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| President | Event |
|---|---|
| Benjamin Harrison | Department of Agriculture |
| Benjamin Harrison | National Farmer's Alliance |
| Benjamin Harrison | Oklahoma Territory opened for settlement |
| Benjamin Harrison | Brought in N. Dakota, S. Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Oklahoma |
| Benjamin Harrison | Hull House |
| Benjamin Harrison | Billion Dollar Congress |
| Benjamin Harrison | McKinley Tariff |
| Benjamin Harrison | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| Benjamin Harrison | United Mine Workers |
| Benjamin Harrison | Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| Benjamin Harrison | wounded Knee |
| Benjamin Harrison | Census declares fronteir closed |
| Benjamin Harrison | Alfred Thayer Mahan- Influence of Sea power on history |
| Benjamin Harrison | Basketball invented at Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Benjamin Harrsion | Homestead Steel Strike |
| Benjamin Harrison | Populist Party organized |
| Benjamin Harrison | Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| Benjamin Harrison | Sierra Club, John Muir |
| Benjamin Harrison | Ellis Island opened |
| Benjamin Harrison | Fredrick Jackson Turner - "significance of the frontier in American history" |
| Grover Cleveland | Queen Lili overthrown |
| Grover Cleveland | Stephan Crane "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" |
| Grover Cleveland | Panic of 1893 [Depression lasts until 1897] |
| Grover Cleveland | Black Friday |
| Grover Cleveland | Repeals Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| Grover Cleveland | Drought |
| Grover Cleveland | Wilson-Gorman Tariff |
| Grover Cleveland | Coxey's Army |
| Grover Cleveland | Pullman Strike |
| Grover Cleveland | United States v E.C. Knight Co. |
| Grover Cleveland | Borrowed $62 million from J.P. Morgan |
| Grover Cleveland | Coney Island opened |
| Grover Cleveland | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| William McKinley | New Imperialism |
| William McKinley | Library of Congress opens |
| William McKinley | Teller amendment |
| William McKinley | Charlotte Perkins Gilman "Women in Economics |
| William McKinley | Battleship Maine |
| William McKinley | Spanish-American War |
| William McKinley | Rough Riders |
| William McKinley | Acquisition of Hawaii |
| William McKinley | Philippines guerrilla warfare |
| William McKinley | Thorstein Veblen "The Theory of the Leisure Class" |
| William McKinley | Boxer Rebellion |
| William McKinley | Foraker Act [Puerto Rico] |
| William McKinley | Currency Act [Places U.S. on gold standard] |
| William McKinley | Social Party |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 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 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Platt Amendment |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Anthracite Coal Strike |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Philippine Government Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt | National Reclamation Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Newland Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt | W.E.B. DuBois "The Souls of Black Folk" |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Big Stick Policy |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Department of Commerce and Labor |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Panama Canal begins |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Wright Brothers first air flight |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Lincoln Steffens "The Shame of Citites" |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Ida Tarbell "History of the Standard oil Company" |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Roosevelt Corollary and Lodge Corollary added to the Monroe Doctrine |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Treaty of Portsmouth- concludes Russo-Japanese war |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Industrial Workers of the World |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Industrial Workers of the World organized |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Niagara movement Established- Leads to NAACP |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Receives Nobel Peace Prize |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Hepburn Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Walter Raushenbusch "Christianity and the Social Crisis" |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Great White Fleet's World voyage |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Gentlemen's Agreement |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Ford's Model T introduced |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Muller v. Oregon |
| William H. Taft | Dollar Diplomacy |
| William H. Taft | Mann-Elkins ACt |
| William H. Taft | NAACP |
| William H. Taft | Payne-Aldrich Tariff |
| William H. Taft | Jane Addams "Twenty Years at Hull House |
| William H. Taft | Ballinger-Pinchot controversy |
| William H. Taft | Angel Island opened |
| William H. Taft | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
| William H. Taft | Dollar Diplomacy - nigaragua |
| William H. Taft | Supreme court orders dissolution of Standard Oil |
| William H. Taft | Standard Oil v. Jersey |
| William H. Taft | Progressive Party |
| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy |
| Woodrow Wilson | New Freedom |
| Woodrow Wilson | 16th Amendment |
| Woodrow Wilson | 17th Amendment |
| Woodrow Wilson | Underwood Tariff |
| Woodrow Wilson | Federal Reserve Banking Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | WW1 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Panama Canal opened |
| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy - Vercruz, Mexico |
| Woodrow Wilson | Federal Trade Commission Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | Clayton Antitrust ACt |
| Woodrow Wilson | Archduke Franz Ferdinand assasssinated |
| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy - Haiti |
| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy - Dominican Republic |
| Woodrow Wilson | Lusitania sunk |
| Woodrow Wilson | Sussex Pledge |
| Woodrow Wilson | John Dewey Democracy and Education |
| Woodrow Wilson | Moral Diplomacy- Mexico to find Pancho Villa |
| Woodrow Wilson | Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in NYC |
| Woodrow Wilson | Keating-Owen Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | Time Zones implemented through nation |
| Woodrow Wilson | National Defense Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | Federal Farm Loan Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | US troops withdraw from Mexico |
| Woodrow Wilson | Zimmerman Telegraph |
| Woodrow Wilson | US enters WW1 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Selective Service Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | War Industries Board |
| Woodrow Wilson | Committee on Public Information |
| Woodrow Wilson | Food Administration |
| Woodrow Wilson | Espionage Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | Bolshevik Revolution |
| Woodrow Wilson | World Wide influenza pandemic |
| Woodrow Wilson | Sedition Acts |
| Woodrow Wilson | Fourteen Points |
| Woodrow Wilson | Armistice |
| Woodrow Wilson | 18th Amendment |
| Woodrow Wilson | Volstead Act |
