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July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence signed
September 17, 1787: Constitution written
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1869: Transcontinental Railroad Completed
1876: Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
13th Amendment: abolished slavery
14th Amendment: citizenship & due process
15th Amendment: voting for all male citizens
Plessy v. Ferguson: legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
Homestead Act (1862): provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890): outlawed business monopolies -
Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
Philanthropy Monopoly Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire
1889: Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
1896-1899: Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
Interstate Commerce Act (1887):
Dawes Act (1887): gave individual ownership of land to native
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883): -
Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)
1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
1909: NAACP Founded
1916: National Parks System created
16th Amendment: established the federal income tax
17th Amendment: direct election of U.S. Senators
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890): outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906):
Federal Reserve Act (1914): -
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
Yellow Journalism
1898: USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
1898: Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
1904-1914: Panama Canal Built
Open Door Policy (1899): initiated free trade with China
Roosevelt Corollary (1904): an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
Dollar Diplomacy (1909): Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America -
Alvin York
Homefront
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
Sussex Pledge
American Expeditionary Forces
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
1915: Sinking of the Lusitania
1917: Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British,
1917: The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
1917: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins,
1918: Battle of Argonne Forest,
1918: Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points (1918):
Treaty of Versailles (1919): -
Social Darwinism The Red Scare Assembly Line Return to Normalcy
Harlem Renaissance
1922: Teapot Dome Scandal 1925: Scopes Monkey Trial 1927: Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop
18th Amendment: prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
19th : women are given the right to vote
20th adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
21st repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends
American Indian Citizenship Act (1924): Native Americans born within the United State -
Hoovervilles The New Deal Causes of the Great Depression (5)
Court Packing Eleanor Roosevelt
1929: Stock Market Crash
1930-1936: Dust Bowl
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
1932: (CCC) established
1933: (FDIC) established
1934: (SEC) established
1935: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Social Security Act (1935): established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families -
Social Security Act (1935): established the Social Securi1945: United Nations formed
1948: Berlin Airlift
1949: NATO established
1950-1953: Korean War
1951: Rosenbergs trial
1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
1957: USSR launches Sputnik
ty Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families
22nd Amendment:
Truman Doctrine (1947):
Marshall Plan (1948): -
Social Security Act (1935): established the Social Securi1945: United Nations formed
1948: Berlin Airlift
1949: NATO established
1950-1953: Korean War
1951: Rosenbergs trial
1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
1957: USSR launches Sputnik
ty Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families
22nd Amendment:
Truman Doctrine (1947):
Marshall Plan (1948): -
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1962: Cuban Missile Crisis1965: Medicare Medicaid established1968: Tet Offensive1971: Pentagon Papers leaked1975: Fall of Saigon marks end of the Vietnam War26th Amendment: moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old Tinker v. Des Moines :First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964): undeclared war in Vietnam War Powers Act (1973): law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval
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