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National Labor Union organized
It excluded Chinese and made small efforts to include women and blacks. Worked for Arbitration of industrial disputes and 8-hour workday -
Grant Defeats Seymour for presidency
Grant defeats seymour for presidency in the election. -
Transcontinental railroad joined near Ogden, Utah
The two railroad companies building it finally met. -
Knights of Labor organized
Barred “nonproducers” professional gamblers, lawyers, bankers, and stockholders Campaigned for economic and social reform, including codes for safety and health as well as an 8-hour workdays -
standard oil company organized
established by rockefeller. sought to eliminate the middlemen and squeeze out competitors. Flourished in an era of completely free enterprise -
Credit Mobilier Scandel Exposed
Some people created a fake company, the credit mobilier construction company. They hired themselves to build the railraod to inflate price. -
Panic of 1873
people woried about the money situation because too much of it had been spent or loaned out. -
Whiskey Ring Scandel
To aid in the Civil War, liquor taxes were increased. People in government took money from the Whiskey excise tax revenue, including Grant’s secretary -
Resumption Act Passed
provided for the replacement of the Civil War fractional currency by silver coins -
Civil Rights Act of 1875
guaranteed that everyone, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, was entitled to the same treatment in "public accommodations" -
Bell Invents the telephone
He taughed the deaf. created the phone for communications -
Compromise of 1877
Southern Democrats would acknowledge Hayes as President -
Edison invents the electric light
Edison was considered dumb, but was very smart and invented a lot of things. -
Garfield Assassinated
President Garfield suffered and died from a massive heart attack -
Chinese Exclusion Act
Prohibited all Chinese immigration until 1943 -
Haymarket Square bombing
Strike that was organized by the Knights of Labor. A dynamite bomb was thrown that killed 11 and injured over 100 people, including police -
American Federation of Labor formed
Created by Samuel Gompers. Consisted of a federation of self-governing national unions, each of which kept its independence. The AFL would unify its overall strategy and pool funds, enabling them to ride out prolonged strikes -
Interstate Commerce Act
Prohibited rebates and pools. Required the railroads to publish their rates openly. Forbade unfair discrimination against shippers. Outlawed charging more for a short haul than for a long one over the same line -
McKinley Tariff Act
Boosted rates to their highest peacetime level ever (48.4%) -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Declared every contract, combination, or conspiracy in which interstate trade was restricted to be illegal and Corporate monopolies were exposed to federal prosecution if found to conspire in restraining trade -
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Wealth Against Commonwealth – criticized the Standard Oil Company trust -
Carey Act
Distributed federal land to the States on the condition that it be irrigated and settled -
the Maine
mysteriously blew up in Havana harbor, with a loss of 260 sailors -
Surrender of Santiago
The spaniards left the harbor and tried to go home, but got caught in the american blockade. the spanish flet was destroyed and santiago surrendered -
Congress Annexed Hawaii
congress annexed Hawaii and granted residents u.s. ctizenship. -
Teller Amendment
Promised that when the U.S. overthrew Spanish rule in Cuba, the U.S. would give Cubans their indpendence. -
Foraker Act
Gave Puerto Ricans a limited degree of self government. -
Boxer Rebellion
a superpatriotic group known for heir training in martial arts:
Murdered more than 200 foreigners and murdered thousands of chinese christians. -
Platt Amendment
it was written into the constitution of cuba by the U.S. and in effect, made Cuba a U.S. protectorate. -
Insular Cases
addressed the question, "Did the Consitiution follow the flag?" meaning did the U.S. Constitution apply to the newly acquired areas. -
Panama Canal Route
Congress decided on the Panama route -
Newlands Act
Authorized the federal government to collect money from the sale of public lands in the dry western States and use the funds for irrigation projects -
Elkins Act
heavy fines could now be imposed both on the railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that excepted them -
Lochner v. New York
The Supreme Court invalidated a New York law establishing a 10-hour day for bakers -
Nobel Peace Prize
Teddy Roosevelt recieved the peace prize -
Meat Inspection Act
The preparation of meat shipped over State lines would be subject to federal inspection -
Pure food and drug act
Designed to prevent the mixing and mislabeling of foods and drugs -
Panic of 1907
People “running” to banks to get out their money
People committed suicide
Criminal indictments against speculators -
Root-Takahira Agreement
It pledged both powers to respect each other’s territorial possessions in the Pacific and to uphold the Open Door in China -
Muller v. Oregon
