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Timeline Of Events

By Mvr1ck
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America.
  • US Constitution

    US Constitution

    Serving as the supreme law after ratified and voted on by 55 delegates.
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    Consists of the first 10 Amendments.
  • Tenement

    Tenement

    cheap, high-rise apartment buildings that housed handfuls of families practically on top of the other.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    a party organization that recruits members by the use of tangible incentives money, and political jobs. political control known as "bossism" emerged particularly in the Gilded Age.
  • Susan B. Anthony

    Susan B. Anthony

    Activist for women's suffrage and racial discrimination. Major factor for the 19th Amendment and anti slavery.
  • Alfred Thayer Mahan

    Alfred Thayer Mahan

    United States naval officer and historian, Known as "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century."
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of land if they live on it, improve it, and pay a registration fee.
  • Eminent Domain

    Eminent Domain

    Right of government or agent to expropriate private property for public use, with compensation.
  • Homestead Strike

    Homestead Strike

    violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers in Pennsylvania
  • Klondike Gold Rush

    Klondike Gold Rush

    migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon, in north-western Canada.
  • Expansion and Imperialism

    Expansion and Imperialism

    U.S wanted to expand trade through imperialism using military force.
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    An armed conflict between the U.S and Spain because of alleged attack on a ship by Spain.
  • Settlement House Movement

    Settlement House Movement

    reformist social movement beginning in the 1880s and peaked around 1920s.
  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells

    early leader in the civil rights movement and was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    Famous novelist and social pioneer who wrote "The Jungle" exposing the meat packing industry
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    An industrialist and known for founding the model T and assembly line mode of production
  • Initiative

    Initiative

    A proposed law can, with sufficient backing, be put on the ballot in an election.
  • Referendum

    Referendum

    give the people an opportunity to approve or reject laws proposed or enacted by Legislature.
  • Recall

    Recall

    Remove an elected official from office
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    authorized national government to tax incomes
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    allowing voters to cast direct votes for U.S. senators
  • Causes of WW1

    Causes of WW1

    immediate cause of World War 1 that come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    An artificial waterway that cuts through Panama that the US used to increase availability of trade with Asia.
  • Establishment of National Park System

    Establishment of National Park System

    agency of the United States government that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational
  • Jane Addams

    Jane Addams

    second woman to receive the Peace Prize and founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    prohibited manufacture, sale, or transport of alcoholic beverages
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    Gave women right to vote
  • Harlem Renaissance

    Harlem Renaissance

    helped African American writers and artists gain control over representation of Black culture and provided them a place in Western culture.
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    Immigration Act of 1924

    limited the number of immigrants allowed into the US through a national origins quota
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl

    period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of America
  • Flying Tigers

    Flying Tigers

    First American Volunteer Group of the Republic of China Air Force formed to help oppose Japanese invasion of China
  • Navajo Code Talkers

    Navajo Code Talkers

    Marine Corps selected 29 Navajo men, the Navajo Code Talkers, who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language to send messages without fear of being intercepted and decoded by enemy forces.
  • Nuremberg Trials

    Nuremberg Trials

    held by the Allies against representatives of Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries and other crimes during World War II
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    served as the 34th president of the United States during WW2 and an important general.
  • "In God We Trust"

    "In God We Trust"

    Official motto of the US.