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Purchase of Alaska
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U.S. trade abroad increases
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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Plessy v. Ferguson/ Era of Jim Crow legalized segregation
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Age of U.S. imperialism begins/ Spanish-American War, territory gained/ Hawaii annexed
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Open Door Policy
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T.Roosevelt "Big Stick" Diplomacy
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McKinley is assassinated/ T.R. becomes president
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Teddy Roosevelt elected/ Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is established/ U.S. begins building the Panama Canal, with a 99 year lease
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T. Roosevelt's SQUARE DEAL/ Meat Inspection Act
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Gentlemen's Agreement
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William Howard Taft is elected President
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Great Migration of African Americans to the North
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16th and 17th Amendments added to Constitution/ Federal Reserve Act
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Clayton Antitrust Act- strengthens the Sherman Antitrust Act/ World War I erupts
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Germans sinking the Lusitania, American passengers die
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National Park Service created/ U.S. intervention in Mexico
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Zimmerman Note/ U.S. enters World War I, 4.8 million Americans served/ Selective Service Act
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World War I ends; Woodrow Wilson writes The Fourteen Points/ 51,000 American casualties/ Flu Pandemic 500 million people infected worldwide
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"Return to Normalcy"/ U.S. becomes isolationist, Rise of nativism
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18th Amendment: Prohibition/ U.S. senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles/ League of Nations formed, U.S does not join
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19th Amendment: Women's Suffrage
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Harlem Renaissance
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Emergency Quota Act- drastically reduced number of immigrants to U.S.
