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Robber Barons
Robber baron is a derogatory term of social criticism originally applied to certain wealthy and powerful 19th-century American businessmen. -
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from between 1760 to 1820 and 1840. The Industrial Revolution also led to an unprecedented rise in the rate of population growth. -
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Gilded Age
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Railroad Strikes
Referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year. This strike finally ended some 69 days later, after it was put down by unofficial militias, the National Guard, and federal troops. Because of economic problems and pressure on wages by the railroads, workers in numerous other cities, in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, into Illinois and Missouri, also went out on strike. -
Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law. The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage. -
Muckrakers
The muckrakers were reform-minded journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt. Julius Chambers of the New York Tribune could be considered to be the original muckraker. Chambers undertook a journalistic investigation of Bloomingdale Asylum in 1872, having himself committed with the help of some of his friends and his newspaper's city editor. -
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Progressive Era
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White Man's Burden
The White Man's Burden is a poem about the Philippine–American War it explains that white Europeans had the obligation to share their culture with less fortunate people. -
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Imperialism
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Socialist Party of America
During the Progressive Era, many Americans supported and spread the idea of Socialism for the people which would potentially stabilize income and equality for the citizens. It was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America which had split from the main organization in 1899. -
The Black Hand- The Mafia
The Black Hand or La Mano Nera was a type of extortion racket it was run by immigrant Sicilian and Italian gangsters. Lieut. Joseph was like the boss of The Black Hand, he had hundreds of gang members arrested or deported before he was gunned down. -
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. Japan won and forced Russia to abandon its expansionist policy in East Asia. -
The Jungle
The Jungle was Upton Sinclair's infamous 1906 novel that was a story that brought to light the problems in the meat industry. It was tied to the rise of the Progressive Era was all about getting the government more involved with society problems instead of letting society take care of itself through natural selection. -
Treaty of Portsmouth
The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, the negotiations took place in August in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The final agreement was signed in September of 1905, and it affirmed the Japanese presence in south Manchuria and Korea and ceded the southern half of the island of Sakhalin to Japan. -
Siam's Role in imperialism
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World War I
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary declared war upon Serbia after killing the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire -
Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, beginning World War I
one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand got killed Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. -
Austria-Hungary invades Russia
this movement was one of the deadliest battles of the war and it started at the beginning of world war 1 -
Germany begins naval blockade of Great Britain.
they started the naval blockade immediately on the outbreak of war in August 1914 it issued a comprehensive list of contraband but prohibited American trade with the Central powers. -
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Roaring 20s
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Prohibition Begins
it started because they tried to outlaw the production and consumption of alcohol in the United States but it had started as a religious movement in the early 19th century -
Failure of Ratification of the Treaty of Versailles
it wouldn't work from the start and it was certain to start a war. -
Presidency of Warren G. Harding
he was the 29th president of the United States he was one of the most popular presidents he signed the Budget and Accounting Act -
The Immigration Act (Johnson-Reed Act) of 1924
it was to limit the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins. -
The Wall Street Crash Sparks the Depression
this affected the great depression because it accelerated the global economic collapse of which it was also a symptom. By 1933, nearly half of America's banks had failed, and unemployment was approaching 15 million people, or 30 percent of the workforce. -
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Great Depression
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Food Riots and Banks Collapse
people started a riot in Minneapolis because they struggled with food. People started breaking windows of a grocery marked to steal food and when the owner tried stopping them he resulted with a broken arm. As the unemployed continued they blamed Mexican Americans in Los Angeles for stealing the "true" Americans jobs. -
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World War II
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World War II begins
Germany invades Poland, inciting Poland’s allies Britain and France to declare war on Germany. -
UK wins wars first sea battle
Britain ultimately won the war at sea through two strategies that had little in common with full-scale battles such as Jutland: the trade blockade and the convoy system. -
U.S. Plunged Into War
United States had no good reason to join the ww2 because it was between foreign nations but they did build their own defense. -
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Cold War
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Harry Truman orders US troops to Korea.
President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. -
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Civil Rights
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Suez Crisis.
when Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. -
Birmingham Demonstrations
To undermine the city’s system of racial segregation, with sit-ins, economic boycotts, mass protests, and marches on City Hall. -
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1970s
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U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Voting Rights Act Amendments
President Nixon signed it into law on June 22. Through this legislation, Congress extended the special provisions for five years. -
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1980s
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U.S. rescue attempt to save hostages in Tehran fails.
The mission highlighted deficiencies within the U.S. military command structure and led to the creation of the United States Special Operations Command -
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Post Cold War
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Nuclear weapons.
the United States maintained a substantial nuclear arsenal to deter potential threats from Russia. It would not forswear the first use of nuclear weapons in conflicts with other nations, such as those armed with chemical or biological weapons, and formed contingency plans for such conflicts.