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| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 prohibited further immigration to the US by chinese laborers |
| Dawes Severalty Act | 1887 designed to break up tribal organizations. divided tribal lands into 160 acres or less. |
| Massacre of Wounded Knee | December 1890. over 200 native americans were gunned down by us army. marked the end of indian wars. |
| Indian Reorganization Act | 1934 reorganized indians |
| Plessy v. ferguson | 1896 separate but equal. jim crow laws. |
| Sherman Antitrusht Act 1890 | 1895 US v. E.C. Knight Co. ruled that Sherman Antitrust act could be applied only to commerce, not manufacturing |
| The Pendleton Act of 1881 | 1881 set up the civil service commission and created a system of examination for federal jobs. prohibited civil servants from making political contribution. |
| Greenback Party | 1878 supporters of paper money. wanted to increase the amount of money in circulation. |
| Bland-Allison Act | 1878 allowed limited coinage in silver |
| McKinley Tariff | 1890 raised tax on foreign products to a peacetime high of over 48%. |
| Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 | 1890 increased coinage of silver. |
| Populist Party | 1892 do something about economic power in the hands of trsuts and bankers. restoration of givernment to the people by direct popular election of US senators and enacting state laws by voters themselves through initiatives and referendums. they wanted unlimited coinage of silver and a graduated income tax and public ownership of railroads by US government and eight hour workdays. they attacked laissez-faire capitalism. formed political alliance between poor whites and blacks. |
| Pan American Conference | 1889 goal: hemispheric cooperatino on both economic and political issues. |
| Yellow Journalism | exaggerated the truth |
| De Lome Letter | 1898 Spanish diplomat's letter. critical of president mckinley. an official spanish insult against US. |
| Maine | Feb. 15, 1898 this ship exploded. yellow press falsely accused Spanish of explosion |
| Teller Amendment | 1898 Congress authorized war. declared that US had no intention of taking political control of Cuba that once peace was restored, Cuban people could control their government |
| Platt Amendment | 1901 forced cuba to agree to these terms: never to sign a treaty with a foreign power that impaired its independence. never build up excessive public debt. let us intervene in cuban affairs to preserve its independence and maintain law and order. allow us to maintain naval bases in cuba. |
| Boxer Rebellion | 1900 secret society of chinese nationalists attacked foreign settlements and murdered dozens of christian missionaries due to nationalism and xenophobia. |
| Hay-Pauncefote treaty | 1901 allowed us to make canal without british involvement |
| gentlemen's agreement | 1908 japanese government agreed to restrict emigration of japanese workers to the us in return for Roosevelt persuading california to repeal the segregated japanese schools. |
| Root-Takahira Agreement | 1908 mutual respect for each nation's pacific possessions. support for open door policy in china. |
| Jones Act 1916 | 1916 granted full territorial status to that country. guaranteed bill of rights and male suffrage to filipino citizens. promised phili independence. |
