-
Declaration of Independence Signed
-
-
Constitution Written
-
Bill of Rights ratified
-
-
Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
-
Abolished slavery
-
Citizenship & due process
-
Transcontinental railroad finished
-
Voting for all male citizens
-
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
-
- Rockefeller/ Carnegie ( Captains of industry vs. Robber Barons
- Philanthropy
- Monopoly
- Jane Addams
- Laissez-Fair
-
Prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
-
Awarded government jobs based on merit
-
Ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business
-
Gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
-
Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
-
Outlawed business monopolies
-
Outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
-
- Muckrakers
- Initiative, Referendum, Recall
- The Great Migration
- NAACP
- Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)
-
Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
-
USS Maine explodes off the coast Cuba, Starting the Spanish American War
-
Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
-
- Theodore Roosvelt
- Rough Riders
- Foreign Policy
- Immigration Quotas
- Yellow Journalism
-
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
-
initiated free trade with China
-
An addition to the Monroe Doctrine
-
The jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
-
Law that makes it ilegal to adulterate or misbrand meat
-
Regulation of the preparations of foods and the sale of medicines
-
NAACP Founded
-
Taft's policy of paying for peace in Latin American
-
Established the federal income tax
-
Direct election of U.S. senators
-
Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry
-
Panama Canal Built
-
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
-
- Alvin York
- Homefront
- M.A.I.N (Causes WWI)
- Sussex Pledge
- American Expeditionary Forces
-
Sinking of the Lusitania
-
National Parks System created
-
Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
-
The United Staes enter WWI on the Allied side
-
Bolshevik Revolution In Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war
-
Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war
-
Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
-
Statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations
-
Peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize
-
Prohibition is enacted and alcohol is legal
-
Women are given the right to vote
-
- Social Darwinism
- The Red Source
- Assembly Line
- Return to Normalcy
- Harlem Renaissance
-
Teapot Dome scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
-
Granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States
-
Scopes Monkey Trial
-
Charles Lindbergh makes history by making the nonstop solo fight from New York to Paris
-
Stock Market crash
-
- Hoovervilles
- The New Deal
- Causes of the Great Depression (5)
- Court Packing
- Eleanor Roosevelt
-
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
-
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
-
Adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
-
Repeals the 18th Amendments and prohibition ends
-
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
-
Korean War
-
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
-
Works progress Administration (WPA) established
-
Dust Bowl
-
Adolf Hitler invides Poland, Starting WWII
-
- Island Hopping
- Liberation of Concentration Camps
- Dwight Elsenhower
- Douglas MacArthur
- Chester W. Nimitz
- Navajo Code Talkers
- Tuskee Airmen
- Flying Tigers
- The Manhattan project
- Rosie the Riveter
-
Attack on Pearl Harbor
-
Battle of Midway
-
Bataan Death March
-
Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII
G.I. Bill (1944): gives military veterans financial and educational benefits -
D-Day Invasion of Normandy
-
The atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)
-
The atomic bomb " For Man" is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending WWII
-
United States formed
-
- Containment
- Arms Race/ Space Race
- The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Communism
- domino Theory
-
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
-
-
Berlin Airlift
-
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
-
NATO established
-
ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
-
-
Rosenbergs trial
-
Prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
-
First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
-
Established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families
-
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation
-
Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
-
-
-
Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
-
-
Authorized the building of a national highway system
-
1955-1956
-
USSR launvhes Sputnik
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Abolishes the poll tax
-
begins undeclared war in Vietnam
-
Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis
-
-
Eliminated literacy tests for voters
-
-
-
-
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
-
-
-
-
moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
-
protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs
-
law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
. Barack Obama
. al-Qaeda
. No Child Left Behind
. President Clinton's Impeachment
. Presidential Election Election of 2000 -
-
-
-
tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism
-