Final Project

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  • California Gold Rush (sparked massive westward migration)

    California Gold Rush (sparked massive westward migration)

  • Rise of the Cattle Kingdom (cattle drives, open range ranching)

    Rise of the Cattle Kingdom (cattle drives, open range ranching)

  • Homestead Act signed (provided free land in the West to settlers)

    Homestead Act signed (provided free land in the West to settlers)

    The Homestead Act granted 160 acres of public land to any U.S. citizen on May 20, 1862.
  • Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

    John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President, while he was attending a play in Washington, D.C.
  • Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (related to railroads & robber barons)

    Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (related to railroads & robber barons)

    This project connected the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad.

  • Hiram Revels becomes the first African American U.S. Senator

  • Railroads & Robber Barons

    Railroads & Robber Barons

    (economic powerhouses like Vanderbilt)
  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age

    (term by Mark Twain; era of rapid industrialization, corruption, wealth gap)
  • Ratification of the 15th Amendment (not 5th): gave African American men the right to vote

    Ratification of the 15th Amendment (not 5th): gave African American men the right to vote

    Amendment grants African Americans the right to vote.
  • Election of 1876

    Election of 1876

    Controversial results, led to the Compromise of 1877 and end of Reconstruction

  • Carnegie & Business Integration Models

    (vertical integration in steel industry)
  • Rise of J.P. Morgan

    Rise of J.P. Morgan

    (banking, industrial consolidation, General Electric U.S. Steel)
  • Panic/Depression of 1893

    Panic/Depression of 1893

    (economic depression triggered by rail overbuilding and bank failures)

  • Election of 1896

    (William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan)

  • The Great Migration

    (African Americans move from South to Northern cities)
  • World War I

    World War I

    (U.S. joins in 1917)
  • The Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age

    (Roaring Twenties, cultural revolution, Harlem Renaissance)
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal

    FDR's programs to combat the Great Depression
  • World War II

    World War II

    U.S. enters in 1941 after Pearl Harbor
  • Post-War Prosperity

    Post-War Prosperity

    economic boom, suburban growth, GI Bill