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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence was signed
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Constitution written
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Bill of Rights ratified
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Homestead Act
Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
13th Amendment ratified
Abolished Slavery in the US -
14th Amendment ratified
Citizenship and due process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment ratified
Voting for all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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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
Ensured railroads 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
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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
2- Initiative, Referendum, Recall
3- The Great Migration
4- NAACP
5- Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized segregation, established “separate but equal” -
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Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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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 -
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Panama Canal Built
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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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 sale of medicines -
NAACP Founded
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Dollar Diplomacy
Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America -
16th Amendment ratified
Established the federal income tax -
17th Amendment ratified
Direct election of U.S. Senators -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
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Federal Reserve Act
Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry -
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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
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National Parks System created
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Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
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The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
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Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war
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Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war
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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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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 -
18th Amendment ratified
Prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal -
Treaty of Versailles
Peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize -
19th Amendment ratified
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 uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
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American Indian Citizenship Act
Granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
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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 -
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Dust Bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
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20th Amendment ratified
Adjusted the dates of the presidential terms -
21st Amendment ratified
Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends -
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
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Social Security Act
Established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families -
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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 -
Executive Order 9066
Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII -
G.I. Bill
Gives military veterans financial and educational benefits -
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 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
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Marshall Plan
Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
NATO established
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Civil Rights Era
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Korean War
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Interstate Highway Act
Authorized the building of a national highway system -
USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
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End of the Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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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 -
Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990s-21st Century