U.S. History 1887 - 2008

By kaitlynn_gallop
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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

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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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act: outlawed business monopolies

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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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    Imperialism

    1. Theodore Roosevelt
    2. Rough Riders
    3. Foreign Policy
    4. Immigration Quotas
    5. Yellow Journalism
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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
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    Roaring Twenties

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