history timeline

  • Period: 1400 to

    Expansionism & Imperialism

    The Age of Imperialism is typified by the colonization of the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries, as well as the expansion of the United States, Japan, and the European powers during the late 19th and early 20th century
  • “E Pluribus Unum”

    the motto proposed for the first great seal of the united states
  • Declaration of Independence

    announced the United State independent from Britain
  • U.S. Constitution

    established us national government and laws, giving everyone basic human rights
  • 16th Amendments

    lay and collect taxes on income
  • Bill of Rights

    the 10 amendments of the United States
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    Political Machines

    In the politics of representative democracies, a political machine is a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives money, and political jobs and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.
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    Susan B. Anthony

    Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work
  • Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles : Liberty, Egalitarianism, Individualism, Populism, and Laissez-faire.

    equality was the great political and social idea
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    Tenement

    built to house immigrants that arrived
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    Alfred Thayer Mahan

    the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century
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    Sanford B. Dole

    president of Hawaii
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    Jane Addams

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    Gen. John J. Pershing

    general
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    ida B. Wells

    American journalist, activist and researcher
  • Homestead Act

    any adult or citizen who never fought against the us could claim 160 acres of land
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    W. E. B. DuBois

    American sociologist
  • Eminent Domain

    the right of the government to expropriate private property for public use
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    Upton Sinclair

    American writer
  • social Darwinism

    The central tenet of the Social Darwinist philosophy states that some human beings and races are better than others, thus natural selection should be recognized as a mechanism of genetic cleansing.
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    settlement House Movement

    reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked 1920
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    Tin Pan Alley

    efers to the physical location of the New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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    Marcus Garvey

    Jamaican activist
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    Alvin York

    also known as Sergeant York, was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers
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    Homestead Strike 1892

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    Klondike Gold Rush

    discovery of gold
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    Spanish-American War

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    Charles A. Lindbergh

    American aviator
  • Muckraker

    a group of American writers identified with pre-world war 1 reform
  • establishment of the National Park System

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    Harlem Renaissance

    The Harlem Renaissance was a period of rich cross-disciplinary artistic and cultural activity among African Americans
  • 18th Amendments

    prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes”
  • 19th Amendments

    women can vote
  • Nativism

    policy protecting the interests of native-born
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    Teapot Dome Scandal

    The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G
  • “In God We Trust”

    us motto that was adopted and replaced the 1776 motto
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    Henry Ford

    created the Model T in 1908 and went on to develop the assembly line mode of production, which revolutionized the automotive industry.
  • 17th Amendments

    us shall be composed of two senators from each state