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Early American History 1776-1860
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Civil War/Reconstruction 1860-1877
1869: Transcontinental Railroad Completed
1876: Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
13th Amendment: abolished slavery
14th Amendment: citizenship & due process
15th Amendment: voting for all male citizens
Plessy v. Ferguson: legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
Homestead Act (1862): provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890): outlawed business monopolies -
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The Gilded Age 1877-1900
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
Interstate Commerce Act (1887): ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business
Dawes Act (1887): gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883): awarded government jobs based on merit -
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The Progressive Era 1890-1920
Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
Immigration Issu
16th Am established the federal income tax
17th Am direct election of U.S. Senators
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890): outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
Meat Inspection Act (1906)makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)regulation preparation of foods and the sale of medicines
Federal Reserve Act (1914) Federal Reserve helped stabilize the banking industry -
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Imperialism 1898-1910
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
Yellow Journalism
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
1904-1914: Panama Canal Built
Open Door Policy (1899): initiated free trade with China
Roosevelt Corollary (1904): an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
Dollar Diplomacy (1909): Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America -
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World War I 1914-1918
Alvin York
Homefront
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
Sussex Pledge
American Expeditionary Forces
President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points (1918): statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles (1919): 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 1920-1929
Social Darwinism
The Red Scare
Assembly Line
Return to Normalcy
Harlem Renaissance
8th Amendment: prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
19th Amendment: women are given the right to vote
20th Amendment: adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
21st Amendment: repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends
American Indian Citizenship Act (1924): granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States -
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Great Depression 1929-1939
Hoovervilles
The New Deal
Causes of the Great D.
Court Packing
Eleanor Roosevelt
1929Stock Market Crash
1930-1936Dust Bowl
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
1932Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
1933Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
1935Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
Social Secwhich provides unemployment insurance aid to the disabled old age pensions and insurance for families -
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World War II 1939-1945
Island Hopping
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
The Manhattan Project
Rosie the Riveter
Executive Order 9066 (1942): incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII
G.I. Bill (1944): gives military veterans financial and educational benefits
Interstate Highway Act (1956): authorized the building of a national highway system -
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Early Cold War 1945-1960
Containment
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory
22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
Truman Doctrine (1947): U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism
Marshall Plan (1948): program to help European countries rebuild after World War II -
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Vietnam War 1954-1976
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1965: Medicare and Medicaid established
1968: Tet Offensive
1971: Pentagon Papers leaked
1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War
26th Amendment: moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old
Tinker v. Des Moines established speech rights for students.Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964): begins undeclared war in Vietnam
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Civil Right Era 1950-1970
1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in AK
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin
1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington
1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
1969: First Man on the Moon 24th Amendment: Abolishes the poll tax -
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End of the Cold War 1970-1991
OPEC
Sandra Day O’Connor
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
AIDS Epidemic
Star Wars (NOT the movies)
1970: Kent State University shooting
1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
1978: Camp David Accords
1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis
1979: Three Mile Island Disaster
1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair -
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1990s-21st Century 1990-2008
1990-1991: Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
1991: Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War
1994: NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada
2001: Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon
2005: Hurricane Katrina
USA PATRIOT Act (2001): tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism
Barack Obama
al-Qaeda
No Child Left Behind
President Clinton’s Impeachment
Presidential Election of 2000