U.S HIstory: 1877-2008

By alyssa.oneal
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence was signed

  • Constitution was written

  • Bill of Rights was ratified

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    Civil War/ Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    provided 160 acres to anyone who was 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

    1- Rockefeller/ Carnegie
    2- Philanthropy
    3- Monopoly
    4- Jane Addams
    5- Laissez- Faire

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled chinese laborors, first US 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

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

  • Hull House founded

    first of many settlement houses

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies

  • Sherman Anti-trust act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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    The Progressive Era

    1- Muckrackers
    2- Initiative, referendum, recall
    3- The Great Migration
    4- NAACP
    5- Immigration issues

  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    legalized segregation and it made "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

    1- Theodore Roosevelt
    2- Rough riders
    3- Foreign Policy
    4- Immigration Quotas
    5- Yellow journalism

  • Klondike Gold Rush

    1896-1899

  • Open door policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • 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 is founded

  • 16th Amendment

    established the federal income tax

  • Dollar diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • 17th amendment

    direct election of US senators

  • Federal reserve act

    established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • Panama Canal Built

    1904-1914

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War 1

    1- Alvin York
    2- Homefront
    3- M.A.I.N
    4- Sussex pledge
    5- American expeditionary forces

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National parks system is created

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

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

  • 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 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

  • american indian citizenship act

    granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

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

  • Stock Market Crash

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    The Great Depression

    1- Hoovervilles
    2- The new deal
    3- causes of the great depression
    4- court packing
    5- elanor roosevelt
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    World War 2

    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

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • 20th amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • 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

  • Dust Bowl

    1930-1936

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • 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

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)

  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1- Containment
    2- Arms Race/Space Race
    3- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4- Communism
    5- Domino Theory

  • 22nd amendment

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

  • truman doctrine

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • marshall plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Sweatt v. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

    1950-1953

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    The Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • interstate highway act

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

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

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

    1979-1981

  • Iran Contra Affair

    1985-1987
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    1990's- 21st Century

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax