U.S. History: 1887-2008

By Josiah.Utubor
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence Signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights

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    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 & 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

    1- Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
    2- Philanthropy
    3- Monopoly
    4- Jane Addams
    5- 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 instead of the tribe owning things collectively

  • Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

    1- Muckrakers
    2- Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    3- The Great Migration
    4- NAACP
    5- Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • 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

    1-Theodore Roosevelt
    2- Rough Riders
    3- Foreign Policy
    4- Immigration Quotas
    5- Yellow Journalism

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Meat Inspection Act

    law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat

  • NAACP Founded

  • 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

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

  • Panama Canal Built

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War I

    1- Alvin York
    2- Homefront
    3- M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
    4- Sussex Pledge
    5- American Expeditionary Force

  • 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

  • Bolsheviki 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, an a League of Nations

  • 18th Amendment

    prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Peace treaty that ended World war
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    Roaring Twenties

    1- Social Darwinism
    2- The Red Scare
    3- Assembly Line
    4- Return to Normalcy
    5- Harlem Renaissance

  • 19th amendment

    woman 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

    1- Hoovervilles
    2- The new deal
    3- causes of the great depression
    4- court packing
    5- Eleanor Rooselvelt

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation corps established

  • Federal deposit insurance corporation established

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition

  • Securities and Exchange commission established

  • Works Progress Administration 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- Island hopping
    2- liberation of concentration camps
    3- dwight eisenhower
    4- douglas macarthur
    5- chester w. nimitz
    6- navajo code talkers
    7- tuskegee airmen
    8- flying tigers
    9- the manhattan project
    10- rosie the riveter

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • D-Day - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bill

    gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1- Containment
    2- Arms Race/ Space Race
    3- The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
    4- Communism
    5- Domino Theory

  • The atomic bomb, "Little Boy" is dropped in Hiroshima , Japan

  • The atomic bomb, "Fat Man" is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan ending World War II

  • 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

  • Sweatt V. Painter

    ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Civil Rights Era

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg trial

  • First h-bomb detonated by the united states

  • Korean War

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Brown v. Board of education of topeka

    overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • jones salk invents the polio vaccine

  • Montgomery bus boycott after Rosa Parks´ arrest

  • Interstate Highway Act

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • ussr launches sputnik

  • Little Rock nine integrated into all white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin wall built to prevent people from leaving communist east berlin

  • cuban missile crisis

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tx

  • Martin Luther King´s ¨I have a dream speech¨ at the march on washington

  • gulf of tonkin resolution

    begins undeclared war in vietnam

  • 24th amendment

    abolishes poll tax

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • medicare and medicaid established

  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • tet offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil rights act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing

  • First man on the moon

  • tinker v. des moines

    defined the first amendment rights for students in the united states public schools

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

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    End of the Cold War

  • pentagon papers leaked

  • 26th amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old

  • Title IX

    protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • war powers act

    law limited the presidents right to send troops to battle without congressional approval

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • fall of saigon, marks the end of the vietnam war

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Centuryt