U.S. History 1877-2008

By JamesU24
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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 willingly settle on land in the west.

  • 13th Amendment

    Abolished Slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship and Due Process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all Male Citizens

  • Telephone Invented

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    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 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.

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness.
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    Progressive Era

    1. Muckrakers
    2. Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    3. The great Migration
    4. NAACP
    5. Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)

  • Klondike Gold Rush

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"

  • USS Maine Explodes

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

  • Hawaii Annexed

    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

  • 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair 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 sales 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 US Senators

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Established the federal reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry.

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassinated

    Ferdinand was assassinated, starting Word War 1
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    World War 1

    1. Alvin York
    2. Homefront
    3. MAIN ( Causes of War)
    4. Sussex Pledge
    5. American Expeditionary Forces

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Parks Systems Created

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    The telegram was intercepted by the British, warned the US of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • United States Enters WW1

    On the Allied side

  • Bolshevik Revolution

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

  • 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 WW1, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Peace treaty that ended WW1, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize.

  • 18th Amendment

    Prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal.

  • 19th Amendment

    Women are given the right to vote
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    Roaring Twenties

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

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Was 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

    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
    4. Court Packing
    5. Eleanor Roovevelt

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roovevelt Elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Established

  • 20th Amendment

    Adjusted the dates of the Presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    Repeals the 18th Amendment and the prohibition ends

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Established

  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Established

  • 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.

  • Hitler invades Poland

    Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WW2
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    World War 2

    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 WW2

  • "D-Day" - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bill

    Gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • "Little Boy" is Dropped on Japan

    The atomic bomb, Little Boy, is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan.

  • "Fat Man" Dropped in Japan

    The atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending the War

  • United Nations Formed

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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 had been elected President twice from being elected again

  • Truman Doctrine

    US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airshaft

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War 2

  • 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

  • Rosenberg Trial

  • First H-Bomb Detonated

    by the united States

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th amendment.

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation.
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    Vietnam War

  • Polio Vaccine Invented

    Invented by Jonas Salk

  • 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

  • Berlin Wall Built

    Prevented the people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • MLK "I Have a Dream" Speech

    Delivered his famous speech at a march in Washington

  • John F. Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act

    Made discrimination against 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

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

    Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the first amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.

  • First Man on Moon

  • Kent State University Shooting

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    End of Cold War

    1. OPEC
    2. Sandra Day O'Connor
    3. Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 4.AIDS Epidemic
    4. Star Wars (Not the Movies)

  • Pentagon Paper 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 educational programs

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the President's right to send troops to battle without congressional approval.

  • Watergate Scandal

    Leads to Nixon's resignation

  • Fall of Saigon

    Marks the end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

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    1990s- 21st Century

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

  • Fall of the USSR

    Official end of the cold war

  • NAFTA

    Created free trade between Mexico, US, and Canada.

  • 9/11

    The attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

  • USA Patriot Act

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

  • Hurricane Katrina