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Railroads grew
Ranching ,Cattle Industry Boom ,Mining ,Agricultural
Innovation, and farming.
People started moveing west
Conflict with Native Americans -
Westward Expancion 1865-1890
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A lot of imigrants came to the U.S to work in factorys
so most people move in to cities lots of (Urbanization) started hapening.
Bussnes wanted to monopolice things
•Andrew Carnegie -
Gilded Age 1877-1900
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Teddy Roosevelt wanted U.S. expansio causeing Spanish American War 1898, and Annexation of Hawaii.
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U.S Imperialism 1898-1914
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(1900-1919)Progresive Era
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Democratic Reforms
Regulation of Monopolies
Consumer Protection
Environmental Conservation
Women’s Suffrage: 19th amendment
Prohibition -
Lusitania
Zimmerman Telegram
Trench warfare
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations -
World War One 1914- 1918
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Jazz Age
Flappers
Prohibition
The “new” KKK
Scopes Trial -
Roaring Twenties 1920-1929
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Stock Market Crash
High unemployment
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal -
Great Depression 1929-1941
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Pearl Harbor
Holocaust
Adolf Hitler
Europe and the Pacific
Atomic Bomb -
World War II 1939-1945
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Soviet Union
Communism
Containment
Arms Race
Space Race – Sputnik 1957
Espionage (spies) -
The Cold War 1945-1991
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Sit Ins
Brown vs. Board of Education
“I Have a Dream” -
Part of the Cold War
U.S. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson
Draft
Antiwar Movement -
Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968
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Vietnam War 1954-1975
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Inflation
Oil Crisis
Conservative Resurgence
End of Cold War
Technological Revolution -
Late 20th Century 1970-1999
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U.S. in the 21st Century 2000-Present
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Globalization
9/11 Terrorist Attacks
War on Terror
Hurricane Katrina
2008 Economic Recession
Election of Barack Obama
