History Timeline

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    Manifest Destiny

    American settlers expand across North America
  • Sioux Protest

    Sioux Protest

    Protest that white settlers are on the Great Plains are driving away Buffalo
  • Emancipation Proclamation

    Emancipation Proclamation

    Granted freedom to Slaves in the Confederate States
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    Reconstruction

    Rebuilding after the Civil War
  • 14th Amendment Passed

    14th Amendment Passed

    Granted all citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    That all US citizen shall be allowed to vote no matter what race or color you are
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    Gilded Age

    Era of Economic growth in North and Western United States
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    US Imperialism

    Economic, Military, Culture, influence of US
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    The US Calvary vs different tribes that came together that where Indians. Fought on ridges and bluffs and ravines at Little Bighorn
  • Railroad Strikes

    Railroad Strikes

    It was happened when Ohio had cut wages for the third time in the same year
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Allowed Federal Government to break up Tribal Lands
  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    The Slaughter of approximately 150-300 Lakota Indians by the US Army. Efforts to Repress the Plains Indians
  • Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    She gave up Hawaii to the United States since business men wanted it for sugar
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    Landmark decision of the U.S Supreme Court that upheld segregation laws for public facilities
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    Progressivism

    Downfall of strong corporations
  • Explosion Of USS Maine

    Explosion Of USS Maine

    An America Battleship exploded sitting in the Havana Harbor, killing two officers and 266 enlisted men
  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War

    An armed conflict between Spain and the United States. Started after one of our Ships had been sunk
  • Carnegie Steel Founded

    Carnegie Steel Founded

  • Trust Busting/ Breakup of Standard Oil

    Trust Busting/ Breakup of Standard Oil

    Trust busting was developed to stop large corporations or monopolies
  • Building of Panama Canal

    Building of Panama Canal

    Panama Canal was built to lower the distance cost. Ships could now carry cargo from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans faster
  • The Jungle Written

    The Jungle Written

    Tells about the harsh and conditions that the immigrants in the United States lived
  • Meat Inspection Act

    Meat Inspection Act

    Made it to where meat was slaughtered and processed under strictly regulations
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Was the deadliest industrial disaster of New York City, it was burned down and killed 145 factory workers
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    It limited a child working hours
  • Passing of 19th Amendment

    Passing of 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment allowed women the right to vote
  • Prohibition Protest

    Prohibition Protest

    Ban of the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages