US History 1887-2008

By enzo.norton-mitchell
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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

    Slavery abolished

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship & due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”.

  • 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) Owners of large business that had lots of political and economic power.
    2. Philanthropy Philanthropy is the charitable contribution of money.
    3. Monopoly Complete control of a product or business by one person or organization
    4. Jane Addams Jane Addams was the founder of the Women's International League and was a suffragist.
    5. Laissez-Faire Laissez-Faire is where the government is hands off of buisness affairs

  • 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

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies.

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    Outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness
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    The Progressive Era

    1. Muckrakers American Journalists who exposed the corruption of big business and leaders.
    2. Initiative, Referendum, Recall Adopt change in law, disapprove law passed, remove official from office.
    3. Great Migration The movement of African-Americans out of the rural South to the urban North.
    4. NAACP Group made to ensure African Americans of their constitutional rights.
    5. Immigration Issues Nativism is preferring US born people vs immigrants. Assimilation is "Americanizing" Native Americans.

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska).

  • 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

    1. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt is the 26th US President
    2. Rough Riders The Rough Riders were a volunteer army unit made during the Spanish-American war
    3. Foreign Policy A government's strategy in dealing with other nations.
    4. Immigration Quotas Limits the amount of immigrants allowed into the country. Became popular in an attempt to preserve the US population as white Americans.
    5. Yellow Journalism Journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

  • Open Door Policy

    Initiated free trade with China

  • Panama Canal begins constructon

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    An addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • 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

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • 16th Amendment

    Established the federal income tax

  • 17th Amendment

    Direct election of U.S. Senators

  • Federal Reserve Act

    Established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War I

    Alvin York
    Alvin York was one of the most decorated US Army soldiers of WWI.
    Homefront
    People who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in a war in a foreign country
    M.A.I.N.
    Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism.
    Sussex Pledge
    Promise by the German navy that they would not attack passenger ships and that they would give fair warning before sinking merchant ships
    American Expeditionary Forces
    US Armed Forces sent to Europe in 1917 to fight in WWI

  • Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Parks System created

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

  • The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • 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

  • 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

  • 18th Amendment

    prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
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    Roaring Twenties

    1. Social Darwinism Theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection that Charles Darwin perceived.
    2. The Red Scare The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government
    3. Assembly Line The assembly line sped up the manufacturing process dramatically.
    4. Return to Normalcy A return to the way of life before World War I
    5. Harlem Renaissance African American cultural movement centered around Harlem

  • 19th Amendment

    women are given the right to vote

  • 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

    1. Hoovervilles Shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless
    2. The New Deal A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by FDR
    3. Causes of the Great Depression Buying on Credit, Underconsumption/Overproduction, Unequal Distribution of Wealth, Margin Buying, Market Crash.
    4. Court Packing Bill that allowed new justices and replacement justices for ones that didn't retire
    5. Eleanor Roosevelt FDR's wife, 1st Lady, Human Rights activist

  • Dust Bowl starts

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • 20th Amendment

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    Repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • 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

    IslandHopping
    Securing islands in Pacific for US gain
    LiberationofConcentrationCamps
    Freeing people from German camps
    DwightEisenhower
    US General and POTUS
    DouglasMacArthur
    General who commanded in Pacific Theatre
    ChesterWNimitz
    Used aircraft carriers to destroy Japans navy
    NavajoCodeTalkers
    Fast communicators who knew code language
    TuskegeeAirmen
    Elite African American pilots
    FlyingTigers
    Planes with shark mouths
    TheManhattanProject
    Research on nukes
    RosietheRiveter
    Female factory worker

  • 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

  • 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)

  • United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War

    1. Containment Stop the spread of communism
    2. Arms Race/Space Race U.S. and Soviet race to the moon
    3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republic Official name of Russia
    4. Communism Government owns everything
    5. Domino theory One event will cause the same thing to happen somewhere else.

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 22nd Amendment

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Korean War starts

  • 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

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • 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

  • 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 the 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 in the sale or rental of housing

  • First Man on the Moon

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

  • Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 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

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Three Mile Island Disaster

  • Iran Contra Affair

  • Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)

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    1990s-21st Century

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    1990s-21st Century

    1. Barack Obama - First African American president. Elected in 2008 and 2012.
    2. al-Qaeda - Islamic terrorist organization made by Osama Bin Laden that was responsible for 9/11 attacks.
    3. NCLB - Govt assists pooper children in school so they can learn just as well as other children.
    4. Clinton’s Impeachment - Impeached for obstruction of justice amidst the Monika Lewinsky scandal
    5. Election of 2000 - Gore won the popular vote while Bush won the electoral. The vote was very close

  • Fall of the USSR - Official end of the Cold War

  • NAFTA created free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada

  • Attack on World Trade Center and Pentagon

  • USA PATRIOT Act

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

  • Hurricane Katrina