| Woodrow Wilson | A. Mitchell Palmer raids/Red Scare |
| Woodrow Wilson | 19th Amendment-womens sufferage |
| Woodrow Wilson | Treaty of Versailles with League of Nations |
| Woodrow Wilson | Schenck v. US |
| Woodrow Wilson | Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles |
| Woodrow Wilson | American Civil Liberties Union established |
| Woodrow Wilson | U.S. v. United States Steel Co. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Sinclair Lewis Main Street |
| Woodrow Wilson | Radio broadcasting begins |
| Warren G. Harding | Normalcy |
| Warren G. Harding | Revenue Act |
| Warren G. Harding | Budget and Accounting Act |
| Warren G. Harding | Emergency quota act |
| Warren G. Harding | Washington Naval Arms Conference |
| Warren G. Harding | Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act |
| Warren G. Harding | Sinclair Lewis Babbitt |
| Warren G. Harding | Charles Forbes and VA scandel |
| Warren G. Harding | Teapot Dome Scandal |
| Calvin Coolidge | Domestic policy- Laisse-fair or non-intervention |
| Calvin Coolidge | National Origins Act |
| Calvin Coolidge | Immigration Act |
| Calvin Coolidge | Scopes Trial |
| Calvin Coolidge | Florida real esate boom |
| Calvin Coolidge | F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby" |
| Calvin Coolidge | Theodore Dreiser "An American Tragedy" |
| Calvin Coolidge | Created the Federal Radio Commission |
| Calvin Coolidge | US troops in Nicaragua |
| Calvin Coolidge | Charles A. Lindbergh begins epic flight |
| Calvin Coolidge | Sacco and Vanzetti were executed |
| Calvin Coolidge | "The Jazz Singer" |
| Calvin Coolidge | Fords Model A introduced |
| Calvin Coolidge | Vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm bill |
| Calvin Coolidge | Kellogg Briand Pact |
| Herbert Hoover | Stock Market Crash |
| Herbert Hoover | William Faulkner "The sound of Fury" |
| Herbert Hoover | Earnest Hemingway "A FArewell to Arms" |
| Herbert Hoover | Depression |
| Herbert Hoover | Hoovervilles |
| Herbert Hoover | Federal Farm Board |
| Herbert Hoover | Smoot Hawley Tariff |
| Herbert Hoover | Emergency Committee for employment |
| Herbert Hoover | Vetoed Muscle Shoals Bill |
| Herbert Hoover | Scottsboro Case |
| Herbert Hoover | Japan invades Manchuria |
| Herbert Hoover | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| Herbert Hoover | Bonus Marchers |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Great Depression |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | first new deal |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | second new deal |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | emergency banking relief act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Glass-Steagall Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Good Neighbor Policy |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | U.S. officially recognizes Soviet Union |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hundred Days |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Bank Holiday |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Federal Securities Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 20th Amendment |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | 21st Amendment |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Alphabet Soup |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | TVA |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | SEC |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Indian Reorganization Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Huey Long, "Share the Wealth" |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Nye Committee investigations |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Social Security Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | National Labor Relations Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | WPA |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Schechter Poultry Corp. v. US |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | U.S. v. Butler |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | United Auto Workers sit-down strike |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Neutrality ACts |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Japan invades China |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Cash n' Carry |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Memorial Day massacre |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | court packing |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Roosevelt Recession |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Munich Conference |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | John Steinbeck "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Germany invades Poland, WW1 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Blitzkreig |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Battle of Britain |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Blacks march on Washington |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Pearl Harbor |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Fair Employment Practices Commission |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | War Powers Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Lend Lease |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Atlantic Charter |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Office of War Information |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Congress of Racial Equality |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Zoot Suit riots |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Casablanca Conference |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Teheran Conference |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | D-Day |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Servicemen's Readjustment Act |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Korematsu v. US |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Yalta Conference |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Manhattan Project |
| Harry S. Truman | Fair Deal |
| Harry S. Truman | Cold War |
| Harry S. Truman | Potsdam Conference |
| Harry S. Truman | V-E Day and V-J Day |
| Harry S. Truman | WW2 Nuclear Bomb |
| Harry S. Truman | Baby Boom |
| Harry S. Truman | Red Scare-McCarthyism |
| Harry S. Truman | Benjamin Spock "Baby and Child Care" |
| Harry S. Truman | George Kennan "Containment" |
| Harry S. Truman | Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain" |
| Harry S. Truman | Employment Act |
| Harry S. Truman | Truman Doctrine |
| Harry S. Truman | Marshall Plan |
| Harry S. Truman | Taft-Hartley Act |
| Harry S. Truman | National Security Council |
| Harry S. Truman | Central Intelligence Agency |
| Harry S. Truman | Federal Employee Loyalty Program |
| Harry S. Truman | Alger Hiss case |
| Harry S. Truman | Berlin Blockade-airlift |
| Harry S. Truman | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Harry S. Truman | China falls to communism |
| Harry S. Truman | USSR develops nuclear power |
| Harry S. Truman | Sweat v. Painter |
| Harry S. Truman | McCarran Internal Security Act |
| Harry S. Truman | NSC-68 |
| Harry S. Truman | 22nd Amendment |
| Harry S. Truman | Rosenberg Trials |
| Harry S. Truman | Ralph Ellison Invisible Man |
| Harry S. Truman | Hydrogen Bomb |
| Harry S. Truman | Korean War |