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After reconstruction in the 19th century people started moving out west to live. They believed it was their God given right to move west.
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The U.S. started to conquer other nations to create an empire int the 18th century. Secretary of Sate bought Alaska for $7.2 million in 1867.
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Once president, Grant brought part of his army staff to the white house. Grant allowed Radical Reconstruction to run its course in the south.
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Hayes was pesident at the end of reconstruction. He was the one to begin civil service reforms.
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President Garfield fought against politial corruption. His precidency was cut short because he was assassinated.
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Arthur signed the Chinese exclusion act of 1882. Arthur did not win his reelection and died a year after.
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Cleveland was the first president to serve two non consecutive terms. He was the first democrat elected after the civil war.
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Harrison was the first one to have a "front-porch" campaign. Harrison's biggest strugle while in office was the problem with tariffs.
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Cleveland had to deal with a smaller scale depression. During this depression his policies were unpopular and cause his party to desert him.
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The Cubans were led by Jose Marti. Yellow journalists exaggerated stories of spanish actions in Cuba.
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The Supreme Court decision that allowed segregation if an equal opportunity is given to both races. "Seperate but equal" was never equal.
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Mckinley lead the nation to victory in the Spanish-American war. McKinley was assassinated in 1901 not allowing him to finish his term.
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The Spanish Minister wrote a letter saying that our President was weak. This letter was then stolen and published in the papers.
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This Warship was anchored in Havana harbor. It then exploded killing 260 American men.
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This was the start of the Spanish American War. The causes were the de Lome Letter and U.S.S. Maine.
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Our Navy allowed the U.S. to control new territories all around the world. We gain control over many areas and beeff yp our military presence around the world.
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Roosevelt organizes a group called the rough riders to fight in Cuba. The U.S. win the battle of San Juan Hill.
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Black men were attacked after voting by white men outside the government building with riffels. Fourteen black men were killed on this day.
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This treaty ended the Spanish American War. As a result, the U.S. is established as an imperial power.
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This hurricane is the deadliest hurricane is U.S. history. Between 6000-12000 people were killed.
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Leon Czolgosz assassinated Mckinley. Teddy Roosevelt immediately became president.
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Roosevelt was the youngest president in U.S. history. Roosevlet led the U.S. to have a strong foreign policy.
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After helping Panama become independent we were able to get their government to allow us to build the canal. Who ever controlled the canal could control who goes through it.
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Roosevelt extended the monroe doctrine with his speech about American power. he said that the United States should be the policemen of the western hemisphere.
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This was an extension of the monroe doctrine. It established the U.S. as the policemen of the western hemisphere.
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Taft did not believe in the stretching of presidential powers. Taft was so large they had to break him out of the bath tub.
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This fire killed 146 workers that could not get out of the building because the doors were locked. A movemnet began to increase safty regulations for businesses.
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Wilson led American into WWI. He established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business.
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A British passenger ship that was sunk. !28 Americans were killed.
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Black Americans migrated North and faced predjudice from white workers who were afraid the would lose their jobs. Racism stopped migration for minorities.
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This was telegram that was intercepted by the U.S. Germany was trying to get Mexico to declare war on the U.S.
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The U.S. only had 200,000 soldiers at the start of the war. The Congress then creaed the draft system in order to have more soldiers.
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This treaty was signed at the end of WWI. Many new nations were created and Germany was blamed for the war and had to pay a lot of money.
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This was a rise in art, literature, music, drama, and dance from black Americans. Duke Ellington was a great musician during this time.
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William G. Harding was faced with the teapot dome scandal. He eliminated wartime controls and cut taxes.
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Many Americans were homeless, jobless, and starving. Hoovervilles were formed outside the city.
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Hoover had to deal with the great depression. He had to cut taxes becuase of the stock market crash so he could help out everyone that lost everything.
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Investors tried to sell everything before they lost too much it was too late. By mid November, $30 billion in wealth had dissappeared.
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Drought struck and the prairie winds caused huge dust storms. Many farmers lost everything and left the plains.
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Roosevelt help his people regain faith. Roosevelt made the decision of entering WWII after the peal harbor attack.
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Boss Tweed created Tammany Hall to use immigrants negitavtly. This group controlled all activities of a political party in an area.
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Truman knew little to none about the atomic bomb. Truman had to make the decision to drop the atomic bombs to end the war.
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This treaty ended WWII. The United Nations is then created.
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This war wasn't really a war because there was no fighting. Every plan that was made was for if the other side attacked first.
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The Soviet Union cut off traffic into berlin hoping to force democratic nations to surrender their sectors. U.S. airlifted supplies into the city for 327 days.
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Eisenhower obtained a truce we Korea. He also worked hard at easing the tensions of the cold war.
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In this case, the supreme court ruled that "seperate but equal" has no place in education. This cause integration of schools to begin.
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An American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the soviet union. They then threatened to bury the U.S.
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Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. JFK focused a lot of civil and equal rights.
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The CIA trained refugees for an invasion and take over of the island. American involvement was uncovered immediately.
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Johnson's goal was to build "A Great Society" for the American people. Johnson also was the one to thank for the space exploration.
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Nixion imporved relations wit hChina and the U.S.S.R. He was the only president to ever resign.
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Nixon was going to be impeached for a white house scandle. Before he could be impeached he resigned so he wouldnt be the only president to be impeached and removed from office.
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Ford granted former president Nixon a full pardon. When it came to foreign affairs Ford had to keep the power of the U.S. and not allow another war.
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He was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 2002. Carter worked to end inflation and unimployment.
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Carter got Egypt and Israel to agree to a peace treaty. It backs up the idea of unconditional support of Israel.
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Reagan was shot but not killed 69 days after his presidency. He wanted to achieve peace through strength.
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After these workers went on strike for better pay, Reagan fired all of them that wouldn't return back to work. Out of 13,000 workers, 11,000 were fired.
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H W Bush wanted to make the U.S. a kinder and gentler nation. Bush faced a dramtically changing world as the cold war ended.
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During Clinton's presidency the U.S. was more peacful economically well than any other time in history. Clinton was the peace keeper of the presidents.
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George W. Bush ended up being a wartime president because of the 9/11 attacks on the world trade center towers. At the same time Bush gave everyone tax cuts.
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Terrorist flew two planes into the world trade center towers in New York. Another was flown into the pentagon and one landed in a field but was supposed to go to the White House.
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This hurricane left most of New Orleans under water. Thousands of people were forced to move throught the south east.
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Obama creaked a health care system called Obama Care. Right now Obama is faced with the decision of how to take out ISIS and the other terrorists.
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He was assassinated by Gavrillo Princip. This causes a chain reaction in which all of Europe became involded.
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The bomb ruined the city and killed many people. The devastation forced the surrender of Japan.