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HISTORICAL ERAS IN US. HISTORY
A period of expansion, industrialization, immigration and urbanization with significant effects on Native Americans, workers, immigrants, and the rise of big business in the late 19th century. -
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Age of Imperialism and Reform
Age of Imperialism and Reform – 1898 - 1919
During the early 20th century the U.S. entered a new historical era: an Age of Expansionism beyond our natural borders as the country moved from isolationism. U.S. imperialism led to involvement in the Spanish-American War, changing policies in Latin America and Asia and eventually to World War I. At home, reformers made efforts to correct economic and social abuses of the Gilded Age. -
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The roaring
This was also an era of significant prosperity and social change as Americans became more isolationist and responded to significant change in social norms, consumerism, technological advances and artistic achievement. -
Warren G Harding
In 1902, Harding was elected lieutenant governor with the help of Harry Daugherty, head of the Ohio Republican machine. -
16th Amendment
Gave congress the power to tax personal income so the government could pay their reprecentatives and used the other money for reparing their states. -
17th Amendment
Established direct election of United States Senators by Popular vote. By including this amendment it gave the right for our citizen to elect their represenattive or captain. -
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World War 1
This was an era in which the global conflict of World War I and its effects had an impact on all Americans. -
18th Amendment
Banned the sale of alcohol. By doing so their will be less people in jails and create less abuse of alcohol and the deaths that causes this liquids. -
19th Amendment
Established that no state could Discriminate a citizen the right to vote based on gender. No one had to be treted as an un equal citizen they all were made the same so thats why the citizens should treat the womens or mens that were born here their right to vote. -
Warren G Harding
.The most successful foreign policy accomplishment of the Harding administration was the naval disarmament conference chaired by Secretary of State Hughes in Washington, D.C. in November 1921. He had the inestimable gift of never forgetting a man's name. He was a regular he-man . . . a great poker-player, and not at all averse to putting a foot on the brass rail." Harding was an ideal conciliator for the faction-ridden Ohio Republican Party. -
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Rise of Dictators and World War II
The rise of totalitarian governments in Europe and East Asia led to World War II and involvement of the United States in that conflict. -
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Great Depression
Beginning with the Stock Market Crash in 1929, this era is marked by severe depression and the increasing role of the Federal government to improve the economy. -
Omar Bradley
August 1, 1944, Bradley was appointed commander of the 12th Army Group, 1.3 million men strong, which was the largest field command in American history. When Bradley countered by appearing before Congress and delivering a much-publicized call for interservice cooperation, navy leadership assumed a more cooperative stance. -
George Marshall
In recognition of Marshall's efforts in training, planning, and supplying the Allies, Winston Churchill called him the true organizer of victory.First Infantry, he helped to plan the first U.S. campaigns in the war. -
Chester W Nimitz
Throughout early 1945, he directed the captures of Guam, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and was preparing his massive naval armada for an invasion of the Japanese homeland when Japan surrendered in August. -
hector p. garcia
Many Mexican-American veterans became politically involved in such groups as the American GI Forum, which was founded by Dr. Hector García in 1948, in order to increase their political power. -
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Civil Rights
This era highlights the issues of emerging rights for minorities and the leaders and critical events of the modern 20th century civil rights movement. -
Joseph McCarthy
February 12, 1950 brought the spotlight on full, however he accused the Department of State of being "thoroughly infested with communists.no one accused by McCarthy was found to be a spy, a traitor, or a communist n 1952. -
Douglas Mac Arthur
Americans who had viewed MacArthur as a hero began to question his behavior. In the end, MacArthur's egotism—which sometimes worked for him as a military commander—contributed to his downfall.As newly appointed Allied supreme commander, MacArthur accepted Japan's surrender in September 1945 and then brilliantly led U.S. occupying forces in postwar Japan. -
Dwight D Eisenhower
Revisionist historians have come to view Eisenhower as a quietly activist and extraordinarily shrewd president who projected an air of simplicity, naivete, and simplemindedness in order to pursue his objectives more effectively behind the scenes. In 1957, having just promulgated the Eisenhower Doctrine, which pledged U.S. aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by international communism, Eisenhower sent 5,000 marines to Lebanon to suppress an internal revolt against the U.S.-supported gove -
John F. Kennedy
its youth and style, ushered in a period of hope, vigor, and commitment for the United States that would be cruelly cut short by Kennedy's assassination.John F. Kennedy dealt with such controversial issues as the Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and civil rights movement during his brief presidency. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
To highlight the problems of the poor, both black and white, King planned a Poor People's Campaign in the form of a march and campground in Washington during April 1968.. In 1999, his death was declared the work of a conspiracy rather than that of a lone gunman. -
Betty Friedan
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Friedan remained an active advocate for women's rights in the Democratic Party while pursuing her career as a writer and college teacher.1985, Friedan took part in the International Women's Conferences sponsored by the United Nations. -
Richard M Nixon
In 1974, Nixon became the first U.S. president to resign, leaving the office in disgrace. -
Cesar Chavez
the settlement of a jurisdictional dispute in March 1977 with the Teamsters Union over which types of farmworkers the two different unions could attempt to recruit, the UFW concluded agreements with the other large table grape growers.It then began the long process of winning the right to represent farmworkers in negotiating with the growers of numerous other crops. -
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Cold War – Post WWII through the 1980s
This post-war era is marked by issues of communism vs. democracy in Europe and America after World War II. It includes the United States and the Soviet Union as competing superpowers in the balance of power. The escalation of the Cold War from containment to the outbreak of the Korean War and foreign policies of the Kennedy / Johnson years including the growing conflict in Vietnam as well as the ending of the Cold War in the 1980s. -
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Late 20th Contemporary Issues
An era of change as the U.S. experienced the end of the Cold War, new conflicts in the Middle East, the impeachment of a President and a controversial election to begin a new century. -
Sandra Day O’Connor
As a member of the Supreme Court, O'Connor established a record as a moderate conservative who often held the balance of power on key votes. -
Bill Clinton
In April 1999, he authorized American planes to join North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in bombing Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the policy of "ethnic cleansing" during the Yugoslavian Civil War in the Yugoslovian.He also turned his attention to the Middle East, meeting with the leaders of Syria, Israel, and other nations in an attempt to broker deals that would bring peace to the area. -
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21st century
Early in this century America dealt with a new threat of terrorism at home with the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and a decade of the “War Against Terror”. This era also marked the election of the first African-American President of the United States in 2008. -
Barack Obama
