U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Isabel.knapp
  • Period: to

    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Constitution Written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

  • Period: to

    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 and due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad completed

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

  • Period: to

    The Gilded Age

    Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
    Philanthropy
    Monopoly
    Jane Addams
    Laissez-Faire

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies
  • Period: to

    The Progressive Era

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation established "separate but equal"
  • Period: to

    Imperialism

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Period: to

    Roaring Twenties

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Period: to

    Early Cold War

  • Period: to

    Civil Rights Era

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Period: to

    End of the Cold War

  • Period: to

    1990s-21st Century