Dates
Wright brothers first flight
1903
Made available to states funds to establish agricultural experiment stations
Hatch Act
expanded the size of the army
national defense act
new mexico and arizona were admitted to the union as a result of whose administration
taft
The first commercial radio station in America (in Pittsburgh).
KDKA
WWI begins
1914
a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave the FEDERAL government the power to control the money supply
federal reserve act
Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson were what kind of presidents
Progressive presidents
a car created by henry ford in 1908 that was priced low enough so that many Americans could afford
Modle T
the year KDKA went on the air
1920
renounced war as an instrument of national policy
kellogg-briand act
First Democrat to win the Presidency after the Civil War.
Grover Cleveland
Farmer who founded the Grange
Oliver Kelley
A plan to revive the German economy, the United States loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France
dawes plan
re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%
Under-wood simmons act
President. Increased size of Navy, "Great White Fleet".
Theodore Roosevelt
Gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft
selective service act
president who called for a return to normalcy following WWI
Warren Harding
main competitor of thomas edison
Nikola Tesla