U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Demi.Gonzales
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of independance 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

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for All Male Citizens

  • 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

  • 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

    -Muckrakers
    -Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    -The Great Migration
    -NAACP
    -Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • Plessy v. Fergusson

    Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"

  • Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

  • USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

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    Imperialism

    -Theodore Roosevelt
    -Rough Riders
    -Foreign Policy
    -Immigration Quotas
    -Yellow Journalism

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • Meat Inspection Act

    law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

  • NAACP Founded

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • 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

  • Panama Canal Built

    1904-1914

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War I

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

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Parks System created

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

  • 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

  • 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 I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations

  • 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

    -Social Darwinism
    -The Red Scare
    -Assembly Line
    -Return to Normalcy
    -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

    -Hoovervilles
    -The New Deal
    -Causes of the Great Depression (5)
    -Court Packing
    -Eleanor Roosevelt
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    Dust Bowl

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • 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

  • Social Security Act

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

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War II

    -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

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • G.I. Bill

    gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • 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

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

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO Established

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Korean War

  • Rosenburgs Trial

  • 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 Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam.

  • Medicare and Medicaid Established

  • Tet Offensive

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship and Due Process

  • 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

    -Barack Obama
    -al-Qaeda
    -No Child Left Behind
    -President Clinton’s Impeachment
    -Presidential Election of 2000
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    Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism

  • Hurricane Katrina