U.S. History: 1877-2008

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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.
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
  • 13 amendment

    abolished slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War
  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)- by 1870, 25 million people migrated to the US.
  • 15th Amendment

    African American men the right to vote.
  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    social darwinism- the idea that certain people are more powerful then others which is why there is racism and imperialism.
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    awarded government jobs based on merit.
  • Dawes Act

    gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively.
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business.
  • Hull House Chicago

    Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
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    The Progressive Era

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

    Alaska discovered gold and everyone wanted it
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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    Imperialism

    NAACP
    Muckrakers- exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt through magazines.
  • USS Maine

    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
  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China
  • Panama Canal Built

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
  • 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.
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

    The Jungle was a way to expose poor conditions in the Chicago stockyards.
  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America.
  • NAACP Founded

    largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation.
  • Assembly Line

    the assembly line was a way for work to get done more efficiently and faster.
  • 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

    Red scare- occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement.
    The Great Migration- Midwest and West faced a shortage of industrial laborers so many migrated.
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated

    starting World War I
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    German submarine sunk Lusitania
  • National Parks System created

    to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany.
  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins

    causing Russian troops to exit the war
  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • 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.
  • Battle of Argonne Forest

    considered the turning point of the war
  • 18th Amendment

    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

    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

    making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
  • Stock Market Crash

    America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression after
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl intensified the crushing economic impacts of the Great Depression
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

    Roosevelt took office in the midst of the Great Depression, the worst economic crisis in U.S. history.
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

    work relief program that gave millions of young men employment on environmental projects during the Great Depression.
  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

    agency created in 1933 during the depths of the Great Depression to protect bank depositors and ensure a level of trust in the American banking system.
  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established

    independent federal regulatory agency tasked with protecting investors and capital, overseeing the stock market and proposing and enforcing federal securities laws.
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

    program created by President Roosevelt in 1935 that put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work.
  • 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

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

    Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    surprise attack by Japanese forces
  • Bataan Death March

  • Battle of Midway

    clash between the U.S. Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy that played out six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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    Early Cold War

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Vietnam War

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    End of Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century