U.S. History Timeline

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    Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is when people were finally able to vote and deiced who can be their new government
  • E Pluribus Unum

    A Latin phrase meaning "One from many," the phrase offered a strong statement of the American determination to form a single nation from a collection of states.
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    Political Machines

    A party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.
  • U.S. Constitution

    The Constitution of the United States established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens.
  • Bill of Rights

    The Bill of Rights were 10 amendments guaranteeing basic individual protections, such as freedom of speech and religion, that became part of the Constitution in 1791.
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    Tenement

    A room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments
  • Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    Women and children were more independent, and the freedom of religion allowed for more religious denominations. As a result of his observations, Tocqueville determined five values crucial to America's success as a constitutional republic: liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire.
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    Nativism

    The meaning of Nativism is a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants.
  • Homestead Act

    On May 20, 1862 Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act. The 1862 Homestead Act accelerated settlement of U.S. western territory by allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.
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    Tin Pan Alley

    The name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
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    Settlement House Movement

    A group of enterprising settlement house movement leaders sought to achieve change by bridging the gaps between social classes. Which support services to the urban poor and European immigrants, often including education, healthcare, childcare, and employment resources.
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    Muckraker

    A muckraker was any of a group of American writers identified with pre-World War I reform and exposé writing. A muckraker means a person who searches for and tries to expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or other wrongdoing, especially in politics.
  • Homestead Strike 1892

    The Homestead Strike was a violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred in 1892 in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The striking workers were all fired on July 2, and on July 6 private security guards hired by the company arrived.
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    Klondike Gold Rush

    Was a mass exodus of prospecting migrants from their hometowns to Canadian Yukon Territory and Alaska after gold was discovered there in 1896.
  • Spanish-American War

    The war began on April 25, 1898 when the United States declared war on Spain. The War was fought between the United States and Spain in 1898; largely over the independence of Cuba.
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    Social Darwinism

    The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature. Which declined during the 20th century as an expanded knowledge of biological, social, and cultural phenomena undermined, rather than supported, its basic tenets.
  • Big Stick Policy

    Diplomatic policy developed by Roosevelt where the "big stick" symbolizes his power and readiness to use military force if necessary.
  • 16th Amendments

    Allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.
  • 17th Amendment

    Giving the people to vote for their senators instead of the state legislature.
  • Panama Canal

    A constructed waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. The Panama Canal was built to lower the distance, cost, and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
  • Establishment of the National Park System

    President Woodrow Wilson established the National Park Service in 1916
  • Reasons for US entry into WW1

    The U.S. entered the WW1 because by they were selling and trading with so many countries and seen their trading partners were probably losing then they started losing money and supplies / weapon.
  • 18th Amendments

    Established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
  • 19th Amendments

    Granted women the right to vote
  • Eugenics

    The scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,
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    Harlem Renaissance

    An African-American cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s, centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life.
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    Teapot Dome Scandal

    Accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies.
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    The Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota.
  • American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    Congress granted citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. The right to vote, however, was governed by state law; until 1957, some states barred Native Americans from voting.
  • Deportation of people of Mexican heritage during Great Depression

    The United States deported Americans to Mexico because they were brown and there were too many people there at the time before the WW2
  • Bracero program

    The Bracero program was an agreement between the U.S. and Mexican governments that permitted Mexican citizens (men) to take temporary agricultural work in the United States, meaning; short-term labor contracts. Cause of the WW2
  • Bataan death

    Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
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    Manhattan Project

    The secretive government project, whose purpose was to develop a nuclear bomb. It succeeded on 16 July 1945 at the Trinity Test in New Mexico .
  • Executive Order 9066

    Authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland; resulting in the incarceration of Japanese Americans.They were not successful because of so many lost businesses, farms and loved ones as a result.
  • Flying Tigers

    The nickname of U.S. fighter pilots, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), who fought against the Japanese in China during World War II.
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    The congressional statutes gave the military authority to exclude citizens of Japanese ancestry from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage.
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    Nuremberg Trials

    The first international war crimes tribunal in history revealed the true extent of German atrocities and held some of the most prominent Nazis accountable for their crimes.
  • In God We Trust

    The 84th Congress passed a joint resolution "declaring 'IN GOD WE TRUST' the national motto of the United States." The resolution passed both the House and the Senate unanimously and without debate. It replaced E pluribus unum, which had existed before as a de facto official motto.