U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Lakotah.Pangus
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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 (1862): 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

  • Rockefeller/Carnegie and Robber Glided Age

    Robber was being accused of controlling the market by intentionally limiting the productions of goods and raising prices.

  • Philanthropy

    (uncountable)
    charity; the practice of helping the poor and those in need especially by giving money

  • Laissez-Faire

    The government doesn't interfere with the economy, it lets the citizens do what they want to do.

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Glided Age

  • 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

  • Monopoly

    A situation in which a single company or individual owns all (or almost all) of the market for a product or service; stifles competition, promotes high prices.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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    The Progressive Era

  • Sherman Antitrust Act (1890): outlawed business monopolies

  • Plessy v. Ferguson: legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • 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

  • Jane Addams- Progressive Era

    1860-1935. Founder of Settlement House Movement. First American Woman to earn Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 as president of Women's Intenational League for Peace and Freedom. Founder of the social work profession.
    A social reformer who opened and operated the largest settlement house in Chicago called Hull House.

  • 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

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War 1

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Parks System created

  • Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

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

  • 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

  • 19th Amendment

    women are given the right to vote

  • Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

  • 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

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    Great Depression

  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
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    World War 2

  • Containment

    A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • Communism

    A political system that pairs a socialist or command economy with a totalitarian government.

  • 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

  • Domino Theory

    A foreign policy during the 1950s to 1980s that states if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then surrounding countries would follow.

  • Sweatt v. Painter

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • Korean War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

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    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • 24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • 26th Amendment

  • Title IX

  • War Powers Act

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Arms Race/Space Race

    The Space Race was considered an important part of the Cold War it showed the world which country had the best science, technology, and economic system.

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century