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Telegraph
The telegraph was used to communicate with others. To talk to others you had to use morse codea nd know how to read it and use it. -
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Immigration
We passed some literacy test and formed immigration Restriction League. Imigrants faced poor traveling conditions and lost everything. -
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Cowboys
American cowboys learned about cattle industry from Mexican vaqueros. The cattle were then sent to packing plants in Chicago. -
Imperislism
U.S. paid Spain $20 million and tookover the Philippines. Hawii was full of American sugar plantersand Queen Liliuokalani wanted to kick them out. A revolution was organized and on August 12, 1898 Hawaii became U.S. territory. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. -
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Jim Crowe Laws
Poll taxes and literacy test wereused to keep many blacks from voting. Grandfather clause allowed poor illerate whites to vote. -
James Garfield
He only stayed in office for 200 days and then he was assisnated. He had been elected to the Senate before he was president. -
Chester A. Arthur
Arther had a negative reputation because of his early career in politics as part of New York's Republican political machine. He succeeded by embracing the cause of civil service reform. -
Grover Cleveland
He was the 22nd and 24th President. Cleveland was the leader of the pro-business Bourbon Democrats who opposed high tariffs, Free Silver, inflation, imperialism, and subsidies to business, farmers, or veterans -
Benjamin Harrison
He was the grandson of the ninth President, William Henry Harrison. Before he was elected president Harrison established himself as a local attorney, Presbyterian church leader and politician in Indianapolis, Indiana. -
William McKinley
Six months into his second term, he was assassination in September 1901. McKinley led the nation to victory in the Spanish American War. -
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Spanish American War
During the Spanish American war we fought in Cuba. Our navy allows the US to control new terrtories around the world. -
Wilmington Race Riot
Black men are attacked after voting, by whte men outside a government building. 14 black men killed and this caused the rise in Jim crowe laws. -
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Open Door Policy
The Open Door Policy was created because the US wanted a sphere of influence in China, but didnt have access to one. This new ppolicy allowed the United States to compete with other large imperialism powers for Global contral. -
Galveston Hurricane
It had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour, making it a Category 4 storm. The hurricane caused great loss of life with the death of between 6,000-12,000 people. -
Theodore Roosevelt
He was a leader of th Republican party. he was elected governor of New York in 1898. McKinley won on his campaigning that was peace, prosperity, and conservatism. -
William Howard Taft
He is the only person to have presided over both the executive and judicial branches of the United States federal government. Taft served as Solicitor General of the United States and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. -
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The Great Migration
Blacks migranted to northern cities for work. Blacks faced prejudice from white workers who were afraid they would lose there job. -
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson earned a PhD in political science, working as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being chosen as President of Princeton University. He passed the Adamson Act, imposing an 8-hour workday for railroads. -
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WWI
Called the war to end all wars. Causes of the war nationalism, militarism, imperialism, and alliances. Hungary was assassinated by a Serbian terroist. -
Lusitania Sinks
British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. The attack aroused considerable indignation in the United States, but Germany defended the action, noting that it had issued warnings of its intent to attack all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. -
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Treaty of Versailles 1919
Was signed at the end of WWI. Created New nations. THw failure of this treaty lead to WWII and the Cold war. -
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19th Amendment
Gave women the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for women’s rights launched on a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls. -
Warren G. Harding
Harding is rated one of the worst presidents. He was governor in 1910, and was elected to the Senate in 1914. -
Calvin Coolidge
He was a Republican lawyer from Vermont and eventually becoming governor of that state.His reputation underwent during the Ronald Reagan administration. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
John Scopes was tried for teaching Darwin evolution in a high school. He was found guilty and fined, but the desision was set aside because of a technicality. -
Herbert Hoover
He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I. -
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Great Depression
Women lost jobs because employers believed that men needed jobs more. Childen quit going to school and looked for work. -
Stock Market Crash
Investors tried to sell off everything before prices fell too far.By mid November $30 billion in wealth had disappeared. -
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Hawley-Smooth Tariff
This Raised tariff of 20,000 different goods to protect the production of American products. This led to many of boycotts beause tariff reached as high as 59% on some ideams. -
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Dust Bowl
There was a drough and prairie winds that caused huge dust storms.Many of farmers lost everything and left the plains. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Democrat, he won a record four elections and served from March 1933 to his death in April 1945. He built the New Deal Coalition that united labor unions, big city machines, white ethnics, African Americans, and rural white Southerners. -
