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Westward Expansion
- Growth of railroads
- Mining
- Ranching & Cattle Industry Boom
- Farming and Agricultural Innovation
- Conflict with Native Americans
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Westward Expansion
- Growth of railroads
- Mining
- Ranching & Cattle Industry Boom
- Farming and Agricultural Innovation
- Conflict with Native Americans
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Gilded Age
- Industrialization
- Monopolies
- Andrew Carnegie
- Immigration
- Urbanization
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The Gilded Age
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U.S. Imperialism
- U.S. expansion overseas
- Spanish American War 1898
- Annexation of Hawaii
- Teddy Roosevelt
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U.S. Imperialism
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Progressive Era
- Democratic Reforms
- Regulation of Monopolies
- Consumer Protection
- Environmental Conservation
- Women's Suffrage: 19th Amendment
- Prohibition
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Progressive Era
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World War 1
- Listuania
- Zimmerman Telegram
- Trench Warfare
- Woodrow Wilson
- League of Nations
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World War 1
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Roaring Twenties
- Jazz Age
- Flappers
- Prohibition
- The "new" KKK
- Scopes trial
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The Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
- Stock Market Crash
- High Unemployment
- herbert Hoover
- Franklin d. Roosevelt's New Deal
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The Great Depression
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World War 2
- Pearl Harbor
- Holocaust
- Adolf Hitler
- Europe and the Pacific
- Atomic Bomb
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World War 2
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Cold War
- Soviet Union
- Communism
- Containment
- Arms Race
- Space Race - Sputnik 1957
- Espionage
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The Cold War
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Civil Rights Movement
- MLK, Jr.
- Rosa Parks
- Sit Ins
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- "I have a dream"
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Civil Rights Movement
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Period: to
Vietnam War
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Vietnam War
- Part of Cold War
- U.S. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Draft
- Antiwar Movement
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Late 20th Century
- Inflation
- Oil Crisis
- Conservative Resurgence
- End of Cold War
- Technological Revolution
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Late 20th Century
-
U.S. in the 21st Century
- Globalization
- 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
- War on Terror
- Hurricane katrina
- 2008 Economic Recession
- Election of Barack Obama
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U.S. in the 21st Century
