U.S. History 1877-2008

By collin.anderson
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    Early American History

  • Declaration 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

    1. Rockefeller/Carnegie - Two of the richest people in America, one was a philanthropist and one was a robber baron
    2. Philanthropy - When someone rich does good with their money and gives a lot to charity
    3. Monopoly - When one company or business becomes so powerful that it controls the industry
    4. Jane Addams - A social activist who fought for women's rights in America
    5. Laissez-Faire - A policy of non-interference in government

  • 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 trusts to promote economic fairness
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    The Progressive Era

    1. Muckrakers - Journalists in the Progressive Era who exposed corrupt systems and politicians
    2. Initiative, Referendum, Recall - Voters can adopt a change in law, disapprove a law, or remove an elected official from office
    3. The Great Migration - When African Americans in the south moved north after being freed from slavery
    4. NAACP - The National Association for Advancement of Colored People
    5. Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) - Immigrants were forced to become more "American"

  • 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 - 26th President of The United States of America
    Rough Riders - First volunteer cavalry
    Foreign Policy - A countries strategy of dealing with other nations
    Immigration Quotas - Two percent of every nationality got visas
    Yellow Journalism - Exaggerated reporting

  • Open Door Policy

    Initiated free trade with China

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    An addition to the Monroes 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

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • NAACP is founded

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft's policy of paying for peace in America

  • 16th Amendment

    Established the federal income tax

  • 17th Amendment

    Direct election of US senators

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War 1

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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 created

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

  • The United States enters WW1 on the Allied side

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit teh 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 1, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations

  • Treaty of Versailles

    The peace treaty that ended World War 1, 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

  • American Indian Citizenship Act

    Granted citizenship to ay Native Americans born within the United States

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression

    1. Hoovervilles
    2. The New Deal
    3. Causes of the Great Depression
    4. Court Packing
    5. Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • 20th Amendment

    Adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporations (FDIC) established

  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established

  • Social Security Act

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

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WW2

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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 Manhatten Project
    10. Rosie the Riveter

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WW2

  • "D-Day" - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bill

    Gives military veterans financial and educational benifits

  • 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

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

  • The atomic bomb, "Fat Man" is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War 2

  • 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 2

  • NATO Established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg's Trials

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 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 Revolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicare Established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker vs. 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

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century