US History Since the Civil War

By Foghunter
  • Period: to

    Crédit Mobilier Scandal

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    Black Codes

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    Presidential Reconstruction

  • Special Field Order 15

  • Freedmen's Bureau

  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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    Presidency of Andrew Johnson

  • (KKK) Ku Klux Klan

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Reconstruction Act of 1867

  • Period: to

    Radical Reconstruction

  • Tenure of Office Act

  • Alaska Purchase

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

  • 14th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant

  • Period: to

    Senatorship of Hiram Revels

  • 15th Amendment

  • Enforcement Act of 1870

  • Enforcement Act of 1871

  • Liberal Republicans

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    Slaughter-House Cases

  • Period: to

    Panic of 1873

  • Colfax Massacre

  • WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union)

  • United States v. Cruikshank

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Bargain of 1877

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    Gilded Age

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes

  • Period: to

    Great Railroad Strike of 1877

  • "Progress and Poverty" - Henry George

  • Period: to

    Kansas Exodus

  • Period: to

    Presidency of James A. Garfield

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Chester A. Arthur

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

  • Civil Service Act

  • Civil Rights Cases

  • Creation of the Time Zones

  • Period: to

    First Presidency of Grover Cleveland

  • Haymarket Affair

  • AFL (American Federation of Labor)

  • ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission)

  • Dawes Act

  • "Looking Backward" - Edward Bellamy

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Benjamin Harrison

  • Hull House

  • "How the Other Half Lives" - Jacob Riis

  • "The Influence of Sea Power upon History" - Alfred T. Mahan

  • NAWSA (National American Woman Suffrage Association)

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

  • Populist Party

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    Homestead Strike

  • Period: to

    Panic of 1893

  • Overthrowing of Queen Liliuokalani

  • Period: to

    Second Presidency of Grover Cleveland

  • "Wealth Against Commonwealth" - Henry Demarest Lloyd

  • IRL (Immigration Restriction League)

  • March of Coxey's Army

  • Period: to

    Pullman Strike

  • United States v. E.C. Knight Co.

  • "Atlanta Compromise" - Booker T. Washington

  • NACWC (National Association of Colored Women's Clubs)

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

  • Period: to

    Presidency of William McKinley

  • Period: to

    Spanish-American War

  • "The Theory of the Leisure Class" - Thorstein Veblen

  • Period: to

    Philippine-American War

  • Gold Standard Act

  • Period: to

    Insular Cases

  • Socialist Party

  • Assassination of William McKinley

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

  • "The Souls of Black Folk" - W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Ford Motor Company

  • Panama Canal Zone

  • Northern Securities

  • Roosevelt Corollary

  • Niagara Movement

  • Lochner v. New York

  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

  • "A Living Wage" - John A. Ryan

  • "The Jungle" - Upton Sinclair

  • Hepburn Act

  • Meat Inspection Act

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

  • Muller v. Oregon

  • NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

  • Period: to

    Presidency of William Howard Taft

  • Period: to

    Mexican Revolution

  • Bailey v. Alabama

  • Triangle Fire

  • Society of American Indians

  • Progressive Party

  • 17th Amendment

  • 16th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

  • Federal Reserve

  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • FTC (Federal Trade Commission)

  • Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914

  • Ku Klux Klan Reemerges

  • "Birth of a Nation" - D.W. Griffith

  • Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

  • Zimmermann Telegram

  • Period: to

    Russian Revolution

  • Period: to

    US Involvement in World War I

  • Espionage Act of 1917

  • Period: to

    Spanish Flu

  • "Fourteen Points" - Woodrow Wilson

  • "If We Must Die" - Claude McKay

  • 18th Amendment

  • Period: to

    First Red Scare

  • Schenck v. United States

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

  • 19th Amendment

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Warren G. Harding

  • Tulsa Race Massacre

  • Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

  • Hays Code

  • "American Individualism" - Herbet Hoover

  • Washington Naval Conference

  • Meyer v. Nebraska

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Calvin Coolidge

  • Immigration Act of 1924

  • "Middletown" - Robert and Helen Lynd

  • Period: to

    Great Depression

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Herbert Hoover

  • Repealing of Sheppard-Towner Act

  • Black Tuesday

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

  • Scottsboro Case

  • Period: to

    Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  • Bonus Army

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Bank Holiday

  • Period: to

    Hundred Days

  • US Recognition of Soviet Union

  • 21st Amendment

  • Period: to

    Dust Bowl

  • "Share Our Wealth" - Huey Long

  • Period: to

    Second New Deal

  • Period: to

    Neutrality Acts

  • National Recovery Administration Dissolved

  • Social Security Act

  • Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

  • "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" - John Maynard Keynes

  • Period: to

    Flint Sit-Down Strike

  • Period: to

    Second Sino-Japanese War

  • House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Munich Agreement

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Period: to

    Invasion of Poland

  • Establishment of the Draft

  • "The American Century" - Henry Luce

  • "Four Freedoms" - Franklin D Roosevelt

  • Lend-Lease Act

  • Executive Order 8802

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

  • Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

  • Executive Order 9066

  • Period: to

    Battle of Midway

  • Period: to

    Soot Suit Riots

  • Period: to

    Detroit Race Riot

  • Magnuson Act

  • Smith v. Allwright

  • D-Day

  • GI Bill

  • Period: to

    Bretton woods Conference

  • Period: to

    Battle of the Bulge

  • Korematsu v. United States

  • Period: to

    Yalta Conference

  • Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Harry S. Truman

  • V-E Day

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

  • Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki

  • Truman Doctrine

  • Executive Order 9835 - "Loyalty Order"

  • Jackie Robinson Integrates Major League Baseball

  • Mendez v. Westminster

  • Levittown

  • Taft-Harley Act

  • Period: to

    Freedom Train Exhibition

  • Hollywood Blacklist from the House Un-American Activities Committee

  • Marshall Plan

  • Period: to

    Berlin Blockade and Airlift

  • Executive Order 9981 - Desegregation of the Military

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • RDS-1 - First Successful Soviet Atomic Bomb

  • People's Republic of China

  • "The Lonely Crowd" - David Riesman

  • McCarthy's Speech in Wheeling, WV

  • NSC 68 - United States Objectives and Programs for National Security

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • McCarran Internal Security Act

  • Ivy Mike - The First Hydrogen Bomb

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Execution of Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

  • Period: to

    Army-McCarthy hearings

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • CIA-Led Guatemalan Coup D'état

  • Geneva Accords

  • "Howl" - Allen Ginsberg

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • The First Soviet Hydrogen Bomb

  • AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)

  • Period: to

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • "Southern Manifesto"

  • Interstate Highway System

  • Little Rock Nine

  • SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

  • The Launch of Sputnik 1

  • National Defense Education Act

  • Kitchen Debate

  • Period: to

    Sagebrush Rebellion

  • Period: to

    Greensboro Sit-Ins

  • Young Americans for Freedom

  • Period: to

    Presidency of John F. Kennedy

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Period: to

    Freedom Riders

  • Berlin Wall Constructed

  • Port Huron Statement

  • "Silent Spring" - Rachel Carson

  • Desegregation of University of Mississippi

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • "The Feminine Mystique" - Betty Friedan

  • "Letter from Birmingham Jail" - Martin Luther King Jr.

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Freedom Summer

  • Period: to

    Great Society

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Watts Riots

  • Immigration and Nationality Act (Hart-Celler Act)

  • National Organization for Women

  • American Indian Movement

  • Period: to

    Tet Offensive

  • My Lai Massacre

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Richard Nixon

  • Stonewall Riots

  • Woodstock

  • Cambodian Campaign

    Until July 22

  • US Abandon the Gold Standard

  • Pentagon Papers

  • Nixon's Visit to China

    Until February 28, 1972

  • Equal Rights Amendment Passed for Ratification

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Title IX

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Paris Peace Accords

  • Chilean Coup D'État

  • War Powers Resolution

  • Resignation of Richard Nixon

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Gerald Ford

  • Fall of South Vietnam

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Jimmy Carter

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

  • Camp David Accords

  • Three Mile Island Accident

  • Period: to

    Iran Hostage Crisis

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Ronald Reagan

  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

  • Period: to

    Iran-Contra Affair

  • Bowers v. Hardwick

  • Period: to

    Presidency of George H. W. Bush

  • Fall of Communism

  • Gulf War

    Until January 17, 1991

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union

  • Los Angeles Riots

    Until May 4, 1992

  • Planned Parenthood v. Casey

  • Period: to

    Presidency of Bill Clinton

  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  • Contract with America

  • Oklahoma City Bombing

  • Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Ended

  • Impeachment of Bill Clinton

    Until February 12, 1999

  • Glass-Steagall Act Repealed

  • Seattle WTO Protests

    Ended December 3, 1999

  • Bush v. Gore

  • Period: to

    Presidency of George W. Bush

  • September 11 Attacks

  • Period: to

    War in Afghanistan

  • Patriot Act

  • "Axis of Evil" - George W. Bush

  • United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

  • Period: to

    Iraq War

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