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July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence signed
September 17, 1787: Constitution written
December 15, 1792: Bill of Rights ratified -
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
1869-1899: Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Dawes Act (1887)
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)
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
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 uncovered by Wall Street Journal
1925: Scopes Monkey Trial
1927: Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop flight from New York to Paris
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
American Indian Citizenship Act 1924 -
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: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
1933: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
1934: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
1935: Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
Social Security Act (1935) -
Island Hopping
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
The Manhattan Project
Rosie the Riveter
Executive Order 9066 (1942): incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII
G.I. Bill (1944): gives military veterans financial and educational benefits
Interstate Highway Act (1956): authorized the building of a national highway system -
Containment
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory
1945: 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
22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Marshall Plan (1948) -
1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957: Little Rock Nine
1961: Bay of Pigs
1961: Berlin Wall built
1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
1969: First Man on the Moon
24th Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Title IX
Sweatt v. Painter
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Oct 16-28 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
July 30, 1965: Medicare and Medicaid established
Jan 31- Sept 23, 1968: Tet Offensive
June 1971: Pentagon Papers leaked
April 30, 1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
July 1, 1971 26th Amendment: moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
Tinker v. Des Moines: defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964): begins undeclared war in Vietnam
War Powers Act (1973) -
1970: Kent State University shooting
1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
1978: Camp David Accords
1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
1979: Three Mile Island Disaster
1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair -