U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Lucas.righetti
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    Early American History

  • Deceleration of Independence Signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil war/Reconstruction

  • Homestead act

    Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west.

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship and due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone Invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
    Philanthropy
    Monopoly
    Jane Addams
    Laissez-Faire

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act.

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    Awarded government jobs based on merit.

  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business

  • Dawes Act

    Gave individual ownership of land to native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively.

  • Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies.
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    The Progressive Era

    Muckrakers,
    Initiative, Referendum, Recall,
    The Great Migration,
    NAACP,
    Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism),
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    Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • Plessy v Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”

  • USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

  • Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

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    Imperialism

    Theodore Roosevelt,
    Rough Riders,
    Foreign Policy,
    Immigration Quotas,
    Yellow Journalism

  • Open Door Policy

    Initiated free trade with China.

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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    Panama Canal Built

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Meat Inspection Act

    Law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines.

  • NAACP Founded

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America.

  • 16th Amendment

    Established the federal income tax.

  • 17th Amendment

    Direct election of U.S. Senators.

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry.

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    WW1

    Alvin York,
    Homefront,
    M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI),
    Sussex Pledge,
    American Expeditionary Forces

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Park System created

  • Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • The United States enters 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

  • President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

    statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations

  • Treaty of Versailles

    peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize

  • 18th Amendment

    prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal

  • 19th Amendment

    Women are given the right to vote.
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    Roaring Twnties

    Social Darwinism,
    The Red Scare,
    Assembly Line,
    Return to Normalcy,
    Harlem Renaissance

  • Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • American Indian Citizenship act

    granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States

  • Scopes Monkey Trail

  • Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

  • Stock market crash

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    Great Depression

    Hoovervilles,
    The New Deal,
    Causes of the Great Depression (5),
    Court Packing,
    Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Dust bowl

  • Franklin D Roosevelt elected

  • Citizen Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • Securities and exchange commission (SEC) established

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

  • Social Security Act

    established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    WW2

    Island Hopping,
    Liberation of Concentration Camps,
    Dwight Eisenhower,
    Douglas MacArthur,
    Chester W. Nimitz,
    Navajo Code Talkers,
    Tuskegee Airmen,
    Flying Tigers,
    The Manhattan Project,
    Rosie the Riveter

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • "D-Day" - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. bill

    gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    Containment,
    Arms Race/Space Race,
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
    Communism,
    Domino Theory

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan

  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II

  • Trumine Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trail

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam war

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Interstate Highway Act

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • USSR launches SPUTNIK

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of Cold war

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon's Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st century