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Settlement houses Emerge
Jane Addams opened Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago. A settlement house was a community center that provided social services to the urban poor. By 1911, the country had more than four hundred settlement houses. -
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Creation of the Yosemite National Park
Roosevelt admired the California naturalist John Muir, whose efforts led Congress to create the Yosemite National Park in 1890 -
Alfred T. Mahan
Alfred T. Mahan, a military historian and an officer in the United States Navy, played a key role in transforming America into a naval power. In The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Mahan asserted that since acient times, many great nations jad owed their greatness to powerful navies. -
Spanish-American War
The United States still stayed reluctant to the risk of war with other powers to acuire colonies. That changed though when America went to war against Spain. The United States aquired colonies and became a world power. -
The Boxer Rebellion
A multinational force of European, American, and Japanese troops was sent to the Chinese capital to quash the Boxer Rebellion. An initial force of 2,100 soldiers grew to more than 20,000, including 2,000 Americans. -
William Howard Taft
In 1901, William Howard Taft, the future president of the United States, becamse the governor of the Philippines. -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
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Florence Kelley formed the National Child Labor Committee
Kelley helped formed the NCLC, which successfully lobbied the federal government to create the U.S Children's health bureau in 1912. -
Congress passed the National Reclamation Act
The National Reclamation Act gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed . -
Canal Zone
Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of this chapter, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States. -
The Jungle was published
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was a novel that gave a horrid portrayal of how meat was packed. -
Congress pass the Meat Inspection Act
The Meat Inspection Act provided federal agents to inspect any meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat-processing plants -
Great White Fleet
Roosevelt sent this armada of 16 white battleships on a "good will cruise" around the world. The voyage of the Great White Fleet demonstrated America's increased military power to the world. -
Fight for Better Housing
In 1909, the NAACP focused on the battle for equal access to decent housing and professional careers like teaching. -
California state government expanded
Between 1910 and 1914, under Governor Hiram Johnson’s political leadership the California legislature expanded state government first by breaking the economic and political power of the Southern Pacific Railroad. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Taft hoped to achieve these ends by relying less on the big stick and more on the dollar diplomacy. As Taft commented in 1912, he looked to substitute the dollars for bullets. The policy aimed to increase American investments in businesses and bancks throughout Central America and the Carribbean. -
Federal Reserve Act
Woodrow Wilson pushed Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. This law placed national banks under the control of the Federal Reserve Board, which set up regional banks to hold the reserve funds from commercial banks. -
Woodrow Wilson becomes president
Woodrow Wilson became president of the United States in 1913 and ended his terms in 1921 -
Seventeenth Amendment Ratified
The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913, requiring that all senators be elected by the people (instead of state legislatures). -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
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Poison Gas
Poison gas was probably the most feared of all weapons in World War One. In August 1914, the French used tear gas grenades containing xylyl bromide on the Germans. -
Lusitania
A German U-bpat sank the British passenger liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland. German officials correctly claimed that the ship was carrying ammunition and other contraband. -
The United States Declares War
The United States entered World War 1 and the conflict became a deadly, bloody, stalemate. -
Armistance
On 29 September 1918 the German Supreme Command informed Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Imperial Chancellor Count Georg von Hertling at army headquarters in Spa, Belgium, that the military situation facing Germany was hopeless. -
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson asked the League of Nations to secure mutual guarentees of political independence and territorial integrety to great and small states alike. -
18th Amendment Ratification
Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919, with the amendment taking effect on January 17, 1920. -
Congress approve the 19th Amendment
The nineteenth amendment stated that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex." On August 18, 1920 the Tennessee State House of Representatives passed the amendment by one vote. -
Neutrality
Neutrality, when practiced by nations, is not always neutral. It does not preclude involvement in international affairs, or even partisanship. According to international law, there are varying kinds of neutrality. For example, Switzerland adopted "differentiated" neutrality in 1920, a decision which indicated a willingness to employ economic sanctions to communicate disapprobation of another nation
