American History 1st Semester Review by Mayra & Desirae

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/06/1800	Isolationism	Policy of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances. Also with economic commitments, foreign trade, international agreeents etc.
01/06/1840	Manifest Destiny	Belief in America that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent,.Started abput 1840's
01/06/1845	Tammany Hall	A New York City political organization founded in 1786 and incorporated on May 12,1789 as the Toammany Society. In late 1845, Tammany power surged with the influx of millions of Irish immigrants to New York
01/01/1850	industrialism	In the 18th to the 19th century, changes in things such as agriculture,manufacturing,mining and transportation happened.
01/06/1870	Social Darwinism	In the 1870's it was a term for theories of society about people who could or couldn't support themselves.
01/06/1870	Nationalism	Is a belief that what consumes a nataion. Things such as ethnic, cultural or religious groups or that Multinationality in a single state should neccessarily comprimise the right to excersize national identity even by minorities.
01/06/1870	Imperialism	When modern relatively developed nations were taking over less developed areas and colonizing them. When the U.S. started getting all of the land we have now.
03/11/1870	Imperialism	Age of imperialism began around 1870 when nations were taking less developed areas and colonizing them.
04/06/1878	Upton Sinclair	Born on septemer 20,1878. He wrote the book "The Jungle" (1906) which exposed conditions in U.S. Meat Packing Industry wich helped the progresive era.
02/13/1889	Franz Ferdinand	Franz Ferdinand was born in Graz,Austria and was the eldest son. in 1889 franz ferdinand's cousin committed suicide at his hunting lodge in meyerlinh. This lead to leaving Franz Ferdinand's father the thrown however his father died of typhoid fever and Franz was groomed to succeed.
01/11/1890	Progressive	The progressive era started around the 1890's. Many people led to reform local goverment, education, finances, insurance, railroads, churches and other areas.
01/06/1898	Spanish american war	Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States From 1897-98 American public grew angrier at reports of spanish attrocities in Cuba.
01/06/1901	Teddy Roosevelt	Born on October 27,1858. He became the twentysixths presidenty of the U,S, in 1901 He was one of the leaders in the progressive movement.
01/06/1901	Militarism	The belief of a goerment or people that a country should mantain a strong military.
01/06/1903	Muckrakers	Are reformed oriente journalists who wrote for popular magazines as investigative journalism and talked about boycotts, patriotlism and dirty tricks.
01/11/1913	Woodrow WIlson	Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856. The 28th president of the United States bfrom 1913 to 1921. He had full entry into World War 1.
01/06/1914	Allied Powers	Juy 28,1914 in Worl War 1 they had the allied powers. They were Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the U.S.
01/06/1914	Central Powers	World War 1 the other side fighting against the allied powes were Germany ,Austria-Hungary, ottomen empire and bulgaria.
07/28/1914	World War 1	WW1 started on July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11th, 1918. WW1 was one of the biggest wars fought in history, more than 9million people were killled. It started because of an assasination of Franz Ferdinand.
03/02/1917	Zimmerman Note	Zimmerman note was a 1917 depomatic proposal from the German Empire to Mexico to make war against the United States . It was cughtby the British before it got to Mexico. The message came as a coded telegram dispatched by the Foreign Secretary of the German Empire.It angered the Americans and led t a part of the U.S. declaration of war in April
01/06/1920	prohibation	When alcohol cannot be manufactured, transported or sold by anyone. During the prohibition people would make and sell alcohol illegally.
06/17/1930	Hawley-smoot tariff act	Was an act sponsered by the U.S, that raised tariffs over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.