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Congress and the Transcontinental
Congress finally authorized a transcontinental railway to be made. -
Railways unite
The Union and Central Pacific railways finally came together conncecting the country. -
Credit Mobilier
Train companies hired their own constructuion company and then paid them at an inflated price getting away with tons a of money until they were caught. -
Panic
people were taking out loans but were unable to make a profit and tus could not pay back their loan ruining the governments credit. -
Silver dollars
the government offically stopped coinage the the silver dollar -
Resumption act of 1875
said the government would tar to withdraw the paper money so all paper money would have it's face value in gold. -
Whiskey Ring Scandal
Boss Tweed ran the biggest Polotical machine and had bought himself into power. they stole revenue from income taxes. -
The telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone allowing information to be spread faster than before. -
Compromise of 1877
Made Hays the president in return for withdrawing federal troops from the south. -
Interstate Commerce Act
First Lagre-scale attempt by washin gton to control business in the intrest of society. -
Chimese Exclusion act
Closed American doors to anyone innigrating from China. -
Pedleton Act
Civil service reform, you havve to take a test to get any federal job. -
Civil rights cases
Allowed peopl to enforce rules against the blacks. -
Time zones
Local thimes were different from town to town so they made time in relation to the railways to avoid crashes and such. -
*First Democrat
Grover Cleveland was the first democrat since Buchanan to become the president ending a long republican office claim. -
Haymarket
There was a fight that broke out at Haymarket when some one threw a stick of dynamite it killed sevel dozen people including the police. -
Sherman Anit-Trust Act
The governments first real act of trying to control business excesses. -
McKinley Tariff Acy of 1890
Raised tariff to the highest price they had seen. 48.4% farmers were unhappy and left even further in debt. -
The last spike
The very last spike of the five transcontinental railroads of the 19th century was hammered in. -
Depression of 1893
Lasting for about four or so years, thousands of business closed and the entire country was in a pinch -
The Cubans revolt
The Cubans were tired of the Spanish "oppressor" and revloted partly because of the economy and the US tariff. -
The Butcher
Spain sent General Weyler and he crushed their rebelions by putting them into concentration capms, thus they could not help the other fighters. -
The Butcher leaves
Even though this man was removed from Cuba, their conditons continued to get worse and worse. -
The Maine set out
Early that year, the Maine was sent out for a so called friendly visit but it was really sent out to protect and evacuate Americans if anything bad went down. -
Dupuy de Lome
Herst put out an article sayinf that a letter written by D.Lome the spanish minister in the US, that said he felt that McKinley "was an ear-to-the-ground politician who lacked good faith" he had to resigh afterwards -
The Maine Blows up
an already stressed situation turns into a motivation to go to war with Spain. -
without permission
Teddy Roosevelt told George Dewey to attack the Philippines even though it was now Teddy's place to do so -
War message
McKinley sent his request to congress to go into war to free Cuba -
Dewey
Dewey caries out Teddy Roosevelt's order and claims a huge victory. -
Spanish deduction of the Maine
Even though hearst made it sound as if the spanish blew up the Maine, the spanish went in and came up with the conclusion that something went wrong in the boiler room which blew up the ship...but of course no one listned.. -
Armistice
Spain had " satisfied its honor" so they sighned an armistice -
Manila
The American troops captured Manila -
Hawii
Hawii is annexed -
Teller
The Teller Amendment said that the US would leave Cuba after they had freed them from Spain -
Treaty
Bryan convinced them to set a treaty and give the Filipinos their independece -
Hawaii
The people of Hawii were given a US citizenship following their annexation -
Insular Cases
The supreme Court decided that even though the filipinos were under US rule they did not get full citizenship. -
Platt
the Cuban's were forced to wirte the Platt amendment into thier constitution and it kept them bonded to the US while still following the Teller amendment. -
US leaves
Keeping to the Teller amendment, the US leaves the Cuban's to themselves -
Cleveland Died
When he died, everyone paid thier respects including the Latin American republics who were glad for the help from the US. -
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Bill that Taft signed eventhough his capmaign promises said he would not. -
Roosevelt
Roosevelt went to Kansas and did his speech about the New Nationalism -
Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Secretary Ballinger opened land in Alaska,Wyoming, and Montana. the peole and conservationists were not very happy about it. -
Anti trust suit against U.S Steel
Taft pressed an Anti trust suit against U.S Steel making roosevelt extremely angry -
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
many girls died in this fire that they could have survived if the exits had not been locked. this fire led to rules and regulations to keep it from happening again -
Standard Oil
the standard oil company was judged to be in violation of the Sherman Anti- Tryst Act -
Taft
Taft wins the republican nomination over T.Roosevelt. -
roosevelt in back in the ring
Roosevelt wrote to seven state governers that he would accept the Republican nomination -
17th amendment
this amendment allowed the people direct election of U.S senators. -
Austria declared war
July, Austria presented Serbia with an "ultimatum". An they wanted to end all anti-Austrian activity . The Serbian leaders agreed to most of Austria’s demands, but Austria still declared war -
Lusitania
Germany sunk this ship with their U-boats -
Sussex Pledge
Germany was to stop sinking ships -
Wilson's Peace
Wilson declares American's dedication to neutral right "peace without victory" -
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany declared they wouls sink all ships in the war zone -
Espionage Act 1917
This avt made Spying illegal -
Zimmerman note
Note from Germany to Mexico stating that Germany would aid in a fight to gain back their land. -
WWI
United States eneter wwi -
Bolshevik Revolution
Revolution when communists took over germany -
Sedition Act of 1918
Made it illegal for people to say things that couls hinder the war efforts. -
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
Pershing was in charge of the huge 1million man force. -
Armistice
Ended WWI -
18th Amendment
Prohibited alcohol -
19th amendment
Gave women the right to vote -
Emergency Quota Act of 1921
Reduced Immigration into the US to 3% -
Immigration Act of 1924
Reduced the 3% immigration to 2% -
Scopes
Trial where C.Darwin's theory lost and was thrown out of schools. -
Sacco & Vanzetti
Case where the ruling showed the tension during the red scare. -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
the "outlawry of war" the pact was weak and offered no protection -
Agricultural Marketing Act
Was made to help farmers, it then created the Federal Farm Board -
Stock market crash
"Black Tuesday" the day the stock market crashed and started the great depression. -
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
Provided for the FDIC wich insured people money and trust in the banks -
21st amendment
Removed Prohibition -
20th amendment
Got rid of the lame duck period for the president -
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Countries sigh off to agree to lower tarrif and help trades -
Tydings-McDuffie Act
Grants the Philippine independence on July 4th 1946 -
Wagner Act
Gave workers the right to unionize and strike -
Panay
Japan attacked a clearly marked american ship raising red flags for the americans -
WWII
Hitler and stalin invade poland and begin the war in europe -
Peace time draft
Hitler invaded Belgium and others causing the us to begin preparing to get invloved. -
Pearl harbor
Japan made an attack on American soil rousing the country into a soild and dangerous force
