U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Tabiah Walwyn
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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 & due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • End of Early Cold War

    1.OPEC
    2.Sandra Day O’Connor
    3.Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
    4.AIDS Epidemic
    5.Star Wars (NOT the movies)
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    The Gilded Age

    1.Rockefeller/Carnegie- Robber Barons-viewed as having used practices to increase their wealth, captains of industry-businessmen wanting to increase their fortune to benefit the country.
    2.Philanthropy- giving money/time to assist to others needs.
    3.Monopoly-products made through one business
    4.Jane Addams- Founder of Hull House in Chicago.Helped immigrant women improve life
    5.Laissez-Faire -economic policy of letting owners of industry/business set working conditions w/o inteference.

  • 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 steeped in to regulate business

  • Dowes 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

  • Sherman Anti-trust Act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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    The Progressive Era

    1.Muckrakers-group of writers,journalists, and critics who expose political corruption
    2.Initiative-right to propose new law.Referendum-law passed by legislature.Recall-petition/vote to remove official
    3.The Great Migration-migration of African Americans in south
    4.NAACP-National Association for Advancement of colored people_fight prejudice
    5.Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)-fear and hatred of foreign born people. a policy to adopt its institutions and customs

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

    1896-1899

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
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    Imperialism

  • 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 sole of medicines

  • NAACP founded

  • 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
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    World War I

  • National Parks System created

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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    1.Containment- geopolitical strategic foreign policy
    2.Arms Race/Space Race- Cold war competition to build up armed forces and weaponry
    3.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics-confederation of Russia,Belorussia,Ukraine...
    4.Communism-revolutionary socialism
    5.Domino Theory-states if one land goes into communism then those around will

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • Truman Doctrine

    US 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

    1950-1953

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-bomb detonated by the US

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

    (1955-1956)

  • USSR launches Sputnik

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

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

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

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins the undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

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

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • 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

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • 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

  • 1990s-21st Century

    1.Barack Obama
    2.al-Qaeda
    3.No Child Left Behind
    4.President Clinton’s Impeachment
    5.Presidential Election of 2000

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

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    1990s-21st Century

  • 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