USA ting Flashcards
Freedman’s Bureau
1865
Civil Rights Bill
1866
14th Amendment
1868
Alaska purchase
1867
Johnson impeachment
1868
Standard Oil created
1870
Compromise of …
1877
Pendleton Civil Service Act
1883 (all fed govt jobs should be awarded on merit)
Interstate Commerce Act
1887….to regulate the railroad industry
Pan-American Conference
1889
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1890
Spanish-American War
1898
Gold Standard Act
1900
Great Coal Stoke
1902
Hepburn Act
1906
Panics of ….
1873, 1893, 1907
NAACP
1909
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
1914
USA enter WW1
1917
Rockefeller…
Secured cheap transport, bought out companies, Standard Oil 1870, Controlled 85% of American oil
How many immigrants came during Gilded Age ?
10 million
Looking for American dream from GB / GER / IRE
How many non-Republican presidents in our period ? And who.
7
Johnson - Democratic Union Cleveland - Democrat Wilson - Democrat Franklin Roosevelt - Democrat Truman - Democrat Kennedy - Democrat Johnson - Democrat
List
Lincoln Johnson Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley Theodore Roosevelt Taft Wilson Harding Coolidge Hoover FDR Truman Eisenhower Kennedy Johnson Nixon Ford
In many Southern states, Radical Reconstruction was over before it began …..
Tennessee was under Democratic control as early as 1869
By 1876 only 3 Southern states were under Republican control
P v F?
1896 Plessy vs Ferguson case - allowed seg & emphasised that facilities must be separate but equal
Hawaii
1887 acquisition of Hawaii as a naval base
Interstate Highway System
1956 - Eisenhower - the singles largest public works programme in US history
(-> transport of materials/goods across USA, provided lots of jobs in the post-war period - helped ensure economic stability continued after war whilst war industries were closing etc.)
