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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
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Constitution is written
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Bill of Rights is Ratified
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Civil War/Reconstruction
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Homestead Act
provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west -
13th Amendment
abolished slavery -
14th Amendment
citizenship & due process -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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15th Amendment
voting for all male citizens -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
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Gilded Age
Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
Philanthropy
Monopoly
Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire -
Chinese Exclusion Act
prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act -
Pendleton Civil Service Act
awarded government jobs based on merit -
Interstate Commerce Act
ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business -
Dawes Act
gave individual ownership of land to native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively -
Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
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Progressive Era
Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
outlawed business monopolies -
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska) 1896-1899
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Plessy v. Ferguson
legalized segregation, established “separate but equal” -
Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
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USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
Yellow Journalism -
Open Door Policy
initiated free trade with China -
Roosevelt Corollary
an addition to the Monroe Doctrine -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
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Meat Inspection Act
law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat -
NAACP Founded
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Dollar Diplomacy
Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America -
16th Amendment
established the federal income tax -
17th Amendment
Direct election of senators -
Federal Reserve Act
established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry -
Panama Canal Built
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
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World War I
Alvin York
Homefront
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
Sussex Pledge
American Expeditionary Forces -
Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System created
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Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany
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The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
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Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war
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Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war
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Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers
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President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations -
Treaty of Versailles
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
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Great Depression
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World War II
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United Nations Formed
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Early Cold War
Containment: stopping the spread of communism
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory -
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Civil Rights Era
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22nd Amendment:
22nd Amendment: prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again -
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Vietnam War
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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End of the Cold War
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1990s-21st Century