Ch. 25-32 Flashcards
0
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Morrill Act provides public land for higher education
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1862
1
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species
A
1859
2
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World’s first subway system opens in London
A
1863
3
Q
ASPCA created
A
1866
4
Q
Wyoming Territory grants women right to vote
A
1869
5
Q
Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly published
A
1871
6
Q
Metaphysical Club meets in Cambridge, Massachusetts
A
1872
7
Q
Comstock Law
A
1873
8
Q
WCTU organized
A
1874
9
Q
Chautauqua education movement launched
A
1874
10
Q
Impressionist artists debut in Paris
A
1874
11
Q
Johns Hopkins university’s graduate school established
A
1876
12
Q
Henry George publishes Progress and Poverty
A
1879
13
Q
Dumbbell tenement introduced
A
1879
14
Q
Mary Baker Eddy establishes Christian Science
A
1879
15
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Salvation Army begins work in America
A
1879
16
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Booker T. Washington becomes head of Tuskegee Institute
A
1881
17
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American Red Cross founded
A
1881
18
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Barnum and Bailey first join to stage “Greatest Show on Earth”
A
1881
19
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First immigration-restriction laws passed
A
1882
20
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Brooklyn Bridge completed
A
1883
21
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Met Opera House built in New York
A
1883
22
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Mark Twink publishes The Adventures of Fuckleberry Finn
A
1884
23
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Louis Sullivan builds first skyscraper in Chicago
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1885
24
Linotype invented
1885
25
Statue of Liberty built
1886
26
APA formed
1887
27
Hatch Act supplements Morrill Act
1887
28
Edward Bellamy publishes Looking backward
1888
29
American All-star baseball team tours world
1888
30
Jane Addams founds Hull House in Chicago
1889
31
NAWSA formed
1890
32
Basketball invented
1891
33
Lillian Wald opens Henry Street Settlement in NY
1893
34
Anti-Saloon League formed
1893
35
World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago
1893
36
New Zealand grants women right to vote
1893
37
Liberty of Congress opens
1897
38
Charlotte Perkins Gilman publishes Women and Economics
1898
39
Kate Chopin publishes The Awakening
1899
40
Theodore Dreiser publishes Sister Carrie
1900
41
Henry Adams privately publishes The Education of Henry Adams
1907
42
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people founded
1910
43
New Indian peoples move onto Great Plains
ca. 1700-1800
44
Pikes Peak gold rush
1858
45
Nevada Comstock Lode discovered
1859
46
Homestead Act
1862
47
Sand Creek massacre
1864
48
Nevada admitted to union
1864
49
National Grange organized
1867
50
Battle or the Little Bighorn
1876
51
Colorado admitted to Union
1876
52
Nez Perce war
1877
53
Helen Hunt Jackson publishes A Century of Dishonor
1881
54
Federal government outlaws Indian Sun Dance
1884
55
Canadian Pacific Railway, first transcontinental rail line, completed across Canada
1885
56
Local chapters of Farmer's Alliance formed
1885-1890
57
Dawes Severalty Act
1887
58
Oklahoma opened to US citizen settlement
1889
59
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming admitted to Union
1889-1890
60
Census Bureau declares frontier line ended
1890
61
Emergence of People's Party (Populists)
1890
62
Battle of Wounded Knee
1891
63
Construction of Trans-Siberian Railroad begins
1891
64
Populist party candidate James B. Weaver polls more than 1 million votes in presidential election
1892
65
Frederick Jackson Turner publishes "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"
1893
66
"Coxey's Army" marches on Washington
1894
67
Pullman strike
1894
68
Utah admitted to Union
1896
69
McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency
