Timeline 1870-1940 by Lauren Whittaker

Gave any U.S. citizen the right to vote regardless of race, color, or "previous condition of servitude"

Allowed the President to use force to stop the klan and other terrorist forces.

Banned chinese from immigrating into the U.S.

Established merit system for government jobs

Broke up Indian Reservations

Segregated blacks from whites in certain states in the south.

Required the U.S. federal government to investigate companies that reduce competition in the marketplace (monopolies, price competition, etc.)

Seperate but equal facilities legalized.

Funded irrigation projects in the arid American West.

Decided that bakers could work at most ten hours a day and sixty hours per week in order to keep them healthy.

Created to insure public health safety from the use of spoiled foods.

Justified that women must work less hours than men to ensure their health.

Allowed federal government to establish an income tax.

Created to ensure equality in all races or "colored people".

Set up the central banking system of the U.S. and allowed it to issue U.S. dollars.

Allowed the goverment to build an army by drafting those capable of fighting.

Prohibited alcohol of any kind to be consumed.

Gave women the right to vote.

Stated that the minimum wage legislation for women was unconstitutional.

Creates quota system for immigration.

Raised tariffs on consumer goods.

Gave loans to businesses, railroads, and other corpartations during the Depression in order to stimulate the economy,

Economic programs enacted upon to "fix" the Great Depression. Created by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Gave the elderly, poor, and disabled funds in order to stop poverty during the Depression.

Belgium invaded by Germany

Poland invaded by Germany

Allowed to argue cases to the Supreme Court.

Occurred in Chicago and killed eleven people.

Founder-S. Gompers.

Killed ten people in all the chaos.

Supreme Court allowed segregation from other races with "equal" facilities.

President Roosevelt sets out to conserve forests.

Roosevelt permitted the intervention of the U.S. in Latin America.

With the war nearly over, blacks migrated to the north and west to find better jobs and opportunities.

19th amendment was passed and gave women the right to vote.

Crosses the Atlantic ocean and lands in Paris. First solo flight achieved.