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1897-1929
Presidential Events
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Elkins Act | Strengthen laws against rebates |
| Hay-Herran Treaty | Rejected by Colombian Senate |
| Killed by Czolgosz | Polish anarchist assassinates McKinley |
| Treaty of Paris | Ends Spanish-American War |
| Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | US obtains rights to Panama Canal |
| Meat Inspection Act | "the jungle" inspired this reform |
| USS Maine Destroyed | Spanish blamed |
| Teller Amendment | Promised Cuban Independence |
| Platt Amendment | Made Cuba a US satellite |
| Postal Savings bank | banking at the post office |
| Hawaii annexed | Queen Liliuokalani deposed |
| de Lome Letter | Spanish minister insults McKinley |
| Dingley Tariff | McKinley's high tariff |
| 16th Amendment submitted to states | President Taft initiates income tax |
| Hepburn Act | T.R. Administration strengthens ICC |
| Trust Busting (Taft) | Higher record than T.R. |
| Mann-Elkins Act | Taft Administration strengthens ICC |
| Payne Aldrich Tariff | promised low tariffs but signed this high one |
| Canadian Reciprocity Treaty | Foreign competition in agriculture |
| Yellow Journalism and jingoism | Joseph Pulitzer and WR Hearst |
| Fired Gifford Pinchot as National Conservation Chairman | Ballinger-Pinchot controversy |
| Hay-Paunceforte Treaty | Abrogates the Clayton-Bulwear Treaty |
| White House Conference on Conservation | Governors assemble in Washington DC |
| Newlands Reclamation Act | Sale of federal lands to finance irrigation projects |
| Nashville helps revolution | stops Colombian troop movement |
| Busts Northern Securities Company | first trust(holding Company) T.R. busted |
| "Square Deal" | Theodore Roosevelt Campaign slogan |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | labels and ingredients required |
| Anthracite coal strike | Dramatized square deal |
| Spanish-American War | Splendid little war-John Hay |
| "The New Freedom" | Wilson's slogan |
| Underwood Simmons Tariff | First Scientific tariff |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | "Magna Carta of Labor"-Sam Gompers |
| Federal Trade Commission (FTC) | Investigates unfair business practice |
| Keating - Owen Act | Abolishes child labor temporarily |
| Federal Reserve System | Reservoir of capital, regulation of economy |
| Dollar matching | Federal-State cooperation for highway construction |
| Smith-Lever Act | Federal aid for agricultural schools |
| Adamson Act | 8 hr work day for railroad workers, same pay as previous 10 hr day. |
| 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th amendments | Income tax, direct election of senators, prohibition, women suffrage. |
| World War I | "war to end all wars" |
| Fourteen Points | "just and lasting peace", "peace w/o victory", "peace among equals" |
| Treaty of Versailles | Rejected by US senate |
| League of Nations | Pg 1 of the treaty of Versailles |
| Palmer Raids | Red Score |
| "Back to Normalcy" | Harding's slogan |
| Alien Property scandal | Thomas Miller goes to prison |
| Veteran's Bureau Scandal | Col. Forbes steals $250 million |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | Albert Fall, Secretary of Interior, goes to prison |
| Fordney-McCumber Tariff | Second highest tariff in US history |
| Washington Naval Conference | Republication Versailles, sets naval quotas |
| Rise of the Ku Klux Klan | Between 4 and 5 million by 1925 |
| National Origins Act | Discriminates against southeastern Europeans |
| Dawes Plan | Coolidge collects war debts |
| Long naps | Inactive President |
| Lindberg flight | New York to Paris, nonstop |
| Scopes trial | Darrow defends right to teach evolution |
| Vote of McNary-Haugen farm legislation | Coolidge denies farm relief |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | 62 nations "out law" war |
| "Final Triumph over poverty" | Hoover's boast |
| Wickersham Commission | Study of prohibition |
| Stock Market crash | Fuse on the Great Depression |
| Great Depression begins | in the Hoover Administration |
| Hawley Smoot Tariff | Highest tariff in US history |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Government loans to business |