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    Manifest Destiny

    In 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined, by God, its advocates believed, to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase was the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars.
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    This document passed my Lincoln allowed Blacks to be free and to abolish slavery
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    Reconstruction Era

    Reconstruction, the era following the U.S. Civil War, was an effort to reunify the divided nation and integrate African Americans into society.
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Fourteenth Amendment, an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War,
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, religion
  • Rockefeller Railroad Empire

    Rockefeller Railroad Empire

    An Empire that made Rockefeller live up to his potential and boom in America Industrialization
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    Guilded Age

    In the US, the Gilded Age was an era that occurred during the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth, especially in the Northern United States and the Western United States. As American wages grew much higher than those in Europe, especially for skilled workers, the period saw an influx of millions of European immigrants.
  • Battle of Little Big Horn

    Battle of Little Big Horn

    Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull defeat the U.S. Army troops of General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near southern Montana's Little Bighorn River. At mid-day, Custer's 600 men entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Then was surrounded by Indians and absolutely slaughtered.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.
  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    was a massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people, by soldiers of the United States Army. Wikipedia
  • Carnegie Steel Founded

    Carnegie Steel Founded

    In Pittsburg PA, Carnegie Steel was founded. Later to be the most successful and useful business of all time. A all-new product that boosted American Industry
  • Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Hawaii's monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters
  • The Jungle Written

    The Jungle Written

    Story of poems wrote in 1893-1904
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    Progressivism

    This started widespread social activism and political reform across the United States.
  • Plessy V.Ferguson

    Plessy V.Ferguson

    Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    America's support the ongoing struggle by Cubans against Spanish rule, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor.
  • USS Maine Blows Up

    USS Maine Blows Up

    U.S.S. Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor and leads up to the Spanish-American War
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    U.S Imperialism

    in the early 20th century, ranging from colonies in Puerto Rico and the Philippines to protectorates in Cuba, Panama, and other countries in Latin America
  • Building of the Panama Canal

    Building of the Panama Canal

    US took over the project from France in 1904 to make a Canal so it wouldn´t have to travel all the way around South America
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford was an American auto manufacturer who created the Model and went to develop the assembly line of production, which revolutionized the world
  • Trust Busting/ Break Up Standard Oil

    Trust Busting/ Break Up Standard Oil

    Rockefeller Broke up Standard Oil because it would make him more money
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    In Greenwich Village in NY and was the deadliest fire in US history. 146 people died in the fire because there was no fire codes and nowhere to go.
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    limited children's working hours and prohibited goods produced by child labor.
  • Prohibition Protests

    Prohibition Protests

    The US made the alcohol illegal so people wanted the school and protested
  • 19th Amendment

    Women were able to vote and no matter what sex you were.