1877-2008

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    early american history

  • declaration of independence

  • constitution written

  • bill of rights ratified

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    civil war reconstruction

    13th Amendment: abolished slavery
    14th Amendment: citizenship & due process
    15th Amendment: voting for all male citizens
    Plessy v. Ferguson: legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
    Homestead Act (1862): provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
    Sherman Antitrust Act (1890): outlawed business monopolies

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Telephone invented

    by Alexander Graham Bell
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    the guilded age

    industrialist who used questionable ways to grow their wealth vs business leaders personal fortune contributed to the country in some way.
    Philanthropy:desire to promote the welfare of others
    Monopoly:exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.
    Jane Addams:settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author.
    Laissez-Faire:abstention by governments from interfering in the workings of the free market.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    awarded government jobs based on merit

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business

  • Dawes Act

    gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively

  • Hull House

    first of many settlement houses

  • sherman anti-trust act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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    the progressive area

    muckrakers-reform-minded journalists
    referendum-a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.
    great migration- movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast
    NAACP-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    assimilation- process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group

  • Klondike Gold Rush

    (Alaska)

  • USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

  • Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

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    imperialism

    treaty of paris
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Rough Riders
    Foreign Policy
    Immigration Quotas
    Yellow Journalism

  • open door policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • The jungle by unpton sinclair

  • pure food and drug act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

  • Meat inspection act

    law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat

  • NAACP founded

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • 16th amendment

    established the federal income tax

  • 17th amendment

    direct election of U.S. Senators

  • Federal reserve act

    established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    world war 1

    railroad act
    war in Europe
    lustiane
    Alvin York
    Homefront
    M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
    Sussex Pledge
    American Expeditionary Forces

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National park system created

  • Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

  • Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the wa

  • Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

  • President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

    statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations

  • 19th amendment

    women are given the right to vote

  • 18th amendment

    prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
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    The Roaring 20's

    Social Darwinism
    The Red Scare
    Assembly Line
    Return to Normalcy
    Harlem Renaissance

  • Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • American Indian Citizenship Act

    granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

  • Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

  • Stock Market Crash

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    the great depression

    Hoovervilles
    The New Deal
    Causes of the Great Depression (5)
    Court Packing
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • 20th amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

  • social security act

    established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War II

    Island Hopping
    Liberation of Concentration Camps
    Dwight Eisenhower
    Douglas MacArthur
    Chester W. Nimitz
    Navajo Code Talkers
    Tuskegee Airmen
    Flying Tigers
    The Manhattan Project
    Rosie the Riveter

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I bill

    gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan

  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II

  • United Nations formed

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    early cold war

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
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    end of the cold war

  • Berlin Airlift

  • marshall plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

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    Civil rights era

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Interstate Highway Act

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 24th amendment

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Civil Rights Act

    rohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • iran Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

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    1990-21st century

    Barack Obama
    al-Qaeda
    No Child Left Behind
    President Clinton’s Impeachment
    Presidential Election of 2000

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina