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Platt amendment
this amendment was passed to take out the remaining troops left in Cuba. This didn't allow Cuba to give to any land to any other power other then united states. They were limited on negotiations. -
McKinley Assassinated
McKinley was the 25th president who was assassinated 6 months into his second term. he was killed by a 28 year old anarchist named Leon Czolgosz approaches him and fires two shots into his chest. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
This was a strike by United mine workers of America. this strike threaten to stop the winter fuel supply for many major US cities. At this time people were heated with coal to keep heated. In result the worker got a 10% increase in wages -
Newlands Reclamation Act
this was a federal law that funded irrigation projects for 20 states west of america.The purpose of this was to reclaim land for productive agriculture. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
this was a fire that busted out in the triangle shirtwaist factory. In 18 minutes the fire killed 146 people. this was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city. -
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States
this was a case against a oil company vs new jersey. they were accused of monopolizing and series of abusive and noncompetitive actions -
Great Migration
This is where 6 million African Americans moved out of rural southern united states. More than 90% of African Americans lived in south america. this had a big impact on urban life in the united states. -
18th amendment
Banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages -
Chicago Race Riots
during this riot 38 people died and over 500 people were injured, it was considered the worst of the 25 riots during the red summer. looting and murder made it the worse riot in Illinois -
19th Amendment
the 19th amendment was women suffrage. it gave women the right to vote -
The Washington Conference
In 1921 the world’s largest naval powers gathered in Washington, D.C for a conference to discuss naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in east Asia -
Kellogg-Briand Pact
This was a treaty is a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be -
The great depression
This lasted from 1929 to 1939, it was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October, this sent wall street in a panic and wiped millions of investors -
Good Neighbor Policy
US tries to back away from intervening in Latin America. Platt Amendment repealed. US achieves foreign policy goals through economic coercion and support of pro-American leaders. US kept a strong, but less threatening military presence, paying for military bases, arranged to train the nations' National Guard units -
Agricultural Adjustment Act
this was a federal program and public work projects. the process was restore agriculture prosperity by curtailing farm production and reducing export surpluses -
Tennessee Valley Authority
This provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee valley -
Banking Act of 1933
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Guaranteed bank deposits FDR artificially rose prices through inflationary measures as well -
Public Works Administration
This where the PWA budget serval billion dollars to spend on construction, which means providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, improving public welfare, and contributing to a revival of America. -
National Industrial Recovery Act
This was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the US congress to authorize the President to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery -
Keynesian Economics
This is where people earn money from their work. Businesses employ and pay people to work, then people can buy the things they want -
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
This was a supreme court case that invalidated as unconstitutional a provisional of the national industrial recovery act, that authorized the president to approve codes of fair competition for the poultry industry and other industries -
World war 2
Germany invaded Poland which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler’s Nazi state in retaliation. Global military conflict which was fought between the allied powers of the united states, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union against the axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan, with their allies -
Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
United states federal government to raise a national army for service in world war 1 through conscription. -
Roosevelt drafts a Judicial Reorganization bill
worried that the Supreme Court will strike down the Second New Deal. Proposed that Roosevelt be allowed to name a new federal judge for every sitting judge who had reached the age of 70. -
Korematsu v. United States
The supreme court case concerning the constitutionality of executive order 9066, in which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during world war 2 regardless of citizenship -
Conference at Potsdam
This was when the big three soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British prime minister Winston Churchill and the us president harry Truman met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of world war 2