Major Periods In American History
Progressive Age, 1900-1920
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- Roaring Twenties, 1920-1929
- The New Deal and the Era of Reform, 1920-1945
- The Cold War, 1945-1968
- Détente, Rapprochement, the “New World Order” 1968 - present
Progressive Age, 1900-192026. Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1908 Panama Canal, 1903-1914 "Square Deal" Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904 Portsmouth Treaty, 1905 Gentleman's Agreement with Japan, 1907 Hepburn Act, 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, and "muckrakers", 1906 Trust-busting Coal Strike 1902 Conservation Panic of 1907 – JP Morgan 27. William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 Paine-Aldrich Tariff, 1909 Pinchot-Ballinger controversy, 1909 "Dollar Diplomacy" Suit vs J.P. Morgan’s US Steel (more anti-trust than TR) 28. Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 Underwood Tariff, 1913 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments Federal Reserve System, 1913 Federal trade Commission, 1914 Clayton Anti-trust Act, 1914 Troops to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Virgin Islands, Mexico "Fourteen Points," January 1917 Treaty of Versailles, 1919-1920 "New Freedom" Roaring Twenties, 1920-192929. Warren G. Harding, 1921-1923 Teapot Dome Scandal (and others – Atty General Daugherty goes to jail for bribe taking) Washington Conference, 1921-1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff, 1922 Sec of Treasury Andrew Mellon (for next two Presidents as well) 30. Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1928 “The business of America is business” Vetoes McNary Haugen Bill Laissez Faire Cut taxes Silent Cal 31. Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 Panic and Depression Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Hoover Dam not enough “Rugged Individualism”/opposes direct welfare Stock market Crash, 1929 Hawley-Smoot tariff, 1930 Bonus Army The New Deal and the Era of Reform, 1920-194532. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 “New Deal” "Alphabet soup" bureaucracies World War II Labor reforms – pro-union Wagner Act, NLRB Elected four times African Americans switch allegiance to Democrats Great Depression Fireside chats Court Packing Plan 33. Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 World War II ends, Cold War begins Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, August 1945 Containment Taft-Harley Act, 1947 (over his veto) Truman Doctrine, 1947 Marshall Plan, 1947 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949 (Warsaw Pact in response) Korean War, 1950-1953 "Fair Deal" – tries for Medicare, higher minimum wage, more aid to vets, public works, unemployment insurance The Cold War, 1945-196834. Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1961 22nd Amendment Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Rollback of communism the "race for space"/Sputnik Alaska and Hawaii become states, 1959 U-2 Incident Warns of military industrial complex 35. John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963 Alliance for Progress Baker v. Carr, 1962 Peace Corps Bay of Pigs, 1961 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 "New Frontier" Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald – Warren Commission 36. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1968 Civil Rights Act, 1964 Voting Rights Act, 1965 Elementary and Secondary education reform /funding Medicare and Medicaid "Great Society" War on Poverty Gulf of Tonkin/Vietnam HUD, Headstart, NEA Détente, Rapprochement, & the “New World Order” 1968 - present37. Richard M. Nixon, 1968-1974 "Imperial Presidency" Landing on the moon, July 1969 Warren Burger, Chief Justice, 1969 (contrast to Earl Warren Court) Woodstock, August 1969 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established, 1970 Visit to China, February 1972 Visit to Russia, May 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), 1972 Kissinger and "shuttle diplomacy," 1973-1975 Allende regime in Chile overthrown with the help of the CIA, September 1973 Nixon resigns just prior to impeachment vote, August 9, 1974 Pentagon Papers, August 30, 1971 (supreme court allows the NY Times to publish) 38. Gerald Ford, 1974-1976 Republican 1st appointed Vice-President (then President, upon Nixon's resignation) Pardons Richard Nixon, 1974 OPEC crisis Executive Order 11905 - No political assassination Rise of Independents – disgust with political parties 39. Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Runs as “outsider”, non-DC politician Panama Canal Treaty signed, September 1977 Established diplomatic relations with China and ended recognition of Taiwan Three-Mile Island Incident, March 1979 (nuclear reactor leak in Pennsylvania) Camp David Accord - Egypt and Israel peace treaty Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979 (rescue attempt, 8 killed, April 1980) Seizure of Afghanistan by Soviets, 1979 "Stagflation" “Malaise” Misery Index (unemployment plus inflation rates) Boycott of Olympics in Moscow to protest invasion of Afghanistan 40. Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989 Hostages returned Soviet Union the “Evil Empire” Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court "Supply-side economics" Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”) funding Iran-Contra Hearings, Summer 1987 (Oliver North) Tax cuts lead to economic growth but also deficits Summits, arms reduction (INF Treaty) with Soviet Union 41. George H. W. Bush, 1989- 1993 Berlin Wall came down leading to the reunification of Germany, 1989 Invasion of Panama, 1990 Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm (the Gulf War), January to August 1991 Clarence Thomas to Supreme Court (Anita Hill) No new taxes pledge broken Americans with Disabilities Act 42. Bill Clinton, 1993-2001 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 1993 Proposed a national health care system, 1993 GOP takeover of House, 1994 – Contract with America Terrorism in OK City and US embassies Kenya/Tanzania Participated in air strikes in Bosnia, 1994/U.S. negotiates Dayton Accord to end conflict Welfare Reform New Democrat Sex scandal, 1998 Impeachment and Trial, 1999. Acquitted. Balanced budget, reduces national debt 43. George W. Bush, 2001-2009 Disputed election, eventually decided by the Supreme Court "Compassionate Conservatism" September 11, 2001 Attacks War on Terrorism, post-September 11, 2001 Attacks terrorist forces in Afghanistan Create Dept. of Homeland Security Patriot Act “War on Terror” Afghanistan War, 2001-present Iraq War & Occupation, 2003-2011 Proposed Social Security Reform Conservative appointments to the Supreme Court Growth in Medicare (prescription drug benefit)and deficits Two major tax cuts (2001, 2003) No Child Left Behind 44. Barack Obama, 2009-present Health Care Reform Act Ends Iraq War and moves to end Afghanistan conflict U.S. Labor History Time Line By Judy Ancel, UMKC (excerpts) 1842 The Massachusetts Supreme Court In Commonwealth vs. Hunt, declares that labor unions are not illegal conspiracies. 1869 First Knights of Labor local founded in Philadelphia open to all workers 1875 Conviction of "Molly Maguires" for anthracite coalfield murders 1877 Great railway strike leads to worker insurrections in many cities. 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago provokes massive repression of unions and radicals American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers as President. Dominant U.S. union after this incident 1892 Homestead Strike. Andrew Carnegie, with the help of state militia drive steelworkers union out of his mill at Homestead Pennsylvania. 1894 Pullman Strike and Boycott by Eugene Debs’ American Railway Union becomes nationwide rail strike, defeated by use of injunction and federal troops. Debs imprisoned for ignoring injunction to end strike.
arbitration by a presidential panel. TR gets credit for arbitrating strike. 1905 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) founded in Chicago Supreme Court in Lochner vs. New York rules bakery workers maximum hours law unconstitutional. In Muller vs.Oregon upholds state law limiting women workers’ hours. 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in NYC - 146 workers die. Leads to first workplace safety laws. 1914 Clayton Act limits use of injunctions in labor disputes. Unions are not illegal monopolies 1919 Massive strike wave and government repression in the Red Scare and Palmer Raids. IWW smashed. Boston police strike defeated. 1932 Norris-LaGuardia Act outlaws Yellow Dog Contracts. 1935 The Wagner National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) passes establishing first national labor policy protecting workers rights to organize and bargain. 1936 Wave of sit-down strikes for organization of workers – G.M. 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act establishes 40 hour week and minimum wage, outlaws child labor. CIO organizes as independent federation with John L. Lewis as President. 1942 A Philip Randolph's threat of a March on Washington wins Executive Order banning discrimination in war industries 1943 Labor shortages prompt government to recruit women into wartime industry, bracero program for contract Mexican labor and repeal Chinese exclusion. 1946 The war’s end generates the biggest strike-wave in US history 1947 Taft-Hartley Act passes aimed at containing labor expansion. It outlaws Union shop and allows states to pass "right-to-work" laws. 1955 AFL and CIO agree to merge Unions represent 33% of workforce. 1981 President Reagan fires 11,000 air traffic controllers and decertifies their union, PATCO, during an illegal strike. This unleashes over a decade of union busting.
Treaty of Paris, 1783 Napoleonic Wars Washington’s Farewell Address: No permanent alliances British impressments of American sailors (freedom of seas) French seizures of U.S. ships Barbary Pirates (Jefferson) Embargo Act, 1807 (Jefferson) War of 1812 against England (Madison) Expansion Louisiana Purchase, 1803 (Jefferson) Monroe Doctrine, 1819 (Monroe) Manifest Destiny, 1840s (Polk) Texas annexed, 1845 Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexican Cession, 1848 Oregon, 1846 Gadsden Purchase, 1853 Ostend Manifesto (failed attempt for Cuba) Alaska purchased from Russia, 1867 (Seward) Imperialism Spanish-American War, 1898 (McKinley) Teller Amendment, 1898 Acquire Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines Hawaii acquired as a territory Platt Amendment, 1901 (T. Roosevelt) Panama Canal (U.S. intervention in Colombia) Roosevelt Corollary, 1903-04
(British blockades, U.S. ships stopped, seized), Zimmerman Note, Reject Treaty of Versailles, 1919 (League of Nations, World Court)
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 1924 (Coolidge) Neutrality Acts, 1935, 1936, 1937 (F.D.R. opposes)
Good Neighbor Policy Lend-Lease Act Selective Service, 1940 Atlantic Charter, 1941, U.S.-Great Britain (United Nations) Pearl Harbor Cold War Atomic bomb tested, July 1945; used August 1945(Truman) Iron Curtain Truman Doctrine George Kennan’s containment policy Marshall Plan, 1948 Berlin Airlift, 1948 NATO, 1949 Korean War, 1950-53 (Truman/Ike) CIA-orchestrated coups in Iran, Guatemala, 1953-54 Warsaw Pact formed, 1955 Covert aid to South Vietnam (Ike), 1956 Fidel Castro deposes Batista, leads a communist Cuba U-2 incident, 1960 Bay of Pigs, 1961 (J.F.K.) Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 J.F.K. increases military advisors to 16,000 in Vietnam Johnson Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964), sends troops to Vietnam, 1965 Escalates to >500,000 troops by 1968, Tet Offensive Nixon spreads conflict to Laos and Cambodia Nixon ends U.S. role in the war by 1973 (Vietnamization) Détente: China recognized; Soviet grain deal, SALT I & II CIA-orchestrated coup in Chile, 1973 U.S. objects to 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Carter) Iranian hostages Support for Contras, Iran-Contra scandal (Reagan) S.D.I (“Star Wars”) proposed Gorbachev: INF Treaty with Reagan Berlin Wall torn down, 1989, East/West Germany reunited (Bush Sr.) Soviet Union dissolved, 1991 U.S. invades Panama, 1990 “War on Drugs” (Bush Sr.) Post-cold war Persian Gulf War, 1991 U.S. troops to Somalia, 1993 (Clinton) U.S. troops to Bosnia, 1995 War on Terrorism (George W. Bush): 9/11, Afghanistan Invasion, Homeland Security Dept., Patriot Act The (George W.) Bush Doctrine: Pre-emptive War; Iraq War, 2003-2011, Afghanistan War, 2001-present 1 A true two-party system was now firmly established. 2 The Socialist Party lost a more radical wing, which itself split into two Communist Parties, shown here as one party for simplicity. 3 The States' Rights Party, also known as the Dixiecrats, was a revolt from the Democratic Party, due to Truman's support for African American civil rights. Led by then SC governor Strom Thurmond. 4 H. Ross Perot, Texas billionaire, ran independently for the Presidency. Although he received no electoral votes, he did receive more than 19 million popular votes, the largest percentage for a "third party" candidate since Teddy Roosevelt ran as the Bull Moose candidate in 1912. The movement spawned by his candidacy has developed into a "Reform" Party, but has no clear vision other than to "throw the rascals out." 5 This contested election was not decided until January 2001 by the Supreme Court Directory: cms -> lib -> NY01913703 -> Centricity -> Domain lib -> 1. naclo 2015 – North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad lib -> 1. naclo 2017 – North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad lib -> Chem I honors Unit 2 Notes: Numbers in Chemistry Measurement lib -> Sanderson High School ap human Geography Summer Assignment 2016 lib -> Find fantastic ousd elementary music programs lib -> American Studies Pacing Calendar 2014-2015 lib -> The ap history Timeline 8000bce-the Present lib -> Absolutism in Europe Domain -> Unit 1: Getting Ready for Chemistry Download 372.8 Kb. Share with your friends:
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