-
Transconinental Railroad (chapter 6)
The transcontinental railroad sparked the spanning of the nation. This is the most important event in this chapter because it was the beginning of the railroad itself, which made communication easier as well as trade. -
Period: to
Chapter 6
-
Period: to
Chapter 8
-
Period: to
Chapter 7
-
Period: to
Chapter 9
-
Period: to
Chapter 10
-
Plessy v. Ferguson (chapter 8)
This supreme court decision was important because it was fought for African American rights against segregation. This decision essentially made segregation legal. The term "seperate but equal" was the excuse for why it was constitutional. -
Ellis Island (chapter 7)
Ellis Island was the entryway for immigrants crossing over to the americas. It is important because they endured harsh questioning and long detentions in order to find out whether or not they would be allowed in America. -
Panama Canal Opens (chapter 10)
The Panama Canal is important because it reduced travel time for commercial and military ships. It made America more of a world power because it enabled easier trade and made a profit for people in the US. -
Period: to
Chapter 11
-
The United States declares war on Germany (chapter 17)
The US declaring war on Germany is important because it engaged the US in foreign affairs, making America more of a world power, in the sense that we gain allies and begin to enter into the first world war. -
The 19th Amendment (chapter 9)
Congress passed the 19th Amendment in 1919, which granted women the right to vote. This is important because it shaped America in the sense that all people are starting to recieve the rights that will soon become the rights of all people instead of just the rights of white men. -
The Red Scare (chapter 12)
The US began this panic because of the Red state, or the communists. The US was afraid they would take over the country. -
Period: to
Chapter 12
-
20's Culture (chapter 13)
Women were starting to dress more like modern day americans, and immigrants were not well liked in the Americas -
Period: to
Chapter 13
-
Isolationism (chapter 11)
The United states was really trying to stay out of the world war at this time. However they started to respond to the Allied countried by sending them money and weapons in order to help their war effort. -
Period: to
Chapter 14
-
The Great Depression (chapter 14)
the Great depression affected many families in the US. The stock market crashed and along with it banks failed and shut down, and millions of Americans lost their homes, life savings, and jobs. -
Period: to
Chapter 16
-
Period: to
Chapter 15
-
the New Deal (chapter 15)
FDR's new deal sought to fix the economy thorugh Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Pearl Harbor (chapter 16)
The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, which sends the US straight into the war effort. By this point in time, the US has begun to fight alongside the Allies against Nazi germany. -
Period: to
Chapter 17
-
Period: to
Chapter 18
-
Period: to
Chapter 19
-
containment (chapter 18)
The US tried to contain communism, using things like the marshall plan and the iron curtain. They wanted to stop the spread of communism to other countries. -
American Dream in the '50s (chapter 19)
The american dream in the 50's was envisioned as suburbia, with a working father and a stay-at-home mom. With a TV, microwave, refrigerator, a car, and of course, children. -
Period: to
Chapter 21
-
Period: to
Chapter 22
-
Period: to
Chapter 20
-
Period: to
Chapter 23
-
The Great Society (chapter 20)
The Great Society was a series of reforms that was put in place by LBJ. These reforms were made to help Americans at home and at war. Things like the war on poverty, reforming education, civil rights, and consumer rights. These things went on to change America for the rest of time. -
Civil rights movement (chapter 21)
Blacks were continued to be segregated in schools, public facilities, busses, etc. this started protests and riots and violence throughout the US. For example, the little rock 9 incident required federal police to escort the black students into the white school, because so many people protested against it. -
WWII- the vietnam war (chapter 22)
The US begins to be involved with the Vietnam war and the struggles at war include terrain and weather. The struggles at home are people protesting the war because they believed that this war was not ours. -
Period: to
Chapter 24
-
counterculture (chapter 23)
The youths of the late 1960's were considered the counterculture. They were called this because their ideas strayed from the traditional American Dream of the '50s. They wanted to protest the war, do drugs, and women no longer wanted to have children or get married. -
Watergate (chapter 24)
Watergate was a scandal under the Nixon administration, in which the president was believed to have set up tape recorders into the campaign headquarters of the DNC. They had recorded the democratic partys trategy as well as taken pictures of important documents. This gave Americans bad thoughts about poilticians. -
Period: to
Chapter 25
-
"Reaganomics" (chapter 25)
The Reagan administration brought many changes to America. Reagan wanted to downsize the government with budget cuts and tax cuts. He also wanted to increasy military spending. -
Period: to
Chapter 26
-
terrorism 9/11 (chapter 26)
two hijacked commercial airplanes struck the twin towers in the world trade center in New York City. This resulted in new foreign policies and also resulted in the PATRIOT Act, which allowed the Federal Government to tap into American's private e-mails, text messages, and computers in order to prevent another terrorist attack on the USA.