Period VII Timeline Flashcards
1893
Panic of 1893
1898
Spanish-American War
United States Annexation of Hawaii
US gains Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico
Formation of the American Anti-Imperialist League
1899-1900
Open Door policy in China
1899-1902
Philippine-American War
1901
President McKinley assassinated
1903
Panama Canal
W.E.B duBois writes The Souls of Black Folk
1904
National Child Labour Committee Formed
Election of Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corrolary
1905-1930
The Great Migration
1905
Founding of the Niagara Movement
1906
Publication of the Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Pure Food and Drug Act
Hepburn Act
1908
Election of William Howard Taft
1909
National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
1910
Mann Act
1911
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1912
Election of Woodrow Wilson
1913
16th Amendment (federal income tax) ratified
17th Amendment (direct election of senators) ratified
Henry Ford introduces conveyor belt to automobile production
Suffrage Parade in Washington D.C
1914
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Antitrust Act
Beginning of WWI
1914-17
United States intervention in Mexico
1915
Sinking of the Lucitania