U.S. History 1887-2008

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    Early American History

    Declaration of Independence Signed (July 4th, 1776)
    Constitution written (September 17th, 1787)
    Bill of Rights ratified (December 15th, 1791)
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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead act

    provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • Amendments

    13th- abolished slavery
    14th- citizenship and due process
    15th- voting for all male citizens

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    Big five (Rockefeller/Carnegie, captains of industry vs robber barons, philanthropy, monopoly, jane addams, laissez faire)
    Hull house founded
    Klondike gold rush
    Chinese exclusion act
    interstate commerce act
    dawes act
    pendleton civil service act

  • Sherman antitrust act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

    Muckrakers
    Initiative referendum recall
    the great migration
    naacp
    immigration issues
    the jungle by upton sinclair is publishes
    naacp founded
    national parks system created
    16th amendment- established the federal income tax
    17th amendment- direct election of u.s. senators
    sherman antitrust act
    meat inspection act
    pure food and drug act
    federal reserve act

  • plessy v ferguson

    legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"
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    Imperialism

    Teddy Roosevelt
    Rough Riders
    Foreign Policy
    Immigration Quotas
    Yellow journals
    USS Maine
    Hawaii is annexed
    Panama canal built
    Open door policy
    Roosevelt corollary
    Dollar diplomacy
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    World War I

    No Man's Land
    Foreign Alliances
    Alvin York
    homefront
    M.A.I.N.
    sussex pledge
    american expeditionary forces
    Franz assassinated
    Lusitania
    Zimmerman telegram
    US WW1 allied side
    Bolshevik revolution
    Argonne forest
    Germany surrenders
    WW'S 14 Points
    Treaty of Versailles
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    Roaring Twenties

    Jazz
    Airplane pilot traveled
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    Great Depression

    Loss of Jobs
    Herbert Hoover is a bad president
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    World War II

    Stalin
    Hitler
    Winston Churchill
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    Early Cold War

    Containment- Stopping the spread of communism.
    Arms Race/Space Race- Sputnik rocket
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Russia's government
    Communism-
    Domino Theory-
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    United Nations formed

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
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    Berlin Airlift

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    NATO Established

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    Civil Rights Era

    Martin Luther King Jr
    I Have a Dream speech
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    Korean War

  • 22nd Amendment

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

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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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    USSR launches sputnik

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Tet Offensive

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved the voting age from 21 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