U.S. History 1877-2008

By alyssa.olchak
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstructon

  • 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

    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

    endure 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 funded, first of many settlement houses

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

    1.Muckrakers
    2.Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    3. The Great Migration
    4.NAACP
    5.Immigration Issues

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, establish "separate but equal"
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    Imperialism

  • Klondike Gold Rush

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Meat Inspection Act

    law that makes it illegal to adulterate of misbrand meat

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

  • NAACP Founded

  • 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
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    World War I

  • National Parks System created

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    Would War II

  • 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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • 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

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    Korean War

  • Rosenbergs Trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    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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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

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    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 on 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

  • Gulf 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

  • 24th Ammendment

    abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    eliminated literacy test for voters

  • Tet offensive

  • Tinker V. Des Moines

    defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public School.

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First man on the moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon papers leaked

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • 26th Ammendment

    moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Power Act

    law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • War Powers Act

    law limited the President's right to send troops to war without congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to President 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 Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century