Final Timeline

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    Manifest destiny

    The belief that Americans are destined to expand west word and gain new lands.
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    U.S. Imperialism

    The expansion United States economic, political, and cultural influence beyond during the final decades of the 19th century
  • Texas Independence

    Texas Independence

    They declared freedom from Mexico because the Americans and some of the Mexicans living there did not like the laws Mexico set.
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    The Guilded Age

    It refers to a time where everything looked good and clean on the outside but on the inside corruption ran rampant.
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    Reconstruction

    The time period following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and bring in 4 million freed people into the United States.
  • Lincoln's Death

    Lincoln's Death

    Jon Wilkes Booth assassinates Abraham Lincoln sparking a change in the country that is met with extreme grief.
  • 14th Ammendment

    14th Ammendment

    Granted Citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans who were freed during the Civil War
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    It promised people the right to vote no matter their race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    Armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army
  • Assassination of President Garfield

    Assassination of President Garfield

    He was assassinated 4 months into his presidency by Charles J. Guiteau who wanted revenge on Garfield for an imagined political debt.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Allowed the president to subdivide Native American landholdings into allotments.
  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    The United States army killing the Lakota Indians
  • Carnegie Steel Founded

    Carnegie Steel Founded

    A Pittsburgh steel company primarily founded by Andrew Carnegie to manage business at steel mills in the late 19th century.
  • Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    She was arrested for alleged role in a coup and charged tried with treason while on house arrest she agreed to dissolve the monarchy.
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    Progressivism

    A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States of America
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Upheld racial segregation laws for public spaces as long as they had equal quality.
  • Explosion of USS Maine

    Explosion of USS Maine

    The sinking of this ship and yellow journalism contributed heavily to the Spanish- American war.
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    The Spanish-American was an armed conflict that began in the aftermath of the explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba
  • The Jungle Written

    The Jungle Written

    This novel shows the hardships that immigrants faced in the United States as well as the horrendous working conditions of the era as well as the poor quality of meat produced in factories
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    Teddy Roosevelt

    He became president after the assassination of McKinley which caused a problem for monopolies especially after his reelection.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    A deadly industrial fire the occurred in Manhattan and lead to many building codes and new technology being but into use to prevent such a disaster from happening again.
  • Trust-Busting/breakup of Standard Oil

    Trust-Busting/breakup of Standard Oil

    The use of legislation to breakup trust and monopolies. Standard oil was dissolved in 1911 but John D. Rockefeller had enough shares in the side companies that it created that it did not matter much.
  • Prohibition Protest

    Prohibition Protest

    They where marches on protest that wanted the sale of alcohol to resume
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    The U.S. finished the project two years ahead schedule after taking main construction responsibility in 1904. It cuts the travel distance of ships in third by allowing them to go through the land using a lock system
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    An act that prohibited the sale of goods from factories that employed children under the age of 14.
  • Passing of the 19th Amendment

    Passing of the 19th Amendment

    This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in elections