final timeline

  • Louisiana purchase

    Louisiana purchase

    Thomas Jefferson purchased land before Spain did it was 828,000 square miles.we bought it from France
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    manifest destiny

    Americans took over the native Americans land to expand and build ore cities
  • the homestead act of 1862

    the homestead act of 1862

    you could acquire land by the government and have full ownership of it.
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    reconstruction

    it was the time period after the civil war. United States faced a lot of challenges during this time frame.
  • 14th amendment

    14th amendment

    African Americans got freedom and other civil rights.
  • 15th amendment

    15th amendment

    African Americans got the right to vote
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    Guilded age

    time of rapid economic growth for the untied states.
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    U.S Imperialism

    united states took land over that was owned by other people.
  • freedom Bureau

    freedom Bureau

    it was a government agency that was operated after the civil war. it helped education and freed slaves that were still enslaved.
  • battle of little big horn

    battle of little big horn

    native american forces defeat United state army and the natives where lead by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. the battle took place near Montana. the united states wanted the land for gold purposes and tried to push the natives out but the native Americans won.
  • railroad strikes

    people didn't like when they cut the wages down. they had to cut wages down material became more expensive and more people needed jobs.
  • dawes act

    dawes act

    regulated land rights on tribal territories
  • wounded knee creek massacre

    wounded knee creek massacre

    united state army slaughtered Lakota Indians in southwestern Dakota. what caused it was the reservation police tried to arrest sitting bull. it made the tribe mad they started to attack.
  • Carnegie steel founded

    Carnegie steel founded

    it was a industry produced by Andrew Carnegie. Andrew built plants all over the united states. Andrew created a way to produce steel way faster than anyone else and we found ways to use it.
  • over throw of queen Liliuokalani

    over throw of queen Liliuokalani

    the Hawaii business men wanted to become part of the united states so that there god weren't taxed to get them imported and they overthrew the government in Hawaii
  • the depression of 1892

    the depression of 1892

    The economic drop in the united states. the president was William McKinley.
  • Plessy vs ferguson

    Plessy vs ferguson

    it was a court case because blacks were not allowed to sit with the whites when they got on public transportation
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    progressivism

    widespread social activism and political reform across the united states.
  • spanish-american war

    spanish-american war

    it started off with the USS Maine which is a united stares war ship that got exploded by Spain. we went to war and we took Cuba and Philippines and couple over little islands during the war.
  • panama canal

    panama canal

    Teddy Roosevelt started it to create jobs for united states and it is a pathway between Atlantic and Pacific ocean.
  • the jungle

    the jungle

    the harsh conditions for immigrants coming to the united states.
  • triangle shirtwaist fire

    triangle shirtwaist fire

    fire broke out on a top floor of a factory all the doors were locked and the worker either had to jump or just hope for the best. this caused the united states to put building codes up and have regulations.
  • trust busting/ breaking up of Standard oil

    trust busting/ breaking up of Standard oil

    trusting busting was breaking up companies that could charge whatever they wanted, standard oil was founded by Rockefeller in 1870 and he was took to court in 1911 and all of his companies were shutdown.
  • Keating Owen child labor act

    Keating Owen child labor act

    it made it so that children under the age of 14 could not work in the factories.
  • prohibition protest

    prohibition protest

    it was the ban of alcohol in the United States.
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    it gave women right to vote.