U.S. History

By EmmanuelMtz

  • Homestead Act

    A law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it.

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    A train route across the United States, finished in 1869.

  • Industrialization Begins to Boom

  • Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall

  • Telephone invented

    They come out with the first phone in 1876

  • Reconstruction Ends

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    Gilded Age

    the time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives.

  • Light Bulb Invented

    the first light bulb was made in1878

  • Third Wave of Immigration

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    The U.S. tried to get rid of the chinese people by not letting them in nomore.

  • Pendleton Act

  • Dawes Act

  • Interstate Commerce Act

  • Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth

  • Chicago's Hull House

  • Klondike Gold Rush

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.

  • How the Other Half Lives

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    Progressive Era

  • Homestead Stell Labor Strike

  • Pullman Labor Strike

  • Assasination of President McKinley

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    Theodore Roosevelt

  • The Jungle

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Model-T

  • NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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    William Howard Taft

    served as the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices.

  • 16th Amendment

    Congress has power to collect taxes

  • Federal Reserve Act

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    Woodrow Wilson

  • 17th Amendment

    Get to vote for senators

  • Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

  • Trennch Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns

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    World War 1

    The immediate cause of World War I that made the aforementioned items come into play (alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism) was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. In June 1914, a Serbian-nationalist terrorist group called the Black Hand sent groups to assassinate the Archduke.

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

    occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany.

  • National Parks System

  • Zimmerman Telegram

    was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.

  • Russian Revolution

    was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.

  • U.S. entry into WWI

    was the largest armed conflict in human history. ... Although the war began with Nazi Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939, the United States did not enter the war until after the Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941

  • 18th Amendment

    Prohibition of alcohol

  • 19th Amendment

    Womens suffrage

  • President Harding's Return to Normalcy

  • Harlem Renaissance

  • Red Scare

    As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare
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    Roaring Twenties

    was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards. ( See flappers and Jazz Age.)

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    The Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s involved national security, big oil companies and bribery and corruption at the highest levels of the government of the United States.

  • Joesph Stalin Leads USSR

  • Scopes "Monkey" Trial

  • Mein Kampf published

  • Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  • Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"

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    Great Depression

    a long and severe recession in an economy or market.

  • Hoovervilles

    a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

  • 100,000 Banks Have Failed

  • Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • Public Works Administration (PWA)

  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    New Deal Programs

    A group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression.
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    The Holocaust

    the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45. More than 6 million European Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals, were murdered at concentration camps such as Auschwitz.

  • Dust Bowl

    an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

  • Social Security Administration (SSA)

    The Social Security Administration (SSA) is a U.S. agency that administers social programs covering disability, retirement and survivors' benefits. It was created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to administer the social insurance programs in the United States.

  • Rape of Nanjing

    In late 1937, over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanking (or Nanjing).

  • Kristallnacht

  • Hitler invades Poland

    Poland, invasion of definition. The action by Germany that began World War II in 1939. Germany invaded Poland only days after signing the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, under which the Soviet Union agreed not to defend Poland from the east if Germany attacked it from the west.
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    World War ll

  • German Blitzkrieg attacks

  • Pearl Harbor

    A major United States naval base in Hawaii that was attacked without warning by the Japanese air force on December 7, 1941, with great loss of American lives and ships

  • Tuskegee Airmen

  • Navajo Code Talkers

  • Executive Order 9066

    was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942

  • Bataan Death March

    After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps

  • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

    Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944

  • Atomic bombing of Nagaski and Hiroshima

  • Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) dAY

  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

  • Victory in Europe (VE) Day

  • United Nations (UN) Formed

  • Germany Divided

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    Harry S. Truman

  • Nuremberg Trials

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    The Cold War

    the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

  • Truman Doctrine

    the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection.

  • 22nd Amendment

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    The Cold War

  • Marshall Plan

    A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II.

  • Berlin Airlift

    A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin ( see Berlin wall ), had cut off its supply routes.

  • NATO Formed

    an organization formed in Washington, D.C. (1949), comprising the 12 nations of the Atlantic Pact together with Greece, Turkey, and the Federal Republic of Germany, for the purpose of collective defense against aggression

  • Kim ll-sung invades South Korea

  • UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River - the border with China

  • Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War

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    Korean War

    A war, also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.

  • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution

  • Armistice Signed

    An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. ... The 1953 Korean War Armistice Agreement is a major example of an armistice which has not been followed by a peace treaty.

  • Warsaw Pact Formed

    A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union

  • Sputnik 1

    was the first artificial Earth satellite.

  • Berlin Wall Falls

    On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West
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    George H. W. Bush

  • Germany Reunification

    was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic

  • Iraq Invades Kuwait

    The Invasion of Kuwait on 2 August 1990 was a 2-day operation conducted by Iraq against the neighboring state of Kuwait, which resulted in the seven-month-long Iraqi occupation of the country. ... The State of Kuwait was annexed, and Saddam Hussein announced a few days later that it was the 19th province of Iraq.
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    Persian Gulf War

  • Soviet Union Collapses

    collapse of communism definition. A stunning series of events between 1989 and 1991 that led to the fall of communist regimes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

  • Operation Desert Storm

    the name used for the military operation in which international armed forces, including British and US troops, attacked Iraq in the Gulf War. It began on 16 January 1991 and lasted 100 days.

  • Ms. Adcox Born

  • Rodney King

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    Bill Clinton

  • NAFTA Founded

  • Contract With America

  • O.J Simpson's "Trial of the Century"

  • Bill Clinton's Impeachment

    During his second term, President William Jefferson Clinton was accused of having perjured himself when he denied having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, an intern with the federal government, and of having attempted to suborn the testimony of a witness.

  • USA Patriot Act

  • 9/11

  • War on Terror

    the ongoing campaign by the United States and some of its allies to counter international terrorism; also called war on terrorism. Homeland Security is the department created to fight the war on terror. Word Origin. 2001. Dictionary.com's 21st Century Lexicon.
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    George W. Bush

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    War in Afghanistan

    international conflict in Afghanistan beginning in 2001 that was triggered by the September 11 attacks and consisted of three phases.

  • NASA Mars Rover Mission Begins

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    Iraq War

    A protracted military conflict in Iraq that began in 2003 with an attack by a coalition of forces led by the United States and that resulted in the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime.

  • Facebook Launched

  • Hurricane Katrina

    was one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to hit the United States. An estimated 1,833 people died in the hurricane and the flooding that followed in late August 2005, and millions of others were left homeless along the Gulf Coast and in New Orleans.

  • Saddam Hussein Executed

    The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.

  • Iphone Released

  • American Recovery and Reinvestment act of 2009

  • Hilary Clinton Appointed U.S. Secretary of State

  • Sonia Sotomayor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court

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    Barack Obama

  • Arab Spring

    a series of antigovernment uprisings affecting Arab countries of North Africa and the Middle East beginning in 2010.

  • Osama Bin Laden Killed

  • Space X Falcon 9

    Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit.

  • Donald Trump Elected President