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Early American History
Homestead Act- 1830
1-10 amendments -
Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution written
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Bill of Right ratified
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Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th president of the United States
Rough Riders- member of a regiment of U.S. cavalry volunteers recruited by Theodore Roosevelt
Foreign Policy - regulation or foreigners
Immigration Quotas -limited the number of immigrants allowed entr
Yellow Journalism - language on mean speech -
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Civil War/Reconstruction
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments -
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
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15th amendment
voting for all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Gilded Age
Big five (ten)
1. Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
How different people used and came by their wealth (robber barons usually questionably and developed monopolies)
2. Philanthropy
charity and wanting to help others through money
3. Monopoly
a business with practically complete domination in a supply or commodity
4. Jane Addams
a philanthropist who established a secular settlement house
5. Laissez-Faire
less government intervention -
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
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
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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
Sherman Anti-trust Act - 1890
1. Muckrakers- reform-minded journalists who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt
2. Initiative, Referendum, Recall - power to voters
3. The Great Migration - moving pull and push factors
4. NAACP - equal rights
5. Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) - fighting over causes. -
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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Plessy v Ferguson
legalized segregation, established “separate but equal” -
SS 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
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Open Door Policy
initiated free trade with China -
Panama Canal Built
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Roosevelt Corollary
an addition to the Monroe Doctrine -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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Meat Inspection Act
law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat -
NAACP Founded
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Dollar Diplomacy
Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America -
16th admendment
established the federal income tax -
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World War I
Espionage Act - 1917
Sedition Act -1918
1. Alvin York
2. Homefront
3. MAIN
4. Sussex pledge
5. American expeditionary forces -
National Parks System created
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Roaring Twenties
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Great Depression
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17th admendment
direct election of U.S. Senators -
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World War II
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
Big Five (ten)
1. Containment
policy of keeping communist influence where it is so that It doesn't spread to America.
2. Arms Race/Space Race
A race within the cold war where both powers tried to one up the other in spaceflight capability
3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
The soviet union, communism.
4. Communism
An opposing government to America's democracy
5. Domino Theory
one political event causing similar things to happen nearby (such as communism spread) -
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End Of Cold War
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22nd admendment
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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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenberg's trial
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First H-bomb denotated 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
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Cuban Missile Crisis
The conflict between the Soviet Union and America as America found missiles in Cuba and issued a quarantine. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid established
Medicare and Medicaid were established -
Tet offensive
a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam -
Tinker v. Des Moines
defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
Pentagon Papers leaked
revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks—none of which were reported in the mainstream media. -
26th Admendment
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
Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War -
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1990's-21rst Century