U.S. History: 1877-2008

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  • 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

  • citizenship & due process

  • abolished slavery

    13th Amendment

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • voting for all male citizens

    15th Amendment

  • Acts

    Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
    Interstate Commerce Act (1887): ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business
    Dawes Act (1887): gave individual ownership of land to Native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
    Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883): awarded government jobs based on merit

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
    Philanthropy
    Monopoly
    Jane Addams
    Laissez-Faire

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

    Muckrakers
    The 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

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal.”
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    Imperialism

    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

  • Acts imp.

    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
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    World War I

    Alvin York
    Homefront
    M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
    Sussex Pledge
    American Expeditionary Forces

  • world war 1

    1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
    1915: Sinking of the Lusitania
    1917: Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
    1917: The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
    1917: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war
    1918: Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war
    1918: Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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    Early American History

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • 1945: United Nations formed

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    Early Cold Wa

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    Early cold war

    Containment
    Arms Race/Space Race
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    Communism
    Domino Theory

  • 22nd Amendment

  • Truman Doctrine (1947):

  • 1948: Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan (1948)

  • 1949: NATO established

  • 1950-1953: Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • 1951: Rosenbergs trial

  • 1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

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    Vietnam War (

  • 1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • 1957: USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

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

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

  • 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis 1965: Medicare and Medicaid established 1968: Tet Offensive 1971: Pentagon Papers leaked 1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 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

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • al-Qaeda

    a network of Islamic extremists and Salafist jihadists.
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    1990s-21st Century

  • President Clinton’s Impeachment

    The impeachment of Bill Clinton occurred when Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States

  • Presidential Election of 2000

    The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election

  • No Child Left Behind

    Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
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    Barack Obama

    Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.