U.S. History: 1887-2008

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    Early American History

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  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

    September 17, 1787:
  • 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

    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

    Rockefeller/Carnegie:engines of capitalism,Rockefeller=very cruel and mean Carnegie= nice businessman.
    Philanthropy:voluntary giving by individuals or groups to promote the common good
    Monopoly: dominate a sector or industry.
    Jane Addams:peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America. (Poor and social reform)
    Laissez-Faire:policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.
  • 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
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

    Muckrakers: journalists in the Progressive Era in the United States who exposed established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
    I,R,R: voters can adopt a change in law (an initiative), disapprove a law passed by the Legislature (a referendum), or remove an elected official from office (a recall)
    The Great Migration:movement of 6 million African Americans
    NAACP: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    Immigration Issues: minority group=resemble a society's majority group
  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

    1896-1899
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
  • USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

  • Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

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    Imperialism

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China
  • Panama Canal Built

    1904-1914
  • Roosevelt Corollary

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

  • 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

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America
  • 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
  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War I

    Alvin York:the most decorated United States Army soldiers
    Homefront:the people who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war
    M.A.I.N. Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination.
    Sussex Pledge Germany to the United States unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning
    American Expeditionary Forces formation of the United States Army on the Western Front
  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Parks System created

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

  • Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S.

  • Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war

  • 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
  • Treaty of Versailles

    peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize
  • 18th Amendment

    prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
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    Roaring Twenties

    Social Darwinism biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest
    The Red Scare widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
    Assembly Line workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
    Return to Normalcy return to the way of life before World War I
    Harlem Renaissance intellectual revival of African American art and literature centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s.
  • 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 by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression

    Hoovervilles shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless(Herbert Hoover)
    The New Deal series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Causes of the Great Depression Stock Market Crash, Bank Failures, less purchases, dust bowl, credit
    Court Packing legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices
    Eleanor Roosevelt: First lady expanded roles for women/ activism
  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
  • 21st Amendment

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

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

  • Social Security Act

    established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families
  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War II

    1. Hopping from island to island utilizing the land
    2. April 11, 1945, red army
    3. general in the Army and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force
    4. general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II
    5. commanded all land and sea forces
    6. Navajo tribe members who used their language as code
    7. African-American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II
    8. Volunteer Group airforce 9.first nuclear bombs
    9. representing the women who worked in factories
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII
  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bill

    gives military veterans financial and educational benefits
  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)

  • United Nations formed

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)

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    Early Cold War

    Containment: Keeping communism out
    Arms Race/Space Race:Race against soviets on arms
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics:USSR
    Communism:political and economic system that seeks to create a classless society in which the major means of production, such as mines and factories, are owned and controlled by the public.
    Domino Theory:If one country fell the communism it's surrounding neighbors would soon fall due to their demand to gain more power.
  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II
  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Interstate Highway Act

    authorized the building of a national highway system
  • USSR launches Sputnik

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century