US History: 1877-2008

By lancealston
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence Signed

  • Constitution Written

  • Bill of Rights Ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • 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

  • 15th Amendment

    Voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

    1. Rockefeller/Carnegie(Captains of industry vs. Robber Barons): The two richest men in the world at the time had very different approaches to how they wanted to be in society.
    2. Philanthropy: The desire to promote the welfare of others
    3. Monopoly: When a business over dominates and controls one sector of industry.
    4. Jane Addams: A social reformer known for fighting for women's rights.
    5. Laissez-Faire: A hands off approach to economy.

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act

  • Pendleton 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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal"

  • USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

  • Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

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    Imperialism

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Rough Riders
    Foreign Policy
    Immigration Quotas
    Yellow Journalism

  • End of Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Collary

    An addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

  • Panama Canal Built

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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

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

  • Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war

  • Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

  • Woodrow's 14 points for Peace.

    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

  • 18th Amendment

    Prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal

  • 19th Amendment

    Women are given the right to vote
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    Roaring Twenties

    Social Darwinism
    The Red Scare
    Assembly Line
    Return to Normalcy
    Harlem Renaissance

  • Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • American Indian Citizenship Act

    Granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States

  • Scopes Monkey Trial

  • Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

  • Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression

    Hoovervilles
    The New Deal
    Causes of the Great Depression (5)
    Court Packing
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Dust Bowl

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • 20th Amendment

    Adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established

  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) established

  • Social Security Act

    Established the Social Security Administration, which provides unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, old age pensions, and insurance for families

  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War II

    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

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Midway

  • Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    Incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bill

    Gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • United Nations Formed

  • The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)

  • The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment: The US attempt to prevent Communism spread.
    2. Arms Race/Space Race: Nuclear and Space Race between US and USSR.
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: Communist country led by Stalin through the 1900's
    4. Communism: All property is publicly owned
    5. Domino Theory: One event in one country will cause similar events in other countries.

  • 22nd Amendment

    Prohibits anyone elected twice from being elected again.

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    Program to help European countries rebuild after World War II.

  • NATO Established

  • Beginning of Korean War

  • Sweatt V. Painter

    Ruled the separate law school at the University of Texas failed to qualify as “separate but equal”
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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenberg Trials

  • First H-Bomb Detonated by United States

  • End of Korean War

  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and mandated desegregation

  • Hernandez v. Texas

    Mexican Americans and all other races provided equal protection under the 14th Amendment
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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk Invents The Polio Vaccine

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Interstate Highway Act

    Authorized the building of a national highway system

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

  • Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Made discrimination based on race, religion, or national origin in public places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis

  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes Poll Tax

  • Medicare and Medicaid established

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters

  • Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Prohibited Discrimination based on housing or rental.

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools.

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of The Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • 26th Amendment

    Moved voting age from 21 to 18 years old.

  • Title IX

    Protects people from discrimination based on gender in education programs

  • War Powers Act

    Law limited the President’s right to send troops to battle without Congressional approval.

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks end of Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • End of Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Iran Contra Affair

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    1990's-21st Century