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Boxer Rebellion
The rebellion was a nationalist movement during 1898-1901, opposing Christianity and foreign imperialism. This event was taken place in China. The uprising soon fell after the Eight Nation Alliance brought 20,000 troops to China and put an end to the war. This event stopped on September 7th 1901 with the Boxer Protocol. -
Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
This book was based on the American Naturalism in the book, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and later matured in his book Sister Carrie. -
Coal Strike
This strike was made by the United Mine Workers of America in the coal fields of Pennsylvania. The workers were asking for higher wages, fewer hours, and recognition of their union. They threatened to shut down fuel supplies for the cities -
National Reclamation Act (Newlands)
The National Reclamation Act of 1902 is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects in arid areas of 20 states in the west. Due to this funding of irrigation systems, the states are more populous now and more habitable. -
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast was a poilitcal cartoonist who showed his feelings through cartoons. He was the one who came up with the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, Santa Claus, and Uncle same. -
Lincoln Steffen's Shame of the Cities
The book was initially six articles that were written based on corruption in America. -
Meat Inspection Act & Pure Food & Drug
This act is a United States Federal Law that provided inspection of any meat products and forbade manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous medicines. Muckrackers, Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt were for this act. -
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Sinclair wrote this novel portraying as an immigrant and writes about the harsh life of one. Poverty and the absences of social programs. It also states how American industry in meat packing is corrupt and this book was a viewed as insight. -
Promise of an American Life
The novel was written in 1909 and was probably one of the truest statements of the Progressive political movement. -
Federal Reserve System 1913
The system is the central banking of the United States. The Federal Reserve System was created in response to the financial panics and the panic of 1907. It later evolved to a more responsible system and the Great Depression later would change the system even more. -
Underwood Simmons Tariff 1913
This tariff was implemented to lower the tax from 40%- 25% made by Payne Aldrich Tariff of 1909. -
Marcus Garvey
Garvey was a Jamaican publisher, orator, journelist, and entrepreneur. He was an advocate for Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. He founded the Black Star Line and the UNIA-ACL. -
Jacob Riis
Riis was a Danish American social reformer, muckracking journalist and social documentary photgrapher. He used his talents to help the improvished New Yorkers of New York City. -
Federal Trade Commission
FTC is an independent agency of the United States and its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of competitive business practices. -
Intervention of Vera Cruz
The intervention of America in Vera Cruz was to stop Pancho who was the leader of the rebellion in Mexico. -
United States Intervention of Mexico
The US had to interveine during the Mexican Revolution. 1914-1917. -
The Birth of a Nation
This was a silent film that strongly portrayed black men as beasts and sex fiends while the white men were thought highly of. This was basically a film advocating the KKK. -
The Passing of the Great Race
This was scientifically racist written by Madison Grant. However, this was ignored and never became a best seller. -
Louis Brandeis
Brandeis was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1916-1939. He was nominated by Wilson and with that came a lot of challenges facing the nomination because people say Brandeis was a social crusader and because he was a Jew. -
Steel Strike
The strike happened after WW1 in a failed attempt to unify the steel unions together.