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U.S History

By Qproject169
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    A New Nation

  • First Congress

  • Bank of USA

  • Judicial Review

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    Expansion and Reform

  • Judiciary Act of 1801

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Lewis and Clark

  • Embargo Act of 1807

  • War of 1812

  • Treaty of Ghent

  • Battle of New Orleans

  • 16th Amendment, establishing an income tax

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Nationalism

  • James Monroe

  • Eli Whitney/Cotton Gin

  • Andrew Jackson

  • St. Valentine's Day massacre

  • Martin Van Buren

  • Know-Nothