US history

  • John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil Trust; Andrew Carnegie - Steel

    John D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil Trust; Andrew Carnegie - Steel

    This was an oil producing, refining, and marketing company. At its peak it was the largest oil refiner in the world
  • Wounded Knee - Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians

    Wounded Knee - Federal forces massacre 200 Sioux Indians

    This was when the United States army killed nearly 300 Lakota tribe members
  • Populist Party - formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government

    Populist Party - formed specifically to give farmers a voice in government

    this was a party formed to give farmers a voice in government
  • Yellow Journalism

    Yellow Journalism

    journalism that features unethical or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or individual journalists.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson

    Plessy vs. Ferguson

    'Separate but Equal' is constitutional (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education)
  • Grandfather Clause

    Grandfather Clause

    voting rights of blacks challenged with literacy tests and poll taxes
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Teddy Roosevelt leads Rough Riders, U.S. crushes Spain's Navy
  • Treaty of Paris

    Treaty of Paris

    ends the Spanish-American War
  • Muckraker

    Muckraker

    writers who expose big business corruption
  • Pure Food and Drug act

    Pure Food and Drug act

    Meat Inspection – set food quality standards
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (opens in 1914)
  • Henry Ford

    Henry Ford

    introduces the Model T car, assembly lines introduced
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    establishment of income tax, 17th Amend.- direct election of senators
  • World War I

    World War I

    begins in Europe
  • German U-Boat

    German U-Boat

    sinks British passenger liner Lusitania, Americans killed on board
  • Germany

    Germany

    continues unrestricted submarine warfare-gets warning from U.S.
  • Zimmerman Telegram

    Zimmerman Telegram

    intercepted by British, asks for Germany/Mexico alliance against U.S.; US. Enters WWI
  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

    ends WWI; calls for heavy reparations on Germany, disarmament, and creation of League of Nations; U.S. Senate rejects it
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    outlaws purchase, sale, and transport of alcohol
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    women's suffrage (right to vote)
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    exposes massive corruption in Harding Administration
  • Charles Lindbergh

    completes world's first solo flight across Atlantic - seen as a hero
  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash

    Black Tuesday' - launches Great Depression
  • Wagner Act

    Wagner Act

    supports union rights, protects collective bargaining
  • Social Security Act

    Social Security Act

    establishes funds for unemployed and elderly
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    provides U.S. loan aid to Britain, USSR & allied powers
  • Propaganda

    Propaganda

    motivate U.S. citizens to support war efforts
  • Manhattan Project

    Manhattan Project

    creation of the Atomic Bomb
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    U.S. defeats Japan, seen as turning point in the war in the Pacific
  • Germany surrenders

    Germany surrenders

    on V-E-DAY (victory in Europe day)
  • U.S. drops atomic bombs

    U.S. drops atomic bombs

    on Hiroshima (Aug. 6) and Nagasaki (Aug 9) - Japan surrenders
  • "Iron Curtain"

    "Iron Curtain"

    describes division of Communist Eastern Europe from Western Europe
  • Truman Doctrine

    Truman Doctrine

    U.S. intent to fight Communism by helping free nations resist it.
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    USSR blocks all aid into West Berlin; Berlin Airlift-U.S. drops food and supplies by air to West Berlin
  • Korean war begins

    Korean war begins

    U.S. aids South Korea against North Korea; Peace Treaty in 1953
  • Communist Fear in U.S.

    Communist Fear in U.S.

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed for espionage; Alger Hiss convicted of perjury - 1991 Soviet documents confirm their guilt!
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson; says separate but equal is unconstitutional
  • Rosa Parks arrested

    Rosa Parks arrested

    for not giving up seat on bus to whites; sparks Montgomery Bus
  • Berlin Wall

    Berlin Wall

    divides East and West Berlin (East was communist)
  • "I have a dream”

    "I have a dream”

    speech given by MLK - speech for civil rights

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