US history timeline

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    A document that records the proclamation that the United States is an independent country from Great Britain
  • U.S. Constitution

    U.S. Constitution

    Established America's national government and fundamental laws,guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens
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    E Pluribus Unum

    motto proposed for the first Great Seal of the United States by John Adams,Benjamin Franklin,and Thomas Jefferson
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights

    The first 10 amendments to the constitution
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    Political Machines

    An urban organization designed to win elections and reward its followers,both rich and poor.
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    Social Darwinism

    The theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selections as Charles Darwin perceived in plants and animals in nature
  • Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    Alex de Tocqueville and his Five Principles

    Women and children were more independent and freedom of religion allowed for more religious denominations and created his 5 principles:Liberty,egalitarianism,individualism,populism,and laissez-faire
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    Nativism

    A feeling of superiority that developed among native-born Americans during the age of immigration in the United States
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    Helps develop the American West and spur economic growth
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    Tin Pan Alley

    Comprised the commercial music of songwriters of ballads,dance music,and vaudeville
  • eugenics

    eugenics

    After the discovery of Mendel's law lead to a widespread interest in the idea of breeding for specific traits
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    Settlement House Movement

    It was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States
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    Muckraker

    A group of American writers identified with pre-World War 1 reform and expose writing
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    Homestead Strike 1892

    A violent labor dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its worked that occurred in 1892 in Homestead,Pennsylvania
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    Klondike Gold Rush

    A migration of an estimated 100,000 people prospecting to the Klondike region of north-western Canada in the Yukon region between 1896 and 1899
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    Spanish-American War

    Conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America
  • Tenement

    Tenement

    Any rented or leased dwelling that housed more than three independent families
  • Big Stick Policy

    Big Stick Policy

    The policy held by Teddy Roosevelt in foreign affairs
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    Bracero program

    Permitted millions of Mexican men to work legally in the United States on short-term labor contracts
  • 16th Amendments

    16th Amendments

    To relieve all income taxes when imposed from (the requirement of) apportionment and from (the requirement of) a consideration of the source whence the income derived
  • 17th Amendments

    17th Amendments

    The direct election of senators
  • Panama Canal

    Panama Canal

    To lower the distance,cost,and time it took for ships to carry cargo between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
  • establishment of the National Park System

    establishment of the National Park System

    Conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations
  • Reasons for US entry into WW1

    Reasons for US entry into WW1

    The Lusitania,Germany invasion of Belgium,American loans,reintroduction of unrestricted submarine warfare,and Zimmerman telegram were all reasons for the US entry into WW1
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    Harlem Renaissance

    Instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride,a new social consciousness,and a new commitment to political activism
  • 18th Amendments

    18th Amendments

    To combat its manufacture,sale,distribution,and consumption
  • 19th Amendments

    19th Amendments

    ensuring that American citizens could no longer be denied the right to vote because of their gender
  • Teapot Dome Scandal

    Teapot Dome Scandal

    His administration had been accepting bribes from private oil companies in exchange for control of government oil reserves
  • Immigration Act of 1924

    Immigration Act of 1924

    Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national origins quota
  • American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    American Indian Citizenship Act of 1924

    All Native Americans born in the United States were automatically citizens by birth
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    Deportation of people of Mexican heritage during Great Depression

    Deported in effort to reserve jobs for white people
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    Flying Tigers

    its ability to inflict outsize damage on Japan's better-equipped and larger aircraft fleet.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066

    Authorized the forced removal of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to "relocation centers" further inland --resulting in the incarceration of Japanese Americans
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    Forced by the Japanese military to endure April 1942,during the early stages of WW2
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    Manhattan Project

    To develop a nuclear bomb
  • Korematsu v. U.S.

    Korematsu v. U.S.

    The Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional
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    Nuremberg Trials

    established that all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield and that even a Head of State would be held criminally responsible and punished for aggression and Crimes Against Humanity.
  • In god we trust

    In god we trust

    The official motto of the United States and of the U.S. state of Florida