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-growth of railroads
-mining
-ranching & cattle industry boom
-farming & agricultural innovation
-conflict with Native American's -
-industrialization
-monopolies
-Andrew Carnegie
-immigration
-urbanization (growth of cities) -
-US expansion overseas
-Spanish American war 1898
-annexation of Hawaii
-Teddy Roosevelt -
-democratic reforms
-regulation of monopolies
-comsumer protection
-enviromentlal conservation
-women's suffrage: 19th amendment
-prohibition -
-lusitania
-Zimmerman telegram
-trench warfare
-Woodrow Wilson
-league of nations -
-jazz age
-flappers
-prohibition
-the "new" KKK
-Scopes trial -
-stock market crash
-high unemployment
-Herbert Hoover
-Franklin D Roosevelt's new deal -
-pearl harbor
-holocaust
-Adolf Hitler
-Europe and the pacific
-atomic bomb -
-soviet union
-communism
-containment
-arms race
-space race (sputnik 1957)
-espionage (spies) -
-Martin Luther King, Jr
-Rosa Parks
-sit ins
-Brown vs. board of education
-"I have a dream" -
-part of the cold war
-US supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam
-Lyndon B Johnson
-draft
-antiwar movement -
-inflation
-oil crisis
-conservatice resurgence
-end of cold wat
-technological revolution -
-globalization
-9/11 terrorist attack
-war on terror
-hurricane katrina
-2008 economic recession
-election of Barack Obama