1877-1918

People > Events
 * 1) Theodore Roosevelt- AH
 * 2) Woodrow Wilson
 * 3) Andrew Carnegie
 * 4) Grover Cleveland - holt
 * 5) John Rockefeller
 * 6) Upton Sinclair- AH
 * 7) Thomas Edison
 * 8) Wright Brothers
 * 9) Henry Ford
 * 10) Clara Barton
 * 1) WW1 -holt
 * 2) Square Deal- JImmy "tony" "AH"
 * 3) Plessy vs. Ferguson
 * 4) Compromise of 1877- holt
 * 5) Wounded Knee
 * 6) Sherman Anti-Trust Act
 * 7) Pure food and Drug act/ Meat inspection act
 * 8) Wright Brothers Flight -bf
 * 9) Zimmerman Telegram
 * 10) The league of nations - AH

1. Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States of America from 1901-1909. Known for his leadership of the Progressive Movementa was the leader of the Republican Party. Roosevelt was noted for his exuberant personality, achievements, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robuts masculinity.
 * Was responsible for taking on big industry, monopolies, trusts and robber barons, fighting for the little guy and creating the "Square Deal."
 * Responsible for creating our National Park System.
 * Been awarded both a Nobel Prize and a Congressional Medal of Honor
 * The youngest person to ever become President of the United States

2. Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and served from 1913-1921. He is important because many of his progressive programs still impact the nation to this day. As well as creating the Federal Reserve and giving them the power to authorize the US dollar as we know it,Wilson also approved federal income taxes. He also led the US through World War 1, keeping neutral at first but then leading the nation to victory by creating the War Industries Board to help in mass production and raising billions of dollars toward the war effort through Liberty bonds. He was instrumental in peace negotiations at the end of the war but unfortunately his Fourteen Points were not evident in the Treaty of Versailles because he became sick during the peace talks.Wilson’s impact on world politics was immense as he proposed the League of Nations, the first lasting international organization with the goal of keeping peace. __Progressive Reforms__ __World War I Achievements__
 * Federal Reserve Act – created Federal Reserve
 * Federal Income Tax
 * Clayton Anti-Trust Act- further limited big business, building on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
 * Created the War Industries Board to mass produce goods for the war effort
 * LibertyBonds
 * Fourteen Points outlined a plan for peace
 * League of Nations- 1st international peacekeeping organization

I used Wikipedia to find out more information on Wilson’s progressive reforms. Holt Evans

3. Andrew Carnegie I used wikipedia to find Carnegie's foundations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie Taylor
 * Scottish- American industrialist
 * Built Carnegie Steel Company which later merged with other steel companies and became U.S. Steel
 * Built Carnegie Hall
 * Founded Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.
 * 2nd richest man after J.D. Rockefeller, but donated most of his money to libraries, universities, and schools in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.

4. Grover Cleveland

Grover Cleveland, the only US president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, was in office from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland, a pro business Democrat, worked to fight corruption, promote fiscal conservatism, and champion integrity. In his second term he failed to deal with an economic depression. He refused to increase tariff rates and was a vehement supporter of the gold standard.
 * Authorized the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission
 * Promoted modernization of the US navy
 * Signed the Wilson Gorman Tariff Act which led to their reduction
 * Utilized the US military to help break up the Pullman Strike
 * Signed the Dawes act favoring assimilation of Native Americans
 * Ultimately failed to handle the Panic of 1893 and the economic depression that followed.

I used Wikipedia to find out more information about Cleveland's second term and how he handled economic depression. 5. John D. Rockefeller


 * Founder of Standard Oil Company
 * First great U.S. trust
 * Revolutionized the oil industry
 * World’s richest man for the time
 * First man to be worth over one billion dollars

9. Henry Ford


 * American industrialist
 * Founder of Ford Motor Company
 * Credited with the development of the Assembly line
 * Revolutionized the mass production of inexpensive goods

6. Upton Sinclair


 * Wrote the novel //The Jungle (1906)//
 * Exposing conditions too the U.S meat packing industry
 * Contributed to the Pure Food and Drug act of 1906 and the Meat Inspection Act

7.Thomas Edison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison Byron
 * Created the first industrial Research Laboratory
 * Invented the Phonograph
 * Invented the Light Bulb
 * Invented Electric power distribution
 * Invented the Fluoroscope

