1877-1918

Events

 * 1) World War One
 * 2) Interstate Commerce Act
 * 3) Plessy vs. Ferguson
 * 4) Sherman Antitrust Act
 * 5) Roosevelt Corollary
 * 6) Spanish-American War
 * 7) Wounded Knee
 * 8) Dawes Severalty Act
 * 9) Haymarker Square Riot
 * 10) First Successful Flight

People

 * 1) Theodore Roosevelt
 * 2) Woodrow Wilson
 * 3) Rutherford B. Hayes
 * 4) William McKinley
 * 5) William Howard Taft
 * 6) Henry Ford
 * 7) John D. Rockefeller
 * 8) Andrew Carnegie
 * 9) Eugene V. Debs
 * 10) Upton Sinclair

__Haymarket Square riot (1886) __
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Influences… The Haymarket square riot was a bombing that took place in Haymarket square. Strikers were asking for shorter hours when a bomb was thrown at police officers. They retaliated with gunfire and killed a dozen people. This made unions look like anarchists and lost their support.
 * Industrial production
 * Thousands of workers
 * Very low pay
 * Armed anarchists
 * Depression of 1873

__Interstate Commerce Act (1887) __
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Influences…


 * Trusts
 * Railroads main transportation
 * Railroad Prices
 * Growing corporations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">No competition

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad monopoly that has been formed. The act required states to have reasonable prices. The farmers were being hurt due to the long haul and short haul prices. The interstate commerce commision was built to regulate the act. It saved the U.S from overpriced rates.

Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
http://thepresidency.org/newsroom/on-this-day/707-february-8-1887

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 abandoned the idea of dealing with Native American tribes as separate nations. The act was passed to break up tribal organizations and reservations that reformers believed kept the Indians from becoming civilized. The act was a complete failure, because by the turn of the century, disease and poverty reduced the Native American population to just 200,000. The main purpose of the act quickly changed from the concern of private native land ownership, to satisfying the white settlers demand for land areas of land.

__Sherman__ __Antitrust Act (1890)__
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Influences… This was the first legislation passed by Congress to forbid trusts, it forbade monopolies from forming, and kept a regulation on big businesses. With the Standard Oil Company, along with other big trusts, forming, the threat of monopolies increased and this helped regulate those big businesses.
 * Formation of monopolies
 * Industrial Revolution in America
 * Companies being ruled by trusts
 * Big Businesses created
 * Unfair regulation in corporations

Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
[] [] The Wounded Knee Massacre marked the final confrontation between Indians and the United States Government on the great plains. It resulted from the Native American religious revival known as the Ghost Dance. 90 men and 200 women were slaughtered while participating in the Ghost Dance in this historic event. Its significance on the development of the United States lies in the fact that it marked the end of any organized Native American resistance to the US government.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Plessy v Ferguson (1896) __
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Influences… <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Plessy v Ferguson upheld the constitution in the supreme court ruling “separate but equal.” It began when. Plessy sat in a whites only cabin on a train. He was asked to move but refused and was arrested. He then went through two court cases and never ended up winning.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Racial segregation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Segregated railroad carts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Plessy sitting in a whites only cabin
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Plessy v. The State of Louisiana //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Supreme court ruling //

The Spanish-American War (1898)
[] -Influences
 * Cuban revolution
 * Yellow Journalism
 * Religious groups wanted intervention
 * the Explosion of the Maine
 * a Spanish letter said the pres.William McKinley was weak

The Spanish-American War was a short war. It was caused by yellow journalism and pressure from the public to fight the Spanish. It is sometimes called "the Splendid little war" because it was so short and helped end tension between whites and blacks because everyone was fighting in it. It also marks the beginning of the USA getting involved in world affairs.

The First Successful Flight (1903)
[] -Influences
 * Technological advances in late 1800s and early 1900s.
 * Their Bicycle shop
 * a toy that the wright bros father got them
 * Gliders
 * transportation/exploration

The First Flight happened at Kitty Hawk, NC. The two Wright brothers were born in Dayton, Ohio, and were always fascinated by the thought of flying. The invention of the airplane is not only important to American History, but also to world History.

The Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
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 * Monroe Doctrine
 * Teddy Roosevelt
 * Strong Navy
 * European Blockades of Venezuela
 * Good relations with South and Central America

The Roosevelt Corollary is important because it is an extension of the Monroe doctrine. It states that the Europeans can not come into the Western Hemisphere and cause trouble. It says that America is going to be the Peace Keeper of our Hemisphere, and now we can enforce it.

__World War One (1914-1918)__
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Influences… Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Bosnia, a world war broke out. It was Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia (the Allied Powers). The United States would join in 1917 after the Zimmerman Note, a telegraph from Germany we intercepted telling Mexico they should invade the US. This was the first war involving this many countries, and was ended by the treaty of Versailles. =__IMPORTANT PEOPLE 1877-1918__=
 * Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
 * Militarism
 * Alliances
 * Imperialism
 * Nationalism

Theodore Roosevelt
[] Teddy Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States. During his two terms in office, he spent much of his time on conserving National Parks and Forests. He is also called the "trust-buster", because he broke up many monopolies and split them among the people. Also during his terms as president, he made the Square deal, the Roosevelt corollary, started the Panama canal, won a Nobel peace Prize, and built up the navy so that America could become a World super power.

__Woodrow Wilson__
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Woodrow Wilson was our 28th President and in office during the First World War. He declared neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after the Zimmerman Note he knew we had to enter on the side of the Allies. He helped get the League of Nations put into the Treaty of Versailles, but because the Senate was Republican dominant at the time, the US did not pass the treaty.

__Rutherford B Hayes__
[|www.millercenter.org/president/hayes] [] Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President in the election of 1876. As a result, he ended Radical Reconstruction and oversaw the United State's entry into the second industrial revolution. Hayes ordered federal troops to put down the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. During his 1877-1881 presidency, Hayes was determined to reform the system of the civil service appointments which had been based on the spoils system.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">William McKinley __
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William McKinley was important because he was the 25th President of the United States. McKinley led the nation to a victory in the Spanish-American War, raised protective tariffs to promote American industry, and maintained the nation on the gold standard. McKinley's was assassinated on September 1901, but his presidency began a period of over a third of a century dominated by the Republican Party.

__William Howard Taft__
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Taft is widely known for his implication of Dollar Diplomacy. This foreign policy was adopted by the United States to further its aims in East Asia and Latin America through economic power and loans that were granted to other countries. Taft was the only person in United States history to have served as the President and the Supreme Court Chief Justice. During his 1909-1913 presidency, Taft has a belief in Unitarianism.

__Henry Ford__
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Henry Ford was an inventor who created the first Model-T car, the first nationally owned automobile. It was such a great car because it was cheap and easy for lots of people to own. He also created the assembly line, and this is why he could make so many of his cars.

John D Rockefeller
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John D Rockefeller is a pioneer of his time. He created the Standard Oil Company and his business went on to become one of the biggest monopolies in America. His company practiced Horizontal integration by buying most of the oil refineries in the USA. The Standard Oil company became the first trust in America before being broken up.

__Andrew Carnegie__
[] [] Andrew Carnegie was one of the first men to create a trust and form a big business. He made his fortune in steel, but this was not the only reason he was such an important person. He donated millions of dollars to public forums including libraries, schools, and more.

__Eugene V. Debs__
[|www.milestonedocuments.com/people/view/eugene-v-debs/impact] [] Eugene V. Debs was the most important socialist leader in American history. He spoke out against government oppression and the policies that supported this oppression. He was extremely discontent that the free speech clause of the first amendment was not being enforced in US Supreme Court cases. Also, he was a founding father of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World.

__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Upton Sinclair __
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Upton Sinclair was important because he showed the public the horrors of the meatpacking industry. He wrote many books and was a very well respected author. This caused much outrage throughout the country. Thanks to his book, the Pure Food and Drug Act was established to help keep our food clean and safe. It also called for meatpacking industries to be put under watch and make clean meat.

KW: Rockefeller, Roosevelt, Roosevelt Corollary, Spanish-American War, First Successful Flight GT: Ford, Carnegie, Wilson, Anti-Trust Act, WWI BD: Taft, Hayes, Debs, Wounded Knee, Chinese Exclusion Act PW: McKinley, Sinclair, Interstate Commerce, Plessy, Haymarket Square