Presidential Chronology- Harrison-Hoover Flashcards
National Farmer’s Alliance (1889)
Benjamin Harrison
Department of Agriculture
Benjamin Harrison
Oklahoma Territory opened for settlement (1889)
Benjamin Harrison
Brought in N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oklahoma.
Benjamin Harrison
Hull House (1889)
Benjamin Harrison
Billion Dollar Congress (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley Tariff [raised duties on manufactured goods] (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
United Mine Workers (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Wounded Knee (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Census declares frontier closed (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Alfred Thayer Mahan -
“Influence of Sea Power on History”
(1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Basketball invented at Springfield, Massachusetts (1891)
Benjamin Harrison
Homestead Steel Strike (1892)
Benjamin Harrison
Populist Party organized (1892)
Benjamin Harrison
Columnist Exposition in Chicago (1892)
Benjamin Harrison
Sierra Club, John Muir (1892)
Benjamin Harrison
Ellis Island opened (1892)
Benjamin Harrison
Fredrick Jackson Turner-
“Significance of Frontier in American History” (1893
Benjamin Harrison
Queen Lili overthrown (1893)
Grover Cleveland
Stephan Crane-
“Maggie: A Girl of the Streets”
(1893)
Grover Cleveland
Panic of 1893 (depression last until 1897)
Grover Cleveland
Black Friday
Grover Cleveland
Repeals Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1893)
Grover Cleveland
Drought (1894)
Grover Cleveland
Wilson-Gorman Tariff (1894)
Grover Cleveland
Coxey’s Army (1894)
Grover Cleveland
Pullman Strike (1894)
Grover Cleveland
United States v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
Grover Cleveland
Borrowed $62 million from J. P. Morgan (1895)
Grover Cleveland
Coney Island opened (1895)
Grover Cleveland
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Grover Cleveland
New Imperialism
William McKinley
Library of Congress opens (1897)
William McKinley
Teller Amendment (1898)
William McKinley
Charlotte Perkins Gilman-
“Women and Economics”
(1898)
William McKinley
Battleship Maine (1898)
William McKinley
Spanish-American War (1898)
William McKinley
Rough Riders (1898)
William McKinley
Acquisition of Hawaii (1898)
William McKinley
Philippines guerrilla warfare (1898-1902)
William McKinley
Thorstein Veblen-
“The Theory of the Leisure Class”
(1899)
William McKinley
Open Door Policy (1899)
William McKinley
Kate Chopin-
“The Awakening”
(1899)
William McKinley
Theodore Dreiser-
“Sister Carrie”
(1900)
William McKinley
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
William McKinley
Foraker Act [Puerto Rico] (1900)
William McKinley
Currency Act [places U. S. on gold standard] (1900)
William McKinley
Social Party (1900)
William McKinley
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
“Trust Buster”
Theodore Roosevelt
United States Forest Service/National Parks and Nature Preserves
Theodore Roosevelt
Modernized Army: Great White Fleet, Army College, etc.
Theodore Roosevelt
United States Steel, J. P. Morgan (1901)
Theodore Roosevelt
Platt Amendment (1901)
Theodore Roosevelt
Anthracite Coal Strike (1902)
Theodore Roosevelt
Philippine Government Act (1902)
Theodore Roosevelt
National Reclamation Act (1902)
Theodore Roosevelt
Newland Act [conservation movement] (1902)
Theodore Roosevelt
W. E. B. DuBois-
“The Souls of Black Folk”
(1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Big Stick Policy (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Department of Commerce and Labor (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Panama Canal Begins (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Wright Brothers first air flight (1903)
Theodore Roosevelt
Lincoln Steffens-
“The Shame of the Cities”
(1904)
Theodore Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell-
“History of the Standard Oil Company”
(1904)
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt Corollary and the Lodge Corollary added to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
Theodore Roosevelt
Treaty of Portsmouth- Concludes Russo-Japanese War (1905)
Theodore Roosevelt
Industrial Workers of the World [Wobblies] (1905)
Theodore Roosevelt
Industrial Workers of the World organized (1905)
Theodore Roosevelt
Niagara movement established- Leads to NAACP (1905)
Theodore Roosevelt
Receives Nobel Peace Prize
Theodore Roosevelt
Upton Sinclair-
“The Jungle”
(1906)
Theodore Roosevelt
Hepburn Act (1906)
Theodore Roosevelt
Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Theodore Roosevelt
Walter Raushenbusch-
“Christianity and the Social Crisis”
(1907)
Theodore Roosevelt
Great White Fleet’s world voyage (1907)
Theodore Roosevelt
Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907)
Theodore Roosevelt
Ford’s Model T introduced (1908)
Theodore Roosevelt
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Theodore Roosevelt
Dollar Diplomacy
William H. Taft
Mann-Elkins Act
William H. Taft
NAACP (1909)
William H. Taft
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
William H. Taft
Jane Addams-
“Twenty Years at the Hull House”
