Us History 1877-2008

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    Early American History

  • DOI signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights Signed

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west
  • Amendment 13

    abolished slavery
  • Amendment 14

    citizenship, due process
  • Transcontinental Railroad complete

  • Amendment 15

    voting for all male citizens
  • Telephone invented; Alex. Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    • Rockefeller v. Carnegie
    • Philanthropy
    • Monopoly
    • Jane Addams
    • Laissez-Fair
  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, 1st US immigration Act
  • Pendleton Civil Service Act

    awarded gov. Jobs based on merit
  • Dawes Act

    gave individual ownership of land to Native Americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time gov. Stepped in to regulate business
  • Hull House founded

    1st of many settlement houses
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    The Progressive Era

    • muckrakers
    • initiative, referendum, recall
    • The Great Migration
    • NAACP
    • Immigration Issues(Assimilation and Nativism)
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
  • Klondike Gold Rush(1896-9)

    Alaska
  • Plessy v. Fergusson

    legalized segregation
    - "separate but equal"
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    Imperialism

  • The Jungle; Upton Sinclair is published

    exposed the food industry, prompted the birth of the FDA
  • Meat Inspection Act

    law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines
  • NAACP founded

    (national association for the advancement of colored people) largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation, founded in 1909 in response to ongoing violence against black people across the country
  • Amendment 16

    established federal income tax
  • Amendment 17

    direct election of US senators
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    World War I

  • Federal Reserve Act

    established the federal reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry
  • National Parks Sys. created

    good for the environment ig
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    Roaring Twenties

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

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    Early Cold War

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    Civil Rights Era

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    Vietnam War

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    End of Cold War

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    1990s-21st Century