Statue of liberty

Final Timeline

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    Manifest Destiny

    Cultural believe Americans were destined by God to expand the US
  • The Fall of the Alamo

    The Fall of the Alamo

    The Mexicans win and kill all the Texen soldiers, women, and children.
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    Gilded Age

    An era of rapid economic growth in the Northern United States
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    Reconstruction

    Rebuilding America after the American Civil War
  • 15th Amendment Passed

    15th Amendment Passed

    Granted African American men the right to vote
  • 14th Amendment Passed

    14th Amendment Passed

    Granted citizenship to everyone born in the United States which included former slaves recently freed
  • Ulysses S. Grant elected President

    Ulysses S. Grant elected President

    Elected the 18th President of the United States
  • Transcontinental Railroad finished

    Transcontinental Railroad finished

    Leland Stanford drove the last spike to finish the railroad
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    U.S. Imperialism

    America was expanding and adopting new countries
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of General George Armstrong Custer
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands
  • Jane Addams opens Hull House

    Jane Addams opens Hull House

    a place where the working-class women could go and learn new skills
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    Progressivism

    A time period that America was very productive and made a lot of improvements
  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    the slaughter of around 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops trying to repress the Plains Indians
  • Carnegie Steel founded

    Carnegie Steel founded

    Andrew Carnegie finished constructing his first steel mill, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works which began the start of his steal monopoly
  • The overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    The overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Angry businessmen and sugar planters forced Queen Liliuokalani off her thrown
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    It kept blacks separate but now they can be equal
  • Explosion of the USS Maine

    Explosion of the USS Maine

    The USS Maine mysteriously exploded by who knows what. The US blamed the Spanish and thus began the Spanish American War
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    A war caused because America called the Cubans free and someone blew up the USS Maine
  • The Jungle Written

    The Jungle Written

    a book about health hazards in a meat packing plant
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    A fire that killed 145 workers caused/made worse by building code violations.
  • The building of the Panama Canal

    The building of the Panama Canal

    built by Theodore Roosevelt to help shipping time
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    prevented you from selling anything if you had it made by children under 14
  • Prohibition Protests

    Prohibition Protests

    Men couldn't live without alcohol so if they didn't protest they just steal it and drink anyway
  • 19th Amendment Passed

    19th Amendment Passed

    women gain the right to vote