(1910)
William H. Taft
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy (1910)
William H. Taft
Angle Island opened (1910)
William H. Taft
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911)
William H. Taft
Dollar Diplomacy - Nicaragua (1912)
William H. Taft
Supreme Court orders dissolution of Standard Oil
William H. Taft
Standard Oil v. New Jersey (1911)
William H. Taft
Progressive (Bull Moose) Party (1912)
William H. Taft
Moral Diplomacy
Woodrow Wilson
New Freedom
Woodrow Wilson
16th Amendment - Income Tax (1913)
Woodrow Wilson
17th Amendment - Direct election of senators (1913)
Woodrow Wilson
Underwood Tariff [reduced tariff rates]
1913
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Reserve Banking Act (1913)
Woodrow Wilson
WWI (1914-1918)
Woodrow Wilson
Panama Canal opened (1914)
Woodrow Wilson
Moral Diplomacy- Veracruz, Mexico (1914)
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
Woodrow Wilson
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Woodrow Wilson
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated (1914)
Woodrow Wilson
Moral Diplomacy - Haiti (1915)
Woodrow Wilson
Moral Diplomacy- Dominican Republic (1915)
Woodrow Wilson
Lusitania sunk (1915)
Woodrow Wilson
Sussex Pledge (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
John Dewey-
“Democracy and Education”
(1916)
Woodrow Wilson
Moral Diplomacy - Mexico to find Pancho Villa (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
Margret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in New York City (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
Keating-Owen Act (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
Time Zones implemented through nation (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
National Defense Act (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)
Woodrow Wilson
U. S. troops withdraw from Mexico (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
Zimmerman Telegram (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
U. S. enters WWI (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
Selective Service Act (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
War Industries Board (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
Committee on Public Information (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
Food Administration (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
Espionage Act (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
Woodrow Wilson
World-wide influenza pandemic (1918)
Woodrow Wilson
Sedition Acts (1918)
Woodrow Wilson
Fourteen Points (1918)
Woodrow Wilson
Armistice (1918)
Woodrow Wilson
18th Amendment-Prohibition (1919)
Woodrow Wilson
Volstead Act (1919)
Woodrow Wilson
A. Mitchell Palmer raids/Red Scare (1919-1920)
Woodrow Wilson
19th Amendment- Women Suffrage (1920)
Woodrow Wilson
Treaty of Versailles with League of Nations (1919)
Woodrow Wilson
Schenck v. U. S. (1919)
Woodrow Wilson
Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles (1920)
Woodrow Wilson
American Civil Liberties Union established (1920)
Woodrow Wilson
U. S. v. United States Steel Co. (1920)
Woodrow Wilson
Sinclair Lewis-
“Main Street”
(1920)
Woodrow Wilson
Radio broadcasting begins (1920)
Woodrow Wilson
Normalcy
Warren G. Harding
Revenue Act (1921)
Warren G. Harding
Budget and Accounting Act (1921)
Warren G. Harding
Emergency Quota Act [quota system] (1921)
Warren G. Harding
Washington Naval Arms Conference (1921-22)
Warren G. Harding
Five Power Treaty, Four Power Treaty
Warren G. Harding
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act [higher tariffs] (1922)
Warren G. Harding
Sinclair Lewis-
“Babbitt”
(1922)
Warren G. Harding
Charles Forbes and the V. A. Scandal (1923)
Warren G. Harding
Teapot Dome Scandal (1923)
Warren G. Harding
Domestic policy- Laisse-fair or non-intervention
Calvin Coolidge
National Origins Act (1923)
Calvin Coolidge
Immigration Act (1924)
Calvin Coolidge
Scopes Trial (1925)
Calvin Coolidge
Florida real estate boom (1925)
Calvin Coolidge
F. Scott Fitzgerald-
“The Great Gatsby”
(1925)
Calvin Coolidge
Theodore Dreiser-
“An American Tragedy”
(1925)
Calvin Coolidge
Created the Federal Radio Commission (1926)
Calvin Coolidge
U. S. troops in Nicaragua (1926)
Calvin Coolidge
Charles A. Lindbergh begins epic flight (1927)
Calvin Coolidge
Sacco and Vanzetti were executed (1927)
Calvin Coolidge
“The Jazz Singer” (1927)
Calvin Coolidge
Ford’s Model A introduced (1927)
Calvin Coolidge
Vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm bill (1927)
Calvin Coolidge
Kellogg Briand Pact (1928)
Calvin Coolidge
Stock Market Crash (1929)
Herbert Hoover
William Faulkner-
“The Sound and the Fury”
(1929)
Herbert Hoover
Ernest Hemingway-
“A Farewell to Arms”
(1929)
Herbert Hoover
Depression
Herbert Hoover
Hoovervilles
Herbert Hoover
Federal Farm Board (1929
Herbert Hoover
Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
Herbert Hoover
Debt Moratorium
Herbert Hoover
Emergency Committee for Employment (1931)
Herbert Hoover
Vetoed Muscle Shoals Bill (1931)
Herbert Hoover
Scottsboro Case (1931)
Herbert Hoover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
Herbert Hoover
Bonus Marchers (1932)
Herbert Hoover