Themes: ● Technology ● Geography and Environment ● Migration and settlement ● Politics ● America in the “world” ● Regional culture ● Social Structures & American Identity (with abbreviations)
1890 (T) - "How the Other Half Lives" published
1892 (GE) - Sierra Club created
1893 (MS) - Turner Thesis on Closing of American Frontier
1898 (P, AITW) - Spanish American War, annexation of Hawaii
1899 (P) - Filipino Rebellion
1901 (P) - Theodore Roosevelt becomes president
1902 (P) - Anthracite Coal Strike
1903 (T, AITW) - Northern Securities v. US, acquisition of Panama
1904 (P, AITW) - Roosevelt Corollary
1905 (T, SS&AI) - US Fish Commission created
1906 (T, SS&AI) - "The Jungle" published, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act
1913 (P, SS&AI) - 16th Amendment, 17th Amendment, Federal Reserve Act
1914 (AITW) - World War I starts
1915 (RC) - Birth of a Nation movie, sinking of the Lusitania
1917 (RC, AITW) - Alice Paul Hunger Strike, Henry Ford begins construction on River Rouge Plant, Zimmerman Note, US Joins World War I
1918 (RC) - Sedition Act, World War I Ends, Treaty of Versailles
1919 (P, RC, AITW) - 18th Amendment, Schenek v. US, First Red Scare, Red Summer, Big Labor Strikes, US Rejects Treaty of Versailles
1920 (SS&AI) - 19th Amendment
1921 (SS&AI) - Sanger founds American Birth Control League, Immigration Act of 1921, Washington Naval Conference
1924 (MS) - Immigration Act of 1924
1925 (RC) - Scopes Monkey Trial
1927 (RC) - The Jazz Singer movie
1928 (P, AITW) - Hoover elected president, Kellogg-Briand Pact
1929 (SS&AI) - Stock Market Crash
1932 (P) - Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bonus Army, Hoover-Stimson Doctrine
1933 (P, SS&AI) - FDIC created, Prohibition Repealed
1935 (GE, SS&AI) - Black Sunday Dust Storm, WPA created, Social Security Act, Schechter Poultry v. US, Neutrality Act
1937 (P) - FDR announces court packing plan, Quarantine Speech
1938 (SS&AI) - Fair Labor Standards Act
1939 (AITW) - World War II starts, Cash and Carry Law
1940 (P, AITW) - FDR wins third term, Bases for Destroyers Deal
1941 (P, AITW) - Lend Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, US Joins WWII
1942 (P) - Japanese Internment Order
1943 (RC) - Zoot Suit Riots
1944 (P, AITW) - Korematsu v. US, Yalta Conference, D-Day Invasion
1945 (AITW, P) - VE Day, Atomic Bombs, End of World War II