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Good Neighbor Policy
This was an isolationist idea that the United States would stay out of the affairs of other countries. Many people approved because they felt the focus should be on helping the American Economy -
Hitler marched into Europe
Hitler took over Austria saying that he was helping Germans in the country. Hitler also forced Czechoslovakianto agree to be taken over. -
Lend-Lease Act
Provided U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms or any other defense materials for which Congress appropriated money to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States.” -
Pearl Harbour Attack
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii. -
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Internment camps
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation during World War II. 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country. -
Harry S. Truman
In the last five months of World War I, he served in combat in France as an artillery officer in his National Guard unit. ruman was first elected to public office as a county official and became a U.S. Senator in 1935. -
Atomic Bombs
U.S. dropped two atomic bombs: One on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki. The devastation forced the surrender of Japan. -
Treaty of Versailles 1945
This treaty ended WWII. United Nations is found and atomic age is found. -
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The Nuremberg Trails
The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II. Members of the Nazi party were prosectued for their involvement in the war. -
National Security Act
President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act. The act took well over a year to craft. -
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Coldwar
During the cold war no one actually fought.The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II. -
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Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union cut off trade with Berlin, hoping to force democratic nations to surrender their sectors. U.S. and Britain airlift supplies into the city for 327 days. -
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Segregation in the South
Plessy v. Ferguson law stated separate but equal. The Supreme Court outlawed segregated public education for blacks and whites at the state level -
Dwight Eisenhower
He was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe. -
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Interstate Highway System
Dwight Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This helped us leave a place fast if we needed to. -
John F. Kennedy
The 35th President from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. Kennedy's time in office is also marked by high tensions with Communist states. -
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Cuban Invasion
Theodore Roosevelt resigns as assistant secretary of the Navy, then organizes a group of former soldiers called the Rough Riders to fight in Cuba. U.S. forces win the Batte of San Juan Hill on July 1,1898 -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was the 36th President from 1963 to 1969. He spent six years as Senate Majority Leader, two as Senate Minority Leader, and two as Senate Majority Whip. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Richard M. Nixon
Was the 37th President of the United States. Served from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office -
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Richard Nixons Impeachment
Nixon refused to give over his personal tapes of White House conversations as evidence. Congress was prepared to impeach Nixon but Nixon resigned before they could. -
Gerald R. Ford
He was the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He claimed as the first person to have served as both Vice President and President of the United States without being elected to either office -
James Earl Carter
He was the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. He was a peanut farmer who served two terms as a Georgia State Senator. -
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Reagonomics
Cut in spending in areas that aided the poor . This increased spending for military. -
Ronald Reagan
He was an American politician and actor. He was the 40th Presdient. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed "Reaganomics", advocated tax rate reduction to spur economic growth, control of the money supply to curb inflation, economic deregulation, and reduction in government spending. -
George Bush
The 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Republican, he previously served as a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence. -
William J. Clinton
he was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history, and signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement. -
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NAFTA
North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) encourages trade between North American countries. This resulted in Globalization and moving of jobs around the world to countries with no labor laws. -
GATT
Many of countries come together and agree on fair tariff rates. Then later becomes the World Trade Orangization which still exists today. -
Election of 2000
The election was very close. After the Supreme court intervened, Bush was named the winner. -
George Bush
He served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Eight months into Bush's first term as president, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occurred. Bush responded by launching the "War on Terror" -
Barack H. Obama
The 44th and current President of the United States, as well as the first African American to hold the office. Obama signed into law economic stimulus legislation in response to the Great Recession in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. -
election of 2008
Barack Obama against John McCain. Obama became the first black president. -
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. He began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.