1896
70
Dingley Tariff Act
1897
71
Gold Standard Act
1900
72
Gold Standard Act
1900
73
Oklahoma admitted to Union
1907
74
Indians granted US citizenship
1924
75
Indian Reorganization Act
1934
76
New England missionaries arrive in Hawaii
1820
77
Samoa crisis with Germany
1889
78
Pan-American Conference
1889
79
Mahan publishes The Influence of Sea Power upon History
1890
80
New Orleans crisis with Italy
1891
81
Valparaiso crisis with Chile
1892
82
Prilbilof Islands dispute with Canada
1893
83
White planter revolt in Hawaii
1893
84
Cleveland refuses Hawaii annexation
1893
85
Cubans revolt against Spain
1895
86
Venezuelan boundary crisis with Britain
1895-1896
87
Maine explosion in Havana harbor
1898
88
Spanish-American War
1898
89
Teller Amendment
1898
90
Dewey's victory at Manila Bay
1898
91
Hawaii annexed
1898
92
Senate ratified treaty acquiring Philippines
1899
93
Aguinaldo launches rebellion against United States in Philippines
1899
94
First American Open Door note
1899
95
Hawaii receives full territorial status
1900
96
Foraker Act for Puerto Rico
1900
97
Boxer Rebellion and US military expedition to China
1900
98
Second Open Door note
1900
99
McKinley defeats Bryan for presidency
1900
100
Supreme Court Insular Cases
1901
101
Platt Amendment
1901
102
McKinley assassinated; Roosevelt becomes president
1901
103
Filipino rebellion suppressed
1901
104
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty with Britain gives United States exclusive right to build Panama Canal
1901
105
US troops leave Cuba
1902
106
Colombian senate rejects US proposal for canal across Panama
1902
107
Panamanian revolution against Columbia
1903
108
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives United States control of a Canal Zone in newly independent Panama
1903
109
Roosevelt Corollary to Monroe Doctrine
1904
110
Construction or Panama Canal
1904-1914
111
United States takes over Dominican Republic customs service
1905
112
Roosevelt mediated Russo-Japanese peace treaty
1905
113
San Francisco Japanese education crisis
1906
114
Roosevelt arranges Algeciras Conference
1906
115
US marines occupy Cuba
1906-1909
116
Great White Fleet makes world voyage
1907
117
"Gentlemen's Agreement" with Japan
1907-1908
118
Root-Takahira Agreement
1908
119
Puerto Ricans granted US citizenship
1917
120
Sierra Club founded
1892
121
National Consumers League founded
1899
122
Commission system established in Galveston, Texas
1901
123
Progressive Robert La Follette elected governor of Wisconsin
1901
124
American Socialist party formed
1901
125
Lincoln Steffens and Aida Tarbell publish muckraking exposes
1902
126
Anthracite coal strike
1902
127
Newlands Act
1902
128
Department of Commerce and labor established
1903
129
Elkins Act
1903
130
Women's Trade Union League founded
1903
131
Northern Securities case
1904
132
Roosevelt defeats Alton B. Parker for presidency
1904
133
Lochner v. New York
1905
134
Hepburn Act
1906
135
Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle
1906
136
Meat Inspection Act
1906
137
Pure Food and Drug Act
1906
138
Roosevelt Panic
1907
139
Muller v. Oregon
1908
140
Taft defeats Bryan for presidency
1908
141
Aldrich-Vreeland Act
1908
142
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
1909
143
Ballinger-Pinchot affair
1910
144
Washington State grants woman suffrage
1910
145
Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
1911
146
Standard Oil anti trust case
1911
147
US Steel corporation antitrust suit
1911
148
California grants woman suffrage
1911
149
Taft wins Republican nomination over Roosevelt
1912
150
Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon grant woman suffrage
1912
151
Children's Bureau established in Department of Labor
1912
152
17th amendment passed (direct election of US Senators)
1913
153
Federal Reserve Act
1913
154
San Francisco decides to build Hetch Hetchy Reservior
1913
155
Women's Bureau established in Department of Labor
1920
156
Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt for presidency
1912
157
Underwood Tariff Act
1913
158
16th amendment (income tax)
1913
159
Huerta takes power in Mexico
1913
160
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
1914
161
Federal Trade commission established
1914
162
US seizes port of Veracruz, Mexico
1914
163
World War 1 begins in Europe
1914
164
La Follette Seaman's Act
1915
165
Lusitania torpedoed and sunk by German u-boat
1915
166
US marines sent to Haiti
1915
167
Germany declares submarine war around British Isles
1915
168
Sussex ultimatum and pledge
1916
169
US exports to European belligerents skyrocket
1916
170
Workingmen's Compensation Act
1916
171
Federal Farm loan act
1916
172
Warehouse Act
1916
173
Adamson Act
1916
174
Pancho Villa raids New Mexico
1916
175
Brandeis appointed to Supreme Court
1916
176
Jones Act
1916
177
US Marines sent to Dominican Republic
1916
178
Wilson defeats Hughes for presidency
1916
179
United States buys Virgin Islands from Denmark
1917
180
Council of National Defense established
1915
181
Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
1917
182
Zimmermann note
1917
183
Railroads placed under federal control
1917
184
United States enters WWI
1917
185
Espionage Act of 1917
186
Wilson calls for "peace without victory"
1917
187
Bolshevik Revolution
1917
188
Wilson proposes 14 points
1918
189
Sedition Act of 1918
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190
Battle of Château-Thierry
1918
191
Second Battle of the Marne
1918
192
Meuse-Argonne offensive
1918
193
Armistice ends WWI
1918-1919
194
Worldwide influenza pandemic
1918-1919
195
Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles
1919
196
Wilson's pro-League tour and collapse
1919
197
18th amendment (prohibition)
1919
198
First Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty
1919
199
Final Senate defeat of Versailles Treaty after reconsideration
1920
200
19th amendment (woman suffrage)
1920
201
Harding defeats Cox for presidency
1920
202
Wright Brothers fly first airplane
1903
203
First story sequence motion picture
1903
204
Henry Ford introduces Model T
1908
205
Volsted Act
1919
206
Seattle General strike
1919
207
Anderson publishes Winesburg, Ohio
1919
208
Red Scare
1919-1920
209
Radio broadcasting begins
1920
210
Fitzgerald publishes The Side of Paradise
1920
211
Lewis publishes Main Street
1920
212
Sacco-Vanzetti trial
1921
213
Emergency Quota Act
1921
214
Bureau of the Budget created
1921
215
Lewis publishes Babbitt
1922
216
Eliot publishes "The Waste Land"
1922
217
Equal Rights Amendment proposed
1923
218
Immigration Act of 1924
219
Scopes Trial
1925
220
Florida Real Estate boom
1925
221
Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby
1925
222
Dreiser publishes An American Tragedy
1925
223
Hughes publishes The Weary Blues
1926
224
Hemingway publishes The Sun Also rises
1926
225
Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic
1927
226
First talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer
1927
227
Sacco and Vanzetti executed
1927
228
Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury
1929
229
Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms
1929
230
Al Capone improsoned
1932
231
American Legion founded
1919
232
Chicago race riot
1919
233
Esch-Cummins Transportation act
1920
234
Merchant Marine act
1920
235
Veterans Bureau created
1921
236
Capper-Volstead Act
1921
237
5 power naval treaty signed
1922
238
4 and 9 power treaties on the Far East
1922
239
Fordney-McCumber Tariff law
1922
240
Adkins v. Children's hospital
1923
241
Teapot Dome Scandal
1923
242
Harding dies; Coolidge assumes presidency
1923
243
Adjusted Compensation Act for veterans
1924
244
Dawes Plan for international finance
1924
245
US troops leave Dominican Republic
1924
246
Coolidge wins 3 way presidential election
1924
247
US troops occupy Nicaragua
1926
248
Kellogg-Briand Pact
1928
249
Hoover defeats Smith for presidency
1928
250
Hoover makes goodwill tour of Latin America
1928
251
Agricultural Marketing Act sets up Federal Farm Board
1929
252
Stock Market crash
1929
253
Hawley-Smoot tariff
1930
254
Japanese invade Manchuria
1931
255
Reconstruction Finance Corporation established
1932
256
Norris-La Guardia Anri-Injunction Act
1932
257
Bonus Army dispersed from Washington DC
1932
