US history 1887-2008

  • Declaration of Independence signed

    one of the most important but least celebrated days in American history when 56 members of the Second Continental Congress started signing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.
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    Early American History

  • Constitution written

    members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution.
  • Bill of Rights ratified

    amendments 3 through 12 became part of the Constitution, and these first 10 amendments were thereafter known as our Bill of Rights.
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    Civil War/Reconstruction

    fighting for civil rights
  • 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

    the first continuous railroad line across the United States and opened for through traffic
  • 15th Amendment

    voting for all male citizens
  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

    Bell's success came through his experiments in sound and the furthering of his family's interest in assisting the deaf with communication.
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    The Gilded Age

    lots of economic growth
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era

    social activism and poltical reform
  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”
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    Imperialism

    extending political and economic access, power and control
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    World War I

    orginated in europe, alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism,treaty of versailles
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    Roaring Twenties

    more construction and rapid growth of customer goods, electritcy, and economic growth.
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    Great Depression

    down fall of the economic put people out of job and homeless ness and hunger grew fast. stock market crash 1929
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    World War II

    2 oppsoing military alliances, great deppression,facism,pearl harbor, dictators,
  • United Nations formed

    The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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    Early Cold War

    Containment-American policy of resisting expansion of communism. Arms Race/Space Race-competition between Russia and the U.S to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- commuist superpower Communism- system of government where property is public and people work and are given things by the government according to their needs. Domino Theory-posited that if one country came under the influence of communism, surrounding countries follow in a domino effect.
  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again
  • Truman Doctrine

    declaration that stated that the United States would militarily support nations that were being threatened by communism. Created initially to stem the tide of communism in Greece and Turkey.
  • Berlin Airlift

    response to a soviet blockade of allied controlled sections of Berlin, successfully brought food and medical supplies to allied controlled areas of Berlin.
  • Marshall Plan

    the United States gave monetary support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet communism
  • NATO established

    Developed during Cold War to deter against USSR (Warsaw Pact). Promotes democratic values and encourages consultation and cooperation on defense and security issues to build trust, and in the long run, prevent conflict.
  • Korean War

    when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.
  • 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

    ending segeration, fighting for equality
  • Rosenbergs trial

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were charged and executed (1953) for allegedly passing atomic secrets to Russia, violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

    “Mike,” the world's first hydrogen bomb, on the Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands.
  • Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

    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

    the U.S providng funding for the veitnam military and tensions created 2 sides
  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

    This vaccine contains killed virus and is given by injection.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • USSR launches Sputnik

    the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first.
  • 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

    leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. ... Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey
  • 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
  • 24th Amendment

    Abolishes the poll tax
  • 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
  • Medicare and Medicaid established

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Social Security Act Amendments, popularly known as the Medicare bill. It established Medicare, a health insurance program for the elderly, and Medicaid, a health insurance program for the poor.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Eliminated literacy tests for voters
  • Tet Offensive

    North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. ... The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.
  • Tinker v. Des Moines

    defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools
  • Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of housing
  • First Man on the Moon

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    End of the Cold War

    the berlin wall came down and borders opened. the iron curtain lifted
  • Pentagon Papers leaked

    The Pentagon Papers, officially titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force", was commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. In June of 1971, small portions of the report were leaked to the press and widely distributed
  • 26th Amendment

    moved the voting age from 21 years old 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
  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

    More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. ... Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
  • Big Five

    Barack Obama
    al-Qaeda
    No Child Left Behind
    President Clinton’s Impeachment
    Presidential Election of 2000
  • Barack Obama al-Qaeda No Child Left Behind President Clinton’s Impeachment Presidential Election of 2000

    The Gulf War was a war waged by coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait arising from oil pricing and production disputes
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    1990s-21st Century

    world population grew, new technolgies, nasa discoveries
  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

    Thirteen months later, on December 25, 1991, Gorbachev resigned and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved. President Bush and his chief foreign policy advisers were more pro-active toward Russia and the former Soviet republics after the collapse of the Communist monolith than while it was teetering.
  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and C

    The goal of NAFTA was to eliminate barriers to trade and investment between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. The implementation of NAFTA on January 1, 1994, brought the immediate elimination of tariffs on more than one-half of Mexico's exports to the U.S. and more than one-third of U.S. exports to Mexico.
  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

    The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was a large Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005, particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the costliest tropical cyclone on record, and is now tied with 2017's Hurricane Harvey.
  • USA PATRIOT Act

    tightened the national security, particularly as it was related to foreign terrorism