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Grange Movement
Oliver Hudson Kelley, an employee of Department of Agriculture, created an organization that he hoped could bring together farmers for educational discussions to better their lives. The organization then became an activist group that got a law passed for fixing the maximum rates that grain- storage facilities and railroads could charge.
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Many Americans on the West Coast credited the low wages and economic suffrage to Chinese immigrants, which caused congress to pass the act to satisfy the Americans concerns on white "racial purity" and made it harder for the Chinese to immigrate. (Picture)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act#/media/File:Coolieusa.jpg -
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
The Civil Service Commission ensure that Federal Government jobs were distributed on the basis of merit and the selection of Government employees through equal exams.
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Dawes Severalty Act
The act allowed the President to break up many Native Americans reservations that then could be parceled out to individuals. Any Native who accepted the small alotment and settled on it for 25 years would be granted citizenship, little did they know about the loopholes.
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National American Women Suffrage Association
NAWSA was founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton who wanted to secure the right to vote by pushing "for the ratification of enough state suffrage amendments to force congress to approve a federal amendment"
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Wounded Knee Massacre
"The slaughter of approximately 150-300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota." The massacre was an effort to restrain from any assimilation among the Plains Indians.
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Pullman Strike
George M. Pullman owner of, the Pullman Palace Car Company near Chicago, refused to meet the needs of his workers by cutting wages by 25%and working his employees through 16 hour workdays. Workers refused to work but the Supreme Court defended Pullmans business by breaking up strikes.
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Plessy v. Ferguson
"African-American train passenger, Homer Plessy, refused to sit in a car for blacks. Rejecting Plessy’s argument that his constitutional rights were violated, the Supreme Court ruled that a law that “implies merely a legal distinction” between whites and blacks was not unconstitutional. As a result, restrictive Jim Crow legislation and separate public accommodations based on race became commonplace." (History.com)
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Establishment of Carlisle Indian School
The United States government wanted to assimilate young Native Americans, creating the term "Kill the Indian, Save the man". Col. Richard Pratt wanted to force Americanization through an off-reservation boarding school.
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The Spanish American War
In 1895, the Cuban War of Independence from Spanish rule began. February 1898, a U.S. battleship originally sent to protect US interest on the island was sank. The American press fabricated the story enough to blockade Cuban ports and declare war. The U.S. defeated the Spanish at the Battle of San Juan Hill (Teddy Roosevelt became famous). Cuba gained independence while under U.S. sphere of influence, Spain gave U.S. Puerto Rico, Guam and Philippines.
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President McKinley Assassinated, Roosevelt Takes Presidency
President William McKinley was in Buffalo, New York shaking hands with the public at the Temple of Music when he was shot by American anarchist Leon Czoglosz. Vice president, Theodore Roosevelt, also known as 'the first modern president' succeeded the presidency.
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Industrial Workers of the World Founded
Industrial Workers of the World had main goals of becoming "one big union" and ending the exploitation of labor. William Haywood was the organizations leader and symbol, they were generally violent and disastrous because they thought it would grab the attention of businesses.
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Dollar Diplomacy/Federal Reserve Act
President Taft created dollar diplomacy and was a form of foreign policy to minimize the use/threat of military force. By guaranteeing loans to foreign countries, it was aimed to make people in foreign lands and American investors prosper.
The Federal Reserve Act gave the 12 Federal Reserve banks the ability to print money and to ensure economic stability throughout the nation.
Federal Reserve Act Explained
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17th Amendment
The seventeenth amendment to the Constitution is ratified for the election of U.S. state Senators by the popular vote rather than by the state legislatures
17th Amendment and States Rights
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Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected into the U.S. House of Representatives. Bain News Service, P. (1917) Jeannette Rankin. , 1917. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2014704009/. -
U.S. Entry into WW1
The U.S. declared war on Germany after numerous events (sinking of Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, etc). Then later on Austria-Hungary in 1917 three years after conflict began in 1914. )Picture) https://usentryworldwarone.weebly.com/historical-context.html -
Spanish Flu
The worldwide influenza epidemic was the deadliest in history, infecting an estimated of 500 million people worldwide. Killing 20-30 million, 675,000 of them Americans. At the time, there was no vaccine or drugs to treat the deadly virus. In just one year, in 1918 the average life expectancy in America fell by a dozen years.
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Armistice: Ending WWI
An armistice ending WWI was signed in Le Francport near Compiègne, France that ended fighting on land, sea and air between the Allies and their opponent, Germany.
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18th Amendment/Beginning of Prohibition
The eighteenth amendment of the Constitution was ratified that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor. It was later repealed by the twenty-first amendment in 1933.
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19th Amendment
The nineteenth amendment to the Constitution is ratified, granting women the right to vote. This milestone was achieved by a decades of struggle, agitation, and protest. It all started in the mid 1800's, many woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote to lawmakers, marched, lobbied, etc. to achieve what many considered a radical change at the time.
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The "Lost Generation"
"Lost Generation" was considered the generation that came of age during WWI. The most famous among those were American writers who lived in Europe following after WWI. It became a transformation force in American literature with writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Beach, John Dos Passos, etc. Literacy Figures -
League of Nations/Fourteen Points
In 1919 after WWI, in an address to Congress Woodrow Wilson presented the "Fourteen Points". His written peace plan to end war forever, in 1920 negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles and his 14 points were used as a framework for the League of Nations. Its members consisted of 58 neighboring states and the United States never joined.
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Citations
U.S. History Timeline: Progressive Era and World Wars - 1900–1949. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.infoplease.com/history/us/us-history-progressive-era-and-world-wars-1900-1949. -
Citations
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-American-Woman-Suffrage-Association
Wounded Knee Massacre. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/event/Wounded-Knee-Massacre
Pullman Strike. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/event/Pullman-
Plessy v. Ferguson.Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
Carlisle Indian School Project. Retrieved from http://www.carlisleindianschoolproject.com/history/ -
Citations
The Industrial Workers of the World. Retrieved from https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldman-industrial-workers-world/
19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women's Right to Vote (1920). (2012). Retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=63.
Armistice - The End of World War I, 1918. (2004). Retrieved October 9, 2019, from http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/armistice.htm. -
Citations
Grange Movement. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/event/Granger-movement#targetText=Granger%20movement%2C%20coalition%20of%20U.S.,Granger%20movement
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). Retrieved from https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=47
Pendleton Act (1883). Retrieved from https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=48
Dawes Act (1887) Retrieved from -
Citations
Dollar diplomacy. (2019, October 1). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_diplomacy.
History.com, E. (2010, May 14). Spanish-American War. Retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/spanish-american-war.
The Progressive Era (1890 - 1920). (2010). Retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/progressive-era.cfm.
