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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence
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Constitution Written
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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 and due process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th amendment
voting all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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The Glided Age
Big Five
Rockefeller/ Carnegie( Captains of industry vs Robber Barons)
Philanthropy
Monopoly
Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire -
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 of the tribe owning things collectively. -
Hull House founded,first of man settlement houses
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Sherman Antitrust act
outlawed business monopolies -
Sherman Antitrust act
Outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness -
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The Progressive Ear
Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum,Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) -
Period: to
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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Plessy v Ferguson
Legalized segregation established separate but equal. -
USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the US
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Period: to
Imperialism
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Open Door Policy
Initiated free trade -
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 abulterate or misbrand meat -
Pure Food and Drug Act
regulation of the preparation of foods and sale of medicines -
NAACP founded
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Dollar Diplomacy
Traft's policy of paying for peace in Latin American -
16th Amendment
Established the federal income tax -
Federal Reserve act
Established the federal reserve,which helped stabilized the banking industry -
Panama Canal Built
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated
starting WW1 -
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World War 1
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Sinking of Lusitania
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National Parks system created
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Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British
Warned the US of a propsed ally between Mexico and germany -
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
causing Russian troops to exit the war -
Battle of Argonne Forest
considered the turning point of the war -
Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
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Treaty of Versailles
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18th Amendment
Prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal -
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Roaring Twenties
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19th Amendment
Women gave the right to vote -
Teapot Dome scandal
undercovered by the Wall Street Journal -
American Indian Citizenship act
Granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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Charles Lindergh makes history
makes history by making a nonstop solo light from New York to Paris -
Stock market crash
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Period: to
Great Deppresion
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Dust Bowl 1930-1936
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FDR elected
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Civilian Conservation Crops (CCC) established
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20th Amendment
adjusted the dates of the presidential terms -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC
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21st Amendment
repeals the 18th amendment and prohibition -
Securities and Exchange Commission SEC
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Works Progress Administration
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Social Security Act
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17th Amendment
Direct election of US Senators -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
starting WW2 -
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World War 2
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
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D-Day invasion of Normandy
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G.I Bill
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United nation formed
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The atomic bomb "little boy" dropped in Hiroshima
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Atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki
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22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president from being elected again -
Truman Doctrine
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Marshall Plan
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Berlin Airlift
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NATO established
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Koren War 1950-1953
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Civil Right Era
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H bomb detonated by the US
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Interstate Highway Act
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USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v, Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights students in United States Public Schools -
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Early Cold War
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Pentagon Papers Leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 to 18 years old -
War Powers Act
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Fall of Saigon,marks the end of the Vietnam War
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1990s-21st Century