Period VII Timeline

Question 1

1893

Answer 1

Panic of 1893

Question 2

1898

Answer 2

Spanish-American War

United States Annexation of Hawaii

US gains Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico

Formation of the American Anti-Imperialist League

Question 3

1899-1900

Answer 3

Open Door policy in China

Question 4

1899-1902

Answer 4

Philippine-American War

Question 5

1901

Answer 5

President McKinley assassinated

Question 6

1903

Answer 6

Panama Canal

W.E.B duBois writes The Souls of Black Folk

Question 7

1904

Answer 7

National Child Labour Committee Formed

Election of Teddy Roosevelt

Roosevelt Corrolary

Question 8

1905-1930

Answer 8

The Great Migration

Question 9

1905

Answer 9

Founding of the Niagara Movement

Question 10

1906

Answer 10

Publication of the Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Hepburn Act

Question 11

1908

Answer 11

Election of William Howard Taft

Question 12

1909

Answer 12

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

Question 13

1910

Answer 13

Mann Act

Question 14

1911

Answer 14

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Question 15

1912

Answer 15

Election of Woodrow Wilson

Question 16

1913

Answer 16

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

Question 17

1914

Answer 17

Federal Reserve Act

Federal Trade Commission

Clayton Antitrust Act

Beginning of WWI

Question 18

1914-17

Answer 18

United States intervention in Mexico

Question 19

1915

Answer 19

Sinking of the Lucitania

Question 20

1916

Answer 20

Reelection of Woodrow Wilson

Question 21

1917

Answer 21

Harlem Renaissance begins

US enters WWI

Espionage Act

Zimmerman Telegram

Question 22

1918

Answer 22

Sedition Act

Armistice ends WWI

Wilson’s 14 Points

Question 23

1918-1919

Answer 23

Influenza epidemic

Question 24

1919-1920

Answer 24

Little Red Scare

Boston Police Strike

Question 25

1919

Answer 25

18th Amendment (prohibition) ratified Treaty of Versailles

Question 26

1920

Answer 26

19th Amendment (women's right to vote) ratified Schenk v. US Seattle General Strike Height of the "Palmer Raids" Election of Warren G. Harding

Question 27

1921

Answer 27

Emergency Quote Act Beginning of Teapot Dome Scandal Sacco and Venzetti

Question 28

1924

Answer 28

National Origins Act Election of Calvin Coolidge

Question 29

1925

Answer 29

Scopes Trial

Question 30

1927

Answer 30

Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 31

1928

Answer 31

Kellog-Briand Pact Election of Herbert Hoover

Question 32

1929

Answer 32

Stock market crash The Great Depression begins

Question 33

1930

Answer 33

3.2 million unemployed

Question 34

1931-1940

Answer 34

Dust Bowl and westward migratoin

Question 35

1932

Answer 35

Bonus Army Reconstruction Finance Corporation established Election of FDR

Question 36

1933

Answer 36

The 100 days Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) Glass-Steagall Act (Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation established) National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Ratification of 21st Amendment (repeal of prohibition)

Question 37

1934

Answer 37

Share Our Wealth clubs started by Huey Long Securities and Exchange Comission

Question 38

1935

Answer 38

National Labour Relations Act (Wagner Act) Social Security Act Schechter decision strikes down NIRA Works Progress Administration (WPA) First Neutrality Act

Question 39

1936

Answer 39

Butler decision strikes down AAA Roosevelt's 'court packing' plan Roosevelt elected to a second term

Question 40

1936-39

Answer 40

Spanish civil War

Question 41

1937

Answer 41

"Roosevelt Recession" Farm Security Administration (FSA) Panay incident Quarantine Speech

Question 42

1939

Answer 42

Cash-and-Carry Policy Nazi-Soviet Pact

Question 43

1940

Answer 43

Selective Serve Act (first peacetime draft) Tripartite Pact Roosevelt elected to unprecedented 3rd term

Question 44

1941

Answer 44

Lend-lease Act Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour US enters WWII

Question 45

1942

Answer 45

Battle of Midway

Question 46

1943

Answer 46

Tehran Conference

Question 47

1944

Answer 47

D-day – allied invasion of Normandy Korematsu v. US Bretton Woods Conference

Question 48

1945

Answer 48

Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference German surrender Dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japanese surrender