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Revolution and the Early Republic
A New Industrial Age
Dates
People
Acts
100
those who opposed independence and remained loyal to the British king—included judges and governors, as well as people of more modest means
What is Loyalists
100
This act reestablished the right of the federal government to super- vise railroad activities and established a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) for that purpose
What is Interstate Commerce
100
What year did Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the vote.
What is 1919
100
At the conference, the Secretary of State urged that no more warships be built for ten year
What is Charles Evans Hughes
100
which halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling
What is Pure Food and Drug Act
200
Those who supported Jefferson’s vision of strong state governments (mostly Southerners)
What is Democratic-Republicans
200
A golden spike marked the spanning of the nation by the first
What is transcontinental railroad
200
Puerto Ricans become U.S. citizens
What is 1917
200
heir to the Austrian throne and was shot by Serbian nation- alist Gavrilo Princip
What is Archduke Franz Ferdinan
200
Dictated strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created the pro- gram of federal meat inspection that was in use until it was replaced by more sophisticated techniques in the 1990's
What is Meat Inspection Act
300
a system to prevent any one branch from dominating the other two
What is checks and balances
300
Who invented the telephone
What is Alexander Graham Bell
300
Year Palmer raids occured
What is 1919-1920
300
Carranza’s provisional government Rebels under the leadership of this man
What is Francisco “Pancho” Villa
300
Act where a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort
What is Espionage and Sedition Acts
400
a government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives
What is republic
400
who invents a workable light bulb
What is Thomas A. Edison
400
The United States enters World War I.
What is 1917
400
was not supposed to be president. In 1900, the young governor from New York was urged to run as McKinley’s vice-president by the state’s political bosses
What is Theodore Roosevelt
400
The Act of 1914, sought to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. This Act prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly; if a company violated the law, its officers could be prosecuted
What is Clayton Antitrust Act
500
This act reestablished the right of the federal government to super- vise railroad activities and established a five-member Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) for that purpose
What is Interstate Commerce
500
technique involved injecting air into molten iron to remove the carbon and other impurities
What is Bessemer process
500
The Panama Canal opens in what year
What is 1914
500
a muckraking journalist who began research for a novel in 1904, his focus was the human condition in the stock-yards of Chicago
What is Upton Sinclair
500
This act banned entry to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials. In 1892, Congress extended the law for another ten years. In 1902, Chinese immigration was restricted indefinitely; the law was not repealed until 1943
What is Chinese Exclusion Act