U.S. History 1877-2008

By emma.janek
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Early American History

  • Homestead Act

    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

  • 15th Amendment

    voting for all male citizens
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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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

  • 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

    1. Theodore Roosevelt
    2. Rough Riders
    3. Foreign Policy
    4. Immigration Quotas
    5. Yellow Journalism

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • 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

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

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

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

  • 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

  • Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war

  • Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

  • 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
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    Roaring Twenties

    1. Social Darwinism
    2. The Red Scare
    3. Assembly Line
    4. Return to Normalcy
    5. Harlem Renaissance

  • 19th Amendment

    women are given the right to vote

  • 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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    Great Depression

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

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • 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 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

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • 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

  • United Nations Formed

  • 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)

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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

  • Korean War

  • 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

  • Rosenberg 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

  • Interstate Highway Act

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

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

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • First Man on the Moon

  • 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

  • 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

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

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    Iran Hostage Crisis

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    Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century