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1090
Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
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1094
Panama Canal Built
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early American History
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Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution written
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Bill of Rights ratified
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Civil war/Reconstruction
1869: Transcontinental Railroad Completed
1876: Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell -
Homestead Act (1862)
provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery -
14th Amendment
citizenship & due process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
voting for all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
1-Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
2-Philanthropy
3-Monopoly
4-Jane Addams
5-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
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness -
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The Progressive Era
1.Muckrakers
2.Initiative, Referendum, Recall
3.The Great Migration
4.NAACP
5.Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) -
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
outlawed business monopolies -
Plessy v. Ferguson
legalized segregation, established “separate but equal” -
USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
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Imperialism
1.Theodore Roosevelt
2.Rough Riders
3.Foreign Policy
4.Immigration Quotas
5.Yellow Journalism -
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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Open Door Policy
initiated free trade with China -
Roosevelt Corollary
an addition to the Monroe Doctrine -
Roosevelt Corollary
an addition to the Monroe Doctrine -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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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
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Dollar Diplomacy
Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America -
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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World War I
1.Alvin York
2.Homefront
3.M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
4.Sussex Pledge
5.American Expeditionary Forces -
Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System created
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Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
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The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
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Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war
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Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war
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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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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 -
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Roaring Twenties
1.Social Darwinism
2.The Red Scare
3.Assembly Line
4.Return to Normalcy
5.Harlem Renaissance -
Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
1925: Scopes Monkey Trial
1927: Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris -
American Indian Citizenship Act
granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
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Stock Market Crash
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Great Depression
1.Hoovervilles
2.The New Deal
3.Causes of the Great Depression (5)
4.Court Packing
5.Eleanor Roosevelt -
Dust Bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
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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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World War II
1.Island Hopping
2.Liberation of Concentration Camps
3.Dwight Eisenhower
4.Douglas MacArthur
5.Chester W. Nimitz
6.Navajo Code Talkers
7.Tuskegee Airmen
8.Flying Tigers
9.The Manhattan Project
10.Rosie the Riveter -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII -
“D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy
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G.I. Bill
gives military veterans financial and educational benefits -
The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)
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The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
1.Containment
2.Arms Race/Space Race
3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
4Communism
5.Domino Theory -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Interstate Highway Act
authorized the building of a national highway system -
USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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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 the Cold War
- OPEC
- Sandra Day O’Connor
- Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
- AIDS Epidemic
- Star Wars (NOT the movies)
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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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
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Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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Camp David Accords
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990's-21st Century
- Barack Obama
- al-Qaeda
- No Child Left Behind
- President Clinton’s Impeachment
- Presidential Election of 2000
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Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
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17th Amendment
direct election of U.S. Senators -
18th Amendment
prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal -
19th Amendment
women are given the right to vote -
20th Amendment
adjusted the dates of the presidential terms -
21st Amendment
repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends -
22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States
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16th Amendment
established the federal income tax -
Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
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USA PATRIOT Act
tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism -
Hurricane Katrina