U.S history

  • John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust

    John D. Rockefeller Standard Oil Trust

    It is an American company that controls almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the Cleveland, Ohio
  • Andrew Carnegie Steel

    Andrew Carnegie Steel

    Carnegie had built Carnegie steel company into one of the largest, most profitable companies in the United States
  • Dawes Severalty Act

    Dawes Severalty Act

    Denies tribal rights, advances forced assimilation, opens land to whites
  • Wounded Knee

    Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlaws monopolies, price-fixing, other trade restraints
  • Populist party

    Populist party

    formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government
  • yellow journalism

    yellow journalism

    journalism that features unethical and unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists
  • grandfather clause

    grandfather clause

    voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    ends spanish-american war
  • open door policy

    open door policy

    U.S attempt to gain foothold in Chinese markets
  • muckraker

    muckraker

    writers who expose big business corruption
  • pure food and drug act

    pure food and drug act

    set food quality standards
  • henry ford

    henry ford

    he introduces the model T car and assembly lines are introduced as well
  • 16th amendment

    16th amendment

    establishment of income tax
  • WW1

    WW1

    world war 1 begins in Europe
  • Zimmerman telegram

    Zimmerman telegram

    intercepted by the british, asks for germany/mexico to alliance against the U.S, the U,S enters WW1
  • selective service act

    selective service act

    establishes the draft
  • most important of 14 points

    most important of 14 points

    calls for League of Nations
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    ends WW1, calls for heavy reparations on germany, disarament, and creation of League of Nations, U.S senate rejects it
  • 18th amendment

    18th amendment

    outlaws the purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol
  • 19th amendment

    19th amendment

    women right to vote
  • Teapot dome scandal

    Teapot dome scandal

    exposes massive corruption in Harding Administration
  • dawes plan

    dawes plan

    ease war reparations on germany
  • Charles Lindbergh

    Charles Lindbergh

    completes the worlds first solo flight across the atlantic
  • stock market crash

    stock market crash

    launches the great depression
  • social security act

    social security act

    establishes funds for unemployment and elderly
  • wagner act

    supports union rights
  • propaganda

    propaganda

    motivate U.S citizens to support war efforts
  • battle of midway

    battle of midway

    U.S defeats japan
  • manhattan project

    manhattan project

    creation of the atomic bomb
  • internment of japanese americans

    internment of japanese americans

    imprisonment of japanese in california
  • nuremberg trials

    nuremberg trials

    prosecute nazi war criminals
  • korean war begins

    korean war begins

    U.S aides south korea against north korea
  • rosa parks arrested for not giving up her seat

    rosa parks arrested for not giving up her seat

    sparks up the montgomery boycott
  • jonas salk

    jonas salk

    creates polio vaccine
  • sputnik

    sputnik

    USSR launches first satellite in space
  • berlin wall

    berlin wall

    wall divides east and west berlin
  • "I have a dream" speech

    "I have a dream" speech

    speech about civil rights spoken by MLK
  • malcom X

    malcom X

    blames whites for african american problems
  • voting rights of 1965

    voting rights of 1965

    bans literacy test for voting
  • miranda vs. arizona

    miranda vs. arizona

    police must read suspects their rights
  • thurgood marshall

    thurgood marshall

    first black justice of the supreme court
  • roe vs. wade

    roe vs. wade

    legalizes abortion
  • libya bombed

    libya bombed

    libya is bombed for supporting palestintians
  • berlin wall

    berlin wall

    berlin wall dividing east and west berlin falls

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