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Early American History
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Declaration of Independence signed
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Constitution written
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Bill of Rights 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 and 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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The Gilded Age
1) Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons) A Captain of Industry was a business leader whose income contributed positively to the country while robber barons develop monopolies and keep the money to themselves
2) Philanthropy something done to better humanity
3) Monopoly a business that is the only provider of a good/service
4) Jane Addams an American activist for reform
5) Laissez-Faire letting companies take their own course without government interference. -
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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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 journalists who exposed institutions
2) Initiative, Referendum. Recall powers reserved to voters to propose repeal or remove elected official
3) The Great Migration massive movement of African Americans out of South into North for economic opportunities
4) NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People civil right organization
5) Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism) attempts to make everyone like the white man -
Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)
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Plessy v. Ferguson
Legalized segregation, established "separate but equal" -
USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
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Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
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Imperialism
1) Theodore Roosevelt 26th president, conservationist, naturalist, historian, writer
2) Rough Riders first U.S. volunteer cavalry under TR
3) Foreign Policy interactions with foreign nations
4) Immigration Quotas limited the number of immigrants allowed entry to the United States
5) Yellow Journalism style of journalism that emphasized sensationalism over facts -
Open Door Policy
initiated free trade with China -
Panama Canal Built
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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 -
Pure Food and Drug Act
regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines -
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 U.S. Senators -
Federal Reserve Act
established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry -
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting WWI
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World War I
1) Alvin York one of the most decorated US Army soldiers of WWI
2) Homefront those who stay in a country and work while that country's soldiers are fighting in foreign country
3) M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI) militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism
4) Sussex Pledge agreed to give adequate warning before sinking merchant and passenger ships
5) American Expeditionary Forces troops serving in Europe during WWI -
Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System created
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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 -
18th Amendment
prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal -
19th Amendment
women are given the right to vote -
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Roaring Twenties
1) Social Darwinism ideologies of evolution by natural selection
2) The Red Scare fear of potential rise of communism or anarchism
3) Assembly Line manufacturing process
4) Return to Normalcy return to the way of life before WWI and Spanish Flu pandemic
5) Harlem Renaissance time for cultural celebration for African Americans through their art -
Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
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American Indian Citizenship
granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the U.S. -
Scopes Monkey Trial
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Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
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Stock Market Crash
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Great Depression
1) Hoovervilles towns for those effected economically
2) The New Deal series of domestic programs to combat the effects of the Great Depression on the economy
3) Causes of the Great Depression Stock Market Crash of 1929, banking panics, reduction in purchasing across the board, American economic policy with Europe, Drought conditions
4) Court Packing TR's attempt to pass a bill allowing him to appoint new justices
5) Eleanor Roosevelt driving force in creating the 1948 charter of liberties -
Dust Bowl
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
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20th Amendment
adjusted the dates of the presidential terms -
21st Amendment
repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
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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
1)sland Hopping military strategy
2Liberation of Concentration Camps Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau
3Dwight Eisenhower 34th president
4Douglas MacArthur American general
5Chester W. Nimitz admiral used aircrafts
6Navajo Code Talkers used codes to send sensitive military messages
7Tuskegee Airmen first black military aviators
8Flying Tigers nickname for fighter pilots
9The Manhattan Project code for American effort for atomic weapon
10 Rosie the Riveter iconic female poster for working women -
Attack in Pear Harbor
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Battle of Midway
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Bataan Death March
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Executive Order 9066
incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII -
"D-Day" - Invasion of Normandy
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G.I. Bill
gives military veterans financial and educational benefits -
The atomic bomb, "Little Boy" is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)
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The atomic bomb "Fat Man" is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan ending WWII (August 9)
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United Nations formed
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Early Cold War
1)Containment US policy preventing spread of communism abroad
2)Arms Race/Space Race competition between US and USSR to make weapons and make it to space first
3)The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia
4)Communism socio-economic political movement where factories and farms are shared without rules or money
5)Domino Theory if it happen to one it'd eventually happen to all -
22nd Amendment
prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice form being elected again -
Truman Doctrine
U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism -
Berlin Airlift
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Marshall Plan
program to help European countries rebuild after WWII -
NATO established
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Korean War
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Civil Rights Era
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Rosenbergs trial
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First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
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Vietnam War
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Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
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Interstate Highway Act
authorized the building of a national highway system -
USSR launches Sputnik
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
begins undeclared war in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid established
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Tet Offensive
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Tinker v. Des Moines
Defined the First Amendment rights for students in the United States Public Schools -
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End of Cold War
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Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
Moved the voting age from 21 years old to 18 years old -
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
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1990’s - 21st Century
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Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany