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Homestead Act
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
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Industrialization Begins to Boom
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Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
-Boss Tweed was an was an American politician who ran Tammany Hall, a political machine that played a major role in the politics, but was very corrupt. -
Telephone Invented
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Reconstruction Ends
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
-Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in 1878. This meant that factory workers could now be able to work longer hours, but they would have light now. -
Third Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
-The Chinese Exclusion Act a law that banned Chinese immigrants from coming into America for 10 years -
Pendleton Act
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Dawes Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie´s Gospel of Wealth
-The Gospel of Wealth was a book that Andrew Carnegie wrote that was telling rich business men to give back to the people, help them out. -
Chicago's Hull House
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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How the Other Half Lives
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History
- Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a lecturer in naval history and the President of the United States Naval War College. Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power upon History", a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power as a factor in the rise of the British Empire.
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Progressive Era
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
-The Homestead Strike (Homestead was the name of the company) was a protest that the workers had in order to get better pay and working conditions, but sadly it didn't go their way. Some of the worker were killed by some ruthless police. -
Pullman Labor Strike
-It was a nationwide railroad strike in the US.It was the American Railroad Union against the Pullman Company -
Annexation Of Hawaii
-Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor. -
Spanish American War
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Open Door Policy
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Assassination of President McKinley
-On September 6, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition at the Temple of Music in Buffalo, New York. The person who shot him was an anarchist. -
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Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt was part of Progressive and Republican Party (Bull Moose)
- Square Deal (3C's), Trust Buster, Consumer, Conservation (nature)
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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The Jungle
-It was a book that talked about a meat factory in Chicago that produced and sold meat that was rotten and had many rodents in it. (Very Unsanitary) -
Pure Food and Drug Act
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Model T
-It was a car that Henry Ford came up with
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NAACP
Stands for The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People it goals were to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination. -
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William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft
-William Howard Taft was part of the Republican Party
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16th Amendment
-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States -
Federal Reserve Act
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Woodrow Wilson
-Woodrow Wilson was part of the "Democratic Party"
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17th Amendment
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. -
Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
Chemical warfare first appeared when the Germans used poison gas during a surprise attack in Flanders, Belgium, in 1915. At first, gas was just released from large cylinders and carried by the wind into nearby enemy lines. Later, phosgene and other gases were loaded into artillery shells and shot into enemy trenches. -
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World War 1
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Sinking of The Lusitania
The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the World War 1, Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed by the German U-boat U-20 and sank in 18 minutes. -
National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Russian Revolution
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US entry into WW1
U.S. Entry into World War I, 1917. On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. -
Battle of Argonne Forest
-The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, also known as the Maas-Argonne Offensive and the Battle of the Argonne Forest, was a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front. It was fought from 26 September 1918 until the Armistice of 11 November 1918, a total of 47 days. -
Armistice
-The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was an armistice during the First World War between the Allies and Germany and the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
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Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
-The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. -
Treaty Of Versailles
-The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. -
18th Amendment
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19th Amendment
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President Harding Return To Normalcy
-Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War -
Harlem Renaissance
- The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. During the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
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Red Scarce
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
- A substitute teacher was taken to court for teaching students about evolution
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Mein Kampf published
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Charles Lindbergh’s Trans-Atlantic Flight
- Total flight time: 33 hours, 30 minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours.
- From St. Louis to Paris, France. (Across Atlantic)
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St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
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Stock Market Crashes “Black Tuesday”
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Great Depression
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Hoovervilles
-A "Hooverville" was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America.
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
- Otherwise known as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff or Hawley–Smoot 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.
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100, 000 Banks Have Failed
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Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- Was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The Government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land.
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming upsurge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support.He was the most powerful political leader in the country, but was a demagogue with no experience of government and they believed they would be able to bring him under control -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Preserves and promotes public confidence in the U.S. financial system by insuring deposits in banks and thrift institutions for at least $250,000; by identifying, monitoring and addressing risks to the deposit insurance funds; and by limiting the effect on the economy
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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New Deal Programs
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The Holocaust
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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 drought
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Social Security Administration (SSA)
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Rape of Nanjing
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. -
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom—broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence. -
Hitler invades Poland
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German Blitzkrieg attacks
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Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is a U.S. naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii, and was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941. US entered war because of this -
Tuskegee Airmen
The popular name of a group of African-American military pilots (fighter and bomber) who fought in World War II. -
Navajo Code Talkers
The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. -
Executive Order 9066
World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas -
Bataan Death March
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Invasion Of Normandy (D-Day)
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Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
During the final stage of World War II, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States had dropped the bombs with the consent of the United Kingdom as outlined in the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people -
Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect ending the war. ... On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri. -
Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Victory in Europe
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Harry S. Truman
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Nuremberg Trials
