U.S History

  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    Cuba=independent, Puerto Rico and Guam=us
    we gave Philippines independence.
  • Mexican War of Independence

    Mexican War of Independence

    War between the peeps of mexico and Spanish government, Mexicans wanted their independence.
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    Manifest Destiny

    Widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that american settlers were destined to expand across North America.
  • Homestead act of 1862

    Homestead act of 1862

    Us laws that allowed residents to own government land.
  • Restoration of the Union

    Restoration of the Union

    They rebuilt roads, got farms running again, and built schools for poor and black children. Eventually the economy in the South began to recover.
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    Reconstruction

    followed the American Civil War and attempts were made to redress slavery and economic legacy.
  • 14th Amendment Passed

    14th Amendment Passed

    granted citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with “equal protection under the laws".
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    Guilded Age

    transformed the economy, tech, and the government.
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    U.S. Imperialism

    Extending power, make money in new markets, social Darwinism.
  • Rockefeller Standard Oil

    Rockefeller Standard Oil

    John D. Rockefeller opened standard oil and ran almost all oil production in the US
  • 15th amendment Passed

    15th amendment Passed

    granted African American men the right to vote.
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. It also made the US subdivide Native Americans and make them farm.
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    Progressivism

    social activism . wanted to get rid of corruption in government. more towards political machines.
  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    US troops killed 150–300 Lakota Indians the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
  • Carnegie Steel founded

    Carnegie Steel founded

    steel company owned by Andrew Carnegie. "maximizing profits and minimizing inefficiencies".
  • Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    group of business men forced her to abdicate. threat of sugar
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    Plessy V. Ferguson

    upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
  • Spanish-american war

    Spanish-american war

    U.S declared war against Spain. War started because of the U.S support for the Cubans and phillipenos and the battleship USS maine blew up out of no where.
  • The Jungle written

    The Jungle written

    The evil of capitalism, violence, inhuman, and destructive.
  • Trust-busting /breakup of Standard Oil

    Trust-busting /breakup of Standard Oil

    broke up by the us government by the Sherman antitrust.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    at the shirtwaist factory, a fire set loose and the workers were trapped inside and couldn't get out so they just jumped to their death.
  • Building of the panama canal

    Building of the panama canal

    France started it and the us finished it. U.S. offered money and Columbia rejected. We helped with some ships just parking. Panama became independent and U.S got the canal.
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    congress restricted child labor.
  • Passing of 19th amendment

    Passing of 19th amendment

    granted women the right to vote
  • Prohibition Protests

    Prohibition Protests

    People were protesting to make alcohol illegal.