U.S. History: 1877-2008

By Marcus Perez

  • Declaration of independence signed.

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    Early American History

  • Constitution was written.

  • Bill of rights are ratified.

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    Civil War/ Reconstruction

    No more kids working in factories.

  • 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

  • Transitional Railroad Completed

  • 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 (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.

  • 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.

  • 1889: Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

    Outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness.
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    The Progressive era

    Muckrakers: Initiative, Referendum, Recall: The Great Migration: NAACP: Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism):

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

  • 1896-1899: Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • 1898: USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

  • 1898: Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

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    Imperialism

    Theodore Roosevelt Rough Riders Foreign Policy Immigration Quotas Yellow Journalism

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    An addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • 1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Meat Inspection Act

    Law that makes it illegal to adulterated or misbranded meat.

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines.

  • 1909: 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.

  • 1904-1914: Panama Canal Built

  • 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War 1

    Alvin York Homefront M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI) Sussex Pledge American Expeditionary Forces

  • 1915: Sinking of the Lusitania

  • 1916: National Parks System created

  • 1917: Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • 1917: The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • 1917: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

  • 1918: Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war

  • 1918: 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 Nation.

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize.
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    Roaring Twenties

    Social Darwinism The Red Scare Assembly Line Return to Normalcy Harlem Renaissance

  • 1922: Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • 1925: Scopes Monkey Trial

  • 1927: Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

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    Great Depression

    Employment is at a all time low of 45%.
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    World War 2

  • United Nations Formed

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    Early Cold War

    The containment: policy is the policy that helped South Korea and North Korea be contained from Communism. Arms race/Space Race: The Americans and the Soviets were each trying to get to space first. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Communism: North Korea and the Soviet were the main communist countries. The United States are wants communism to stay away from America. Domino Theory: Truman's policy if Vietnam fell into communism, then South Korea will also become communism.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg trial

  • First H-Bomb detonation by the United States.

  • Korean War

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    Vietnam War

  • Arms race/Space race

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    End of the Cold War

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    1990's -21st century