US History

By Lindsey Perez
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    Early American History (1776-1860)

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction (1860-1877)

  • Homestead Act

    Provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • 13th Amendment: abolished slavery

    Abolished slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    Citizenship & due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment: voting for all male citizens

    Voting for all male citizens

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age (1877-1900)

    Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)~ Robber barons = negative; Captains of industry = positive Philanthropy~ the desire to promote the welfare of others
    Monopoly~ having a finger in every pie
    Jane Addams~ leader of the woman's suffrage movement
    Laissez-Faire~ letting people be free without gov. inter.

  • 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

  • 1889: Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses

  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act

    outlawed trusts to promote economic fairness

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Outlawed business monopolies
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    The Progressive Era (1890-1920)

    Muckrakers
    Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    The Great Migration
    NAACP
    Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    Legalized segregation, established “separate but equal”

  • Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska

    Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska

  • 1898: Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

  • 1898: USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

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    Imperialism (1898-1910)

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine

  • 1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Meat Inspection Act

    law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meal

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

  • 1909: NAACP Founded

  • Dollar Diplomacy

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • 17th Amendment

    direct election of U.S. Senators

  • 16th Amendment

    established the federal income tax

  • Federal Reserve Act

    established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • 1904-1914: Panama Canal Built

  • 1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War I (1914-1918)

  • 1915: Sinking of the Lusitania

  • 1916: National Parks System created

  • 1917: The United States enters WWI on the Allied side

  • 1917: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

  • 1917; Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

  • 1918: Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war

  • 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

  • 1918: Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

  • 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 (1920-1929)

  • 1922: Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal

  • American Indian Citizenship Act

    granted citizenship to any Native Americans born within the United States

  • 1925: Scopes Monkey Trial

  • 1927: Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris

  • 1929: Stock Market Crash

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    Great Depression (1929-1939)

  • 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

  • 1932: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established

  • 20th Amendmen

    adjusted the dates of the presidential terms

  • 21st Amendment

    repeals the 18th Amendment and prohibition ends

  • 1933: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established

  • 1934: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established

  • 1935: 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

  • 1930-1936: Dust Bowl

  • 1939: Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII

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    World War II (1939-1945)

  • 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • 1942: Battle of Midway

  • 1942: Bataan Death March

  • Executive Order 9066

    incarceration of Japanese Americans for the duration of WWII

  • 1944: “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy

  • G.I. Bill

    gives military veterans financial and educational benefits

  • 1945: The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)

  • 1945: The atomic bomb, “Fat Man” is dropped in Nagasaki, Japan, ending World War II (August 9)

  • 1945: United Nations formed

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    Early Cold War (1945-1960)

  • Truman Doctrine

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

  • 1948: Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • 1949: NATO established

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    Civil Rights Era (1950-1970)

  • 1951: Rosenbergs trial

  • 22nd Amendment

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

  • 1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

  • 1950-1953: Korean War

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    Vietnam War (1954-1976)

  • 1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • 1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest

  • Interstate Highway Act (1956):

    authorized the building of a national highway system

  • 1957: USSR launches Sputnik

  • 1957: Little Rock Nine integrated in/to an all-white school in Little Rock, AK

  • 1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba

  • 1961: Berlin Wall built to prevent people from leaving communist East Berlin

  • 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

  • 1963: Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at the March on Washington

  • 1963: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    begins undeclared war in Vietnam

  • 1965: Medicare and Medicaid established

  • 1968: Tet Offensive

  • 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Tinker v. Des Moines

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

  • 1969: First Man on the Moon

  • 1970: Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War (1970-1991)

  • 1971: Pentagon Papers leaked

  • 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

  • 1974: Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • 1975: Fall of Saigon, marks the end of the Vietnam War

  • 1978: Camp David Accords

  • 1979-1981: Iran Hostage Crisis

  • 1979: Three Mile Island Disaster

  • 1985-1987: Iran Contra Affair

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    1990s-21st Century (1990-2008)