8. Wright Brothers [] Byron
 * Built the first airplane
 * Had first true flight even though it only lasted 12 seconds
 * Influenced more research and further improvements to the airplane
 * Opened the door to a new type of faster transportation

10. Clara Barton

I used wikipedia to find the date when the American Red Cross was founded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton Taylor
 * Teacher, patent clerk, nurse, and humanitarian
 * Nurse during the Civil War
 * Organized the American Red Cross in 1881
 * Several places named after Barton such as cities, schools, and community centers

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Compromise of 1877

Events leading up to it
 * Civil War had left the nation divided
 * Lincoln’s assassination had left the door open for radical reconstruction
 * Occupation of the south by federal troops
 * Election of 1876
 * Southern contempt over federal occupation.

Importance
 * Known as second corrupt bargain
 * Brought an end to post Civil war Reconstruction

__Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)__
 * First major government regulation of Big Business
 * Attempted to prohibit trusts that hindered competition in the U.S.
 * Was not effective until Teddy Roosevelt utilized it until the early 1900s

Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) 5 Things that led up to it... Why it’s important...  I used Wikipedia to find the details of the case. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson Taylor The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5 Things that led up to it... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why it’s important... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I used wikipedia to find information about drugs that the act warned against. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Food_and_Drug_Act__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Taylor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">State of Louisiana passed a law saying that blacks had separate quarters on railroads
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Free People of Color in New Orleans creates Committee of Citizens
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Committee of Citizens persuades Plessy to test state law
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plessy sits in white section of railcar
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Plessy refuses to leave railcar and is arrested
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Created “Separate but Equal Doctrine”, which wasn’t overturned until Brown vs. Board of Education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Legitimized segregation in the South
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Books by Samuel Hopkins Adams
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Florence Kelley’s social activism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Harvey W. Wiley’s research
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Theodore Roosevelt’s public education
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Protected consumers from poisonous medicines and spoiled food
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Labeled habit forming drugs such as heroin, cocaine, alcohol, and morphine
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spurned the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

__Zimmerman Telegram (1917)__
 * Telegram intercepted by British intelligence from Germany meant to reach Mexico
 * Diplomatic proposal for Mexico to declare war on the U.S.
 * Led to the American entry in to World War I

World War One 1914-1918 (US Involvement : 1917-1918

Causes that influenced America Going to war
 * German invasion of Belgium pitted US population against the Germans and their atrocities.
 * German sinking of the Lusitania, killing 128 American passengers.
 * German resumed unrestricted submarine warfare
 * Zimmerman Telegram in which Germany advocated Mexico to invade the US
 * Suspected German sabotage of American Ammunition supplies at Black Tom in New Jersey.

Why it’s important
 * United American home front showed that the US could maintain a war-time economy.
 * The US gained much more prominence in foreign affairs
 * “Peace without Victory” punished Germany which led to the rise of Hitler and American involvement in World War II.

Square Deal 5 Things that lead to it
 * Economic Policies
 * Intersate Commerce act of 1887
 * Antitrust suits
 * Roosevelts election
 * Sinclairs //The Jungle//

Why it was important...
 * Aimed at helping middle class citizens
 * Led to Antiquities Act of 1906
 * Led to Hepburn Act of 1906
 * Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

League of Nations 5 things that influenced...
 * World War 1
 * Paris Peace Conference
 * Treaty of Versailles
 * The Red Cross
 * Hague Conferences

Why it was important...
 * League of Nations had failed
 * Led to World War 2
 * United Nations its succesor

Wounded Knee Massacre

5 things that influenced...
 * Americans want for settlement in the west
 * Tension between the Indians and Americans built up over the years
 * Harsh treatment of Indians
 * Instagation of Indians by soldiers
 * Past Indian Battles (Little Bighorn, Sand Creek Massacre)

Why its important... [] Byron
 * Opened the eyes of Americans about the treatment of Indians
 * Ended conflicts with the Plain Indians
 * Changed the way the army took action towards Indians
 * One of the worst massacres of Indians

Wright Brothers First Flight What influenced it... 5 things that influenced... Why its important...
 * Leonardo da vinci glider
 * Curiosity of the brothers
 * Need for faster transportation
 * Industrial revolution
 * The want of human flight
 * Created faster transportation
 * Basis for starting improvements

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