Lease Plan
The Lend- Lease Plan allowed the president to lend or lease arms and other supplies to countries whose defense was vital to the US. Isolationists were against it but most citizens favored it. Congress passed the act in March of 1941. -
Korean War
North Korea invaded South Korea, sparking the Korean War, the Cold War's first major conflict that continued until 1953. At the time, the Soviet Union had boycotted the United Nations (UN), thus forfeiting their veto rights. This allowed the UN to intervene in a civil war when it became apparent that the superior North Korean forces would unify the entire country. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea, with the later participation of millions of Chinese troops. After huge advances on bot -
Sputnik Launch
The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program. It was a key Cold War event that began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite. The launch of Sputnik I and the failure of its first two Project Vanguard launch attempts rattled the American public; President Dwight D. Eisenhower referred to it as the “Sputnik Crisis”. Although Sputnik was itself harmless, its orbiting scared the people of the US -
Bay of Pigs Attack
The Bay Of Pigs invasion refers to the CIA sponsored American attack of the Cuban government in order to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was a tricky plan to execute as US was not in war with Cuba then. Though the US planned to appear “not being involved” in this attack and declared about their non-intention to intervene in Cuban affairs, Cuba had already approached the UN with the facts about the US training mercenaries for this planned invasion. -
Dissolution of the soviets
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union following the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. On the previous day, 25 December 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching -
The Fast of Cesar Chavez
Many events precipitated the fast, especially the terrible suffering of the farm workers and their children, the crushing of farm worker rights, the dangers of pesticides, and the denial of fair and free elections.
Cesar said about the fast, " A fast is first and foremost personal. It is a fast for the purification of my own body, mind, and soul. The fast is also a heartfelt prayer for purification and strengthening for all those who work beside me in the farm worker movement. The fast is alsoa