Timeline

Ask yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.

1881

  • President James Garfield assassinated
1883

  • Pendleton Act establishes the Civil Service Commission
1890

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • People’s Party created in Kansas
1893

  • Economic depression begins
1894

  • Coxey’s Army marches on Washington, D.C.
1895

  • John Pierpont Morgan arranges gold purchases to rescue U.S. Treasury
1896

  • William McKinley wins presidency

  • Plessy v. Ferguson establishes “separate but equal” doctrine
1898

  • Williams v. Mississippi allows poll taxes and literacy tests for voters
1899

  • National Consumers’ League founded
1901

  • Eugene Debs founds the Socialist Party of America

  • McKinley assassinated; Theodore Roosevelt assumes presidency
1902

  • Newlands Reclamation Act
1903

  • Elkins Act
1904

  • Robert Hunter publishes Poverty
1905

  • Industrial Workers of the World founded

  • Niagara Principles articulated
1906

  • Hepburn Act
1908

  • Muller v. Oregon limits women’s work hours
1909

  • NAACP created
1912

  • Four-way election gives presidency to Woodrow Wilson
1913

  • Sixteenth Amendment

  • Seventeenth Amendment

  • Federal Reserve Act
1914

  • Clayton Antitrust Act

Question

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