Period VII Timeline Flashcards

1
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1893

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Panic of 1893

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2
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1898

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Spanish-American War

United States Annexation of Hawaii

US gains Philippines, Guam and Puerto Rico

Formation of the American Anti-Imperialist League

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3
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1899-1900

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Open Door policy in China

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4
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1899-1902

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Philippine-American War

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5
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1901

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President McKinley assassinated

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6
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1903

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Panama Canal

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

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7
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1904

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National Child Labour Committee Formed

Election of Teddy Roosevelt

Roosevelt Corrolary

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8
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1905-1930

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The Great Migration

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9
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1905

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Founding of the Niagara Movement

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10
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1906

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Publication of the Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

Meat Inspection Act

Pure Food and Drug Act

Hepburn Act

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11
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1908

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Election of William Howard Taft

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12
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1909

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National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

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13
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1910

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Mann Act

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14
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1911

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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15
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1912

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Election of Woodrow Wilson

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16
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1913

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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

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17
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1914

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Federal Reserve Act

Federal Trade Commission

Clayton Antitrust Act

Beginning of WWI

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18
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1914-17

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United States intervention in Mexico

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19
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1915

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Sinking of the Lucitania

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20
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1916

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Reelection of Woodrow Wilson

21
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1917

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Harlem Renaissance begins

US enters WWI

Espionage Act

Zimmerman Telegram

22
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1918

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Sedition Act

Armistice ends WWI

Wilson’s 14 Points

23
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1918-1919

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Influenza epidemic

24
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1919-1920

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Little Red Scare

Boston Police Strike

25
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1919

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18th Amendment (prohibition) ratified

Treaty of Versailles

26
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1920

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19th Amendment (women’s right to vote) ratified

Schenk v. US

Seattle General Strike

Height of the “Palmer Raids”

Election of Warren G. Harding

27
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1921

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Emergency Quote Act

Beginning of Teapot Dome Scandal

Sacco and Venzetti

28
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1924

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National Origins Act

Election of Calvin Coolidge

29
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1925

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Scopes Trial

30
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1927

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Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

31
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1928

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Kellog-Briand Pact

Election of Herbert Hoover

32
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1929

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Stock market crash

The Great Depression begins

33
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1930

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3.2 million unemployed

34
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1931-1940

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Dust Bowl and westward migratoin

35
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1932

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Bonus Army

Reconstruction Finance Corporation established

Election of FDR

36
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1933

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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)

37
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1934

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Share Our Wealth clubs started by Huey Long

Securities and Exchange Comission

38
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1935

A

National Labour Relations Act (Wagner Act)

Social Security Act

Schechter decision strikes down NIRA

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

First Neutrality Act

39
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1936

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Butler decision strikes down AAA

Roosevelt’s ‘court packing’ plan

Roosevelt elected to a second term

40
Q

1936-39

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Spanish civil War

41
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1937

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“Roosevelt Recession”

Farm Security Administration (FSA)

Panay incident

Quarantine Speech

42
Q

1939

A

Cash-and-Carry Policy

Nazi-Soviet Pact

43
Q

1940

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Selective Serve Act (first peacetime draft)

Tripartite Pact

Roosevelt elected to unprecedented 3rd term

44
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1941

A

Lend-lease Act

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

US enters WWII

45
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1942

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Battle of Midway

46
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1943

A

Tehran Conference

47
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1944

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D-day – allied invasion of Normandy

Korematsu v. US

Bretton Woods Conference

48
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1945

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Yalta Conference

Potsdam Conference

German surrender

Dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Japanese surrender