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Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Transcontinental Railroad Completed
A rail road was built in California from west to east of America -
Industrialization Begins to Boom
Industrial revolution comes to america -
Boss Tweet
Corrupt Politician -
Telephone invented
The device that allowed people to speak across the world -
Reconstruction Ends
With the compromise, the Republicans had quietly given up their fight for racial equality and blacks' rights in the south. In 1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction -
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Gilded Age
The Gilded Age is defined as the time between the Civil War and World War I during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly, there was a lot of political corruption and corporate financial misdealings and many wealthy people lived very fancy lives. -
Light Bulb Invented
Controlled light was made -
Third Wave. Of Immigration
More immigrants came -
Chinese Exclusion act
To keep all the Asians out -
Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
Sherman Anti Trust act
antitrust law -
Interstate Commerce Act
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians -
Andrew Carnegie Gospel of wealth
Considering that Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was among the richest men in American history, his unabashed support for the capitalist system is easy to understand. A Scottish immigrant to the US, Carnegie amassed his vast fortune primarily in the steel industry in the late 1800s. By the time he sold the Carnegie Steel Company in 1901, it was worth more than $400 million in today’s dollars. -
Chicago Hull House
Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened to recently arrived European immigrants -
Klondike Gold Rush
Gold rush in Alaska -
Jacob Riis Book
How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) was an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
Influence of Sea Power Upon History
Alfred Thayer Mahan book about naval battles -
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Imperialism
The Age of Imperialism. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. That pivotal era in the history of our nation is the subject of this online history. -
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government -
Homestead Steel Labor Strike
strike at a factory -
Pullman Labor strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law -
Annexation of Hawaii
We took it -
Spanish American War
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Assassination Of President Mckinley
President Mckinley was killed -
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Theodore Roosevelt
A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Roosevelt was president from 1901 to 1909. He became governor of New York in 1899, soon after leading a group of volunteer cavalrymen, the Rough Riders, in the Spanish-American War. -
Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
we made a canal -
The Jungle
The Jungle is a 1906 novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (1878–1968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure Food And Drug Act
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Model T
First Car -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by W. E. B. -
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William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) served as the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. -
16 Amendment
Federal Income Tax -
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Woodrow Wilson
Wilson, Woodrow definition. A political leader and educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Democrat, he was elected president in 1912 after serving as president of Princeton University ( see Ivy League ) and as governor of New Jersey. Wilson was president from 1913 to 1921. -
17 Amendment
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures -
WW1
Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns -
Francis Ferdinand Assassination
Ferdinand assassinated at Sarajevo -
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World War I
First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 19 -
Kaiser William II
Kaiser William II promised German support for Austria against Serbia -
Sinking of Lusitania
Germany sunk USA Ship -
National Park System
Dont beat up the national parks -
18 Amendment
No Drinking -
President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
went back to normalcy -
Harlem Reminiscence
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. -
Red Scare
A "Red Scare" is promotion of widespread fear by a society or state about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States with this name -
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Roaring 20's
Jazz Hands -
Teapot Dome Scandal
PRES HARDING CABINET MEMBER TOOK A BRIBE -
Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
USSR BECOMES COMMIS -
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf a auto biography that Hitler made about his life -
Scopes “Monkey” Trial
The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high -
Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
blimp blew up -
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
they kiiled people the mafia -
Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday
Stocks dipped -
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States. -
Hooverviles
Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
was an act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. -
100, 000 Banks Have Failed
banks have forclosed -
Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
he was elected as chancellor -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
FDR 14 PLQNS -
Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
FDR 14 PLQNS -
Public Works Administration (PWA)
FDR 14 PLQNS -
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The Holocaust
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New Deal Programs
FDR Plans to help -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drough -
Social Security Administration (SSA)
FDR 14 PLQNS -
Rape Of Nanjing
Japan did a genocide on china -
Kristallnacht
Definition of Kristallnacht. Also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. On this night, November 9, 1938, almost 200 synagogues were destroyed, over 8,000 Jewish shops were sacked and looted, and tens of thousands of Jews were removed to concentration camps. -
Hitler invades Poland
Hitler invaded poland starts ww2 -
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World War II
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
attacks constant -
Tuskegee Airmen
African American Air force sqaud -
Navajo Code Talkers
Used Native american language to talk -
The Pearl Habor
Japan bombed us naval base -
Executive Order 9066
Japanese people who lived in america were put into camps -
Bataan Death March
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Bataan Death March
prisoners -
D-day
Normandy beach assault -
US Bomb Japan
Us bombed major cities in japan after they attack us for payback -
Victory over Japan/ Pacific
Us won -
Liberation Of Concentration Camps
Jews were free -
Victory In Europe
Europe -
United Nations
Alliances of country -
Germany Divided
Germany was split -
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Harry S. Truman
33RD President -
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Baby Boom
People staRTED TO HAVE BABEIS -
sputnik
space ball in space planted by russia -
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The Cold War
America vS Soviet Union -
N.A.T.O
FORMED A TREATY OF COUNTRIES -
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Korean War
North Vs South over politial and traditional wants -
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1950's Prosperity
The Decade of Prosperity. The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. ... Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
Warsaw Pact Formed
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Polio Vaccine
Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis. There are two types: one that uses inactivated poliovirus and is given by injection, and one that uses weakened poliovirus and is given by mouth -
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Vietnam War
Feud between North and South Vietnam -
Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
first episode -
Kennedy Vs Nixion
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. -
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John F Kennedy
35th presi -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Peace Corps Formed
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American -
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
he got shot -
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Lyndon B Johnson
36th pres -
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Richard Nixon
37th President of the United States Of America -
National Rifle Associate (NRA) Lobbying Begins
Gun People -
Aids Epicdemic
people started to catch aids -
Conservative Resurgence
Its initiators called it the Conservative Resurgence while its detractors labeled it the Fundamentalist Takeover. It was launched with the charge that the seminaries and denominational agencies were dominated by liberals. -
Trickle Down Economics
Trickle-down economics, also referred to as trickle-down theory, is an economic theory that advocates reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. -
Sandra Day O’Connor Appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan to 2006. She was the first woman to serve on the Court -
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Ronald Regan
Conservative president -
Marines in Lebanon
Timeline: 1982 - President Ronald Reagan sends Marines to Lebanon on a peacekeeping mission. October 23, 1983 - At 6:22 am, a truck carrying 2000 pounds of explosives drives into the Marine compound in Beirut, Lebanon, and crashes into the 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regimental Battalion Landing Team barracks. -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration -
Oprah Winfrey
talk show -
Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall
Told the russian leader to tear down the wall -
War ON Drugs
War on Drugs is an American term usually applied to the U.S. federal government's campaign of prohibition of drugs, military aid, and military intervention, with the stated aim being to reduce the illegal drug trade -
Berlin Wall falls
the y broke it -
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George H.W, Bush
41st presi -
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Persian Gulf War
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Rodney King
Rodney Glen King was an African-American taxi driver who became known internationally as the victim of Los Angeles Police Department brutality, after a videotape was released of several police officers beating him during his arrest on March 3, 1991 -
Soviet Union Crashes
they fell -
Contract with America
The 1994 elections resulted in Republicans gaining 54 House and 9 U.S. Senate seats. When the Republicans gained this majority of seats in the 104th Congress, the Contract was seen as a triumph by party leaders such as Minority Whip Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, and the American conservative movement in general. -
O.J Simpson
Apparently had killed his wife -
Bill Clinton Impeachment
HE was fired -
War ON Terror
The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the U.S. government after the September 11 attacks in the U.S. in 2001. -
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George H Bush
President 43rd -
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War In Afghanistan
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Usa Patriot Act
The USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001. With its ten-letter abbreviation (USA PATRIOT) expanded, the full title is “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 -
911
Terrorist rammed into the twin towers -
Londen Ward Birthday
my bday -
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IRAQ WAR
WAR IN IRAQ -
Facebook launched
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Hurricane Katrina
scary hurricane in Louisiana -
Saddam Hussein Executed
dictator in iraq -
I Phone Released
the apple corp released the big thing -
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Barrack Obama
44th presi -
Osama Bin Laden killed
terrorist leader -
I got detention
i have detention today