Muller, a laundry owner, challenged the legality of the law, arguing that it violated the “liberty to contract.” He had asked an employee to remain after hours to do an extra load of laundry and was fined $10. Muller refused to pay the fine -
Payne Aldrich Tariff
increased the duty on print paper -
Ballinger- Pinchot affair
a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
building caught on fire in new york city, leaving around 175 trapped inside to die. -
Wilson v. Taft and Roosevelt
Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency -
Federal Reserve Act
There were to be at least eight, and no more than 12, private regional Federal reserve banks -
Underwood Tariff Act
re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25% -
16th Amendment Passed
allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. -
17th Amendment passed
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote -
Clayton Anti Trust Act
added to the Sherman AntiTrust act. specified particular prohibited conduct, the three-level enforcement scheme, the exemptions, and the remedial measures -
Federal Trade Commission established
the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of what regulators perceive to be harmfully anti-competitive business practices -
World War 1 Begins
involved all the world's great powers,[5] which were assembled in two opposing alliances -
Bolshevik Revolution
communist Russia toppled the tsar regime. Russia pulled out of the "capitalist" war, freeing up thousands of Germans on the Russian front to fight the western front in France. Russia pulling out allowed the U.S. fight solidly for Democracy in the war. -
draft act
It required the registration of all males between the ages of 18 and 45, and did not allow for a man to purchase his exemption from the draft -
Fourteen Points Address
idealistic in tone and primarily a peace program, had certain very practical uses as an instrument for propaganda -
Espionage Act of 1917
made spying illegal -
Sedition Act of 1918
can not say bad things about the government, -
18th Amendment
prohibiting all alcoholic drinks -
Treaty of Versailles
peace treaty forced upon Germany. -
Schenck v. United States
argued that freedom of speech could be revoked when such speech posed a danger to the nation -
19th Amendment
giving all American women the right to vote -
election of 1920
Harding's victory lead to the death of the League of Nations -
red scare
resulted in a nationwide crusade against those whose Americanism was suspect -
Ku Klux Klan (Knights of the Invisible Empire)
antiforeign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, antipacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, antievolutionist, antibootlegger, antigambling, antiadultery, and anti-birth control. It was pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-"native" American, and pro-Protestant -
Henry Ford
(1920s) Henry Ford, father of the assembly line, created the Model T and erected an immense personal empire on the cornerstone of his mechanical genius -
Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act of 1921
providing federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care -
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
restricting newcomers from Europe in any given year to a definite quota, which was at 3% of the people of their nationality -
Alice Paul
formed the National Women's Party in 1923 to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. -
Immigration Act of 1924
replaced the Quota Act of 1921, cutting quotas for foreigners from 3% to 2%. -
John T. Scopes
indicted in Tennessee for teaching evolution. was defended by Clarence Darrow, while former presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan prosecuted him. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100. -
Charles A. Lindberg
became the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean -
"Black Tuesday"
millions of stocks were sold in a panic. By the end of 1929, two months after the initial crash, stockholders had lost $40 billion. As a result of the crash, millions lost their jobs and thousands of banks closed. -
Bank Holiday
closed banks to make sure they are stable to reopen. did not allow people to take out money for 5 days -
Tydings-McDuffie Act
Gave the Philippine's their indepencence. -
Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act
establish a lower tariff for particular imports, it would act unilaterally, taking the foreign country’s tariff rate as fixed. -
U.S. Neutrality Act of 1935
imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war -
Social Security Act
provided benefits to retirees and the unemployed -
Works Project Administration
employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects -
Wagner Act
Legalized strikes and organizing -
Neutrality Act of 1936
renewed the provisions of the 1935 act for another 14 months. It also forbade all loans or credits to belligerents. -
Neutrality Act of 1937
the Congress passed a joint resolution outlawing the arms trade with Spain -
Neutrality Act of 1939
was passed, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations on a cash and carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo
