Events
Mahan publishes "The Influence of the
Sea Power Upon History" (1890)1st Pan american
Conference (Oct 1889)New Orleans Lynching
(Mar 1891)Venezuela Boundary
Dispute (1895)McKinley Tariff
(Oct 1890)Hawaiian Monarchy
overthrown (Jan 1893)Maine blows up
(Feb 1898)Spanish-American War
(Apr. 1898 - Aug 1898)Battle of Manila
(May 1898)Navy Secretary commanded
US Asiatic Squadron
to attack Spain’s Philippines
in event of war (Feb 1898)Hawaii annexed
(July 1898)Battle of San Juan Hill &
Santiago Surrender
(July 1898)Spain signs Armistice
(Aug 1898)Treaty of Paris
(Dec 1898)Foraker Act
(Apr 1900)US grants citizenship
to puerto ricans
(1917)Insular Cases begin
(1901)US withdraws from Cuba
- honoring Teller Amendment
(1902)Cubans ratify Platt
Amendment
(June 1901)US breaks Filipino
insurrection (Feb 1901)Taft becomes civil gov of
Philippines (1901)First SIno-Japanese War
(1894 - 1895)Hay dispatches Open
Door Note (Sept 1899)McKinley killed
(Sept 1901)Hay-Pauncefote Treaty signed
(Nov 1901)Congress decides on
Panama route for
canal (June 1902)Varilla incites rebellion,
signs Hay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty (Nov 1903)Roosevelt Corrolary
made effective
(Jan 1905)Red - Presidential elections/terms
Maroon- Spanish-American war
Magenta - US encroaches on sovereignty of another nation
Orange - ProgressiveTreaty of Portsmouth
(Sept 1905)San Fran school
segregation (Oct 1906)Great White Fleet
starts world voyage
(Dec 1907)Root-Takashira agreement
signed (Nov 1908)Riis publishes How the
Other Half Lives (1890)Steffens publishes The
Shame of Cities (1904)David G. Phillips publishes
The Treason of the Senate
(1906)TR popularizes term
"Muckrakers" (Apr 1906)17th amendment
ratified (1913)Galveston, Tex is pioneering
example of progressivism in cities
(1901)La Follette becomes governor
of Wisconsin (Nov 1901)Johnson elected gov of
Cali (Nov 1901)National Consumers
League est (1899)Muller v Oregon
(Feb 1908)Lochner v New York
(Apr 1905)Triangle Shirtwaist
Fire (Mar 1911)Coal Strike of 1902TR creates dep't of
Commerce & Labor
(Feb 1903)Elkins Act
(1903)Supreme Court rules
Northern Securities Company
as a unlawful (Mar. 1904)Supreme Court rules
beef trust illegal
(1905)Taft files suit against
US Steel (Oct. 1911)Meat Inspection Act
& Pure Food and Drug
Act passed (Mar. 1906)Forest Reserve Act (1891)Carey Act (1894)Newlands Act passed
(June 1902)Sierra Club est.
(1892)Hetch-Hetchy incident
(1913)Panic of 1907
(Oct)Knox proposes to buy
Manchuria (1909)Marines land in Nicaragua
(1912)Supreme Court orders
dissolution of Standard
Oil (May 1911)Payne-Aldrich Bill passed
(Aug. 1909)Republicans lose
Congressional elections
(Nov. 1910)TR proposes doctrine
of "New Nationalism"
(June 1910)Periods
Cuban War for Independence
(Feb 1895 - Dec 1898)Philippine-American War
(Feb 1899 - July 1902)Boxer Rebellion
Nov 1899 - Sept 1901)Grover Cleveland's Presidency (Mar. 1885 - Mar. 1889)Benjamin Harrison's Presidency (Mar 1889 - Mar. 1893)Grover Cleveland's Presidency (Mar. 1893 - Mar. 1897)McKinley's Presidency (Mar. 1897 - Sept. 1901)TR's Presidency (Sept 1901 - Mar. 1909)Canal construction
(1904 - Aug 1914)US occupation of Cuba
(Sept 1906 - Feb 1909)Russo-Japanese War
(Feb 1904 - Sept 1905)Taft's Presidency (Mar. 1909 - Mar. 1913)
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