25-32 Flashcards
(244 cards)
1
Q
on the origin of species published
A
1859
2
Q
morill act provides public land for higher education
A
1862
3
Q
world’s 1st subway system opens in london
A
1863
4
Q
am society for prevention of cruelty to animals (aspca) created
A
1866
5
Q
wyoming territory grants women right to vote
A
1869
6
Q
woodhull and clafin’s weekly published
A
1871
7
Q
metaphysical club meets in cambridge, ma
A
1872
8
Q
comstock law
A
1873
9
Q
woman’s christian temperance union (wctu) organized
A
1874
10
Q
chautauqua education movement launched
A
1874
11
Q
impressionist artists debut in paris
A
1874
12
Q
john hopkins university graduate school est
A
1876
13
Q
henry george publishes progress and poverty
A
1879
14
Q
dumbbell tenement introduced
A
1879
15
Q
mary baker eddy est christian science
A
1879
16
Q
salvation army begins work in am
A
1879
17
Q
booker t washington becomes head of tuskegee institute
A
1881
18
Q
am red cross founded
A
1881
19
Q
barnum and bailey first join to state “greatest show on earth”
A
1881
20
Q
1st immigration restriction laws passed
A
1882
21
Q
brooklyn bridge completed
A
1883
22
Q
metropolitan opera house built in ny
A
1883
23
Q
mark twain publishes the adventures of huck finn
A
1884
24
Q
louis sullivan builds 1st skyscraper in chicago
A
1885
25
linotype invented
1885
26
statue of liberty erected in ny harbor
1886
27
am protective association (apa) formed
1887
28
hatch act supplements morrill act
1887
29
edward bellamy publishes looking backward
1888
30
jane adams founds hull house in chicago
1889
31
national am women suffrage association (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
library of congress opens
1897
38
charlotte perkins gilman published women and economics
1898
39
kate choplin publishes the awakening
1899
40
theodore dresier publishes sister carrie
1900
41
henry adams privately publishes the education of henry adams
1907
42
naacp 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 of 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
fed gov outlaws indian sun dance
1884
55
canadian pacific railway, 1st transcontinental rail line, completed across canada
1885
56
local chapters of farmers' alliance formed
1885-1890
57
dawes severality act
1887
58
oklahoma opened to us citizen settlement
1889
59
nd, sd, montana, washington, idaho, 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
frederick jackson turner publishes "the significance of the frontier in am history"
1893
65
coxey's army marches on washington
1894
66
pullman strike
1894
67
utah admitted to union
1896
68
dingley tariff act
1897
69
gold standard act
1900
70
oklahoma admitted to union
1907
71
indians granted us citizenship
1924
72
indian reorganization act
1934
73
ne missionaries arrive in haiwii
1820
74
samoa crisis with gern
1889
75
pan am conference
1889
76
the influence of sea power upon history published
1890
77
new orleans crisis with italy
1891
78
valparaiso crisis with chile
1892
79
pribilof islands dispute with canada
1893
80
white planter revolt in hawaii
1893
81
cleveland refuses hawaii annexation
1893
82
cubans revolt against spain
1895
83
venezuela boundary crisis with brit
1895-1896
84
maine explosion in havana harbor
1898
85
span am war
1898
86
teller amendment
1898
87
dewey's victory at manila bay
1898
88
hawaii annexed
1898
89
senate ratifies treaty acquiring philippines
1899
90
aguinaldo launches rebellion against us in philippines
1899
91
first am open door note
1899
92
hawaii receives full territorial status
1900
93
foraker act for puerto rico
1900
94
boxer rebellion and us military expedition to china
1900
95
2nd open door note
1900
96
supreme court insular cases
1901
97
platt amendment
1901
98
mckinley assassinated
1901
99
filipino rebellion supressed
1901
100
hay-pauncefote treaty with brit gives us exclusive right to build panama canal
1901
101
us troops leave cuba
1902
102
columbian senate rejects us proposal for canal across panama
1902
103
panamanian revolution against columbia
1903
104
hay bunau varilla treaty
1903
105
roosevelt collary
1904
106
construction of panama canal
1904-1914
107
us takes over dominican republic customs service
1905
108
roosevelt mediates russo japanese peace treaty
1905
109
san fran japanese education crisis
1906
110
roosevelt arranges algecircas conference
1906
111
us marines occupy cuba
1906-1909
112
great white fleet makes world voyage
1907
113
gentlemen's agreement with japan
1907-1908
114
root-takahira agreement
1908
115
puerto ricans granted us citizenship
1917
116
sierra club founded
1892
117
national consumers league founded
1899
118
commission system est in galveston tx
1901
119
robert la follette elected gov of wisconsin
1901
120
am socialist party founded
1901
121
lincoln steffens and ida tarbell publish muckraking exposes
1902
122
anthracite coal strike
1902
123
newlands act
1902
124
department of commerce and labor est
1903
125
elkins act
1903
126
women's trade union formed
1903
127
northern securities case
1904
128
lochner vs ny
1905
129
hepburn act
1906
130
the jungle published
1906
131
meat inspection act
1906
132
pure food and drug act
1906
133
"roosevelt panic"
1907
134
muller vs oregon
1908
135
aldrich-vreeland act
1908
136
payne-aldrich tariff
1909
137
ballinger-pinchot affair
1910
138
washington state grants woman suffrage
1910
139
triangle shirtwaist company fire
1911
140
standard oil antitrust case
1911
141
us steel corporation anti trust suit
1911
142
ca grants woman suffrage
1911
143
az, kansas, and oregon greant woman suffrage
1912
144
children's bureau est in department of labor
1912
145
17th amendment passed
1913
146
fed reserve act
1913
147
san fran decides to build hetch hetchy reservoir
1913
148
women's bureau est in department of labor
1920
149
underwood tariff act
1913
150
16th amendment
1913
151
fed reserve act
1913
152
huerta takes power in mex
1913
153
clayton anti trust act
1914
154
fed trade commission est
1914
155
us seizes port of veracruz, mex
1914
156
wwi begins in europe
1914
157
la follette seaman's act
1915
158
lusitania torpedoes and sunk by germ uboat
1915
159
us marines sent to haiti
1915
160
germ declares submarine war area around brit isles
1915
161
sussex ultimatum and pledge
1916
162
us exports to euro belligerents skyrocket
1916
163
workingmen's compensation act
1916
164
fed farm loan act
1916
165
warehouse act
1916
166
adamson act
1916
167
pancho villa raids nm
1916
168
brandeis appointed to supreme court
1916
169
jones act
1916
170
us marines sent to dominican repub
1916
171
us buys virgin islands from denmark
1916
172
council of national defense est
1915
173
germ resumes unrestricted submarine warfare
1917
174
zimmerman note
1917
175
railroads placed under fed control
1917
176
us enters wwi
1917
177
espionage act
1917
178
wilson calls for "peace without victory"
1917
179
bolshevik revolution
1917
180
wilson proposes 14 points
1918
181
battle of chateau thierry
1918
182
2nd battle of the marne
1918
183
meuse-argonne offensive
1918
184
armistice ends wwi
1918-1919
185
worldwide influenza pandemic
1918-1919
186
paris peace conference and treaty of versailles
1919
187
wilson's pro league tour and collapse
1919
188
18th amendment passed
1919
189
1st senate defeat of versailles treaty
1919
190
final senate defeat of versailles treaty after reconsideration
1920
191
19th amendment
1920
192
wright bros fly 1st airplane
1903
193
1st story sequence motion pic
1903
194
henry ford introduces model t
1908
195
volstead act
1919
196
seattle general strike
1919
197
winesburg, ohio published
1919
198
red scare
1919-1920
199
radio broadcasting begins
1920
200
this side of paradise published
1920
201
main street published
1920
202
sacco-vanzetti trial
1921
203
emergency quotta act
1921
204
bureau of the budget created
1921
205
babbitt published
1922
206
the waste land published
1922
207
equal rights amendment (era) proposed
1923
208
immigration act
1924
209
scopes trial
1925
210
florida real estate boom
1925
211
the great gatsby published
1925
212
an am tragedy published
1925
213
the weary blues published
1926
214
the sun also rises published
1926
215
lindbergh flies solo across atlantic
1927
216
the jazz singer
1927
217
sacco and venzetti executed
1927
218
the sound and the fury published
1929
219
a farewell to arms published
1929
220
al capone imprisoned
1932
221
am legion founded
1919
222
chicago race riot
1919
223
esch cummins transportation act
1920
224
merchant marine act
1920
225
veterans bureau created
1921
226
capper volstead act
1921
227
five power naval treaty signed
1922
228
4 power and 9 power treaties on far east
1922
229
fordney mccumber tariff law
1922
230
adkins vs children's hospital
1923
231
teapot dome scandal
1923
232
adjusted compensation act
1924
233
dawes plan
1924
234
us troops leave dominican repub
1924
235
us troops occupy nicaragua
1926
236
kellogg briand pact
1928
237
hoover makes goodwill tour of latin am
1928
238
agricultural marketing act sets up fed farm board
1929
239
stock market crash
1929
240
hawley smoot tariff
1930
241
japanses invade manchuria
1931
242
reconstruction finance corporation (rfc) est
1932
243
norris la guardia anti junction act
1932
244
bonus army dispersed from washington dc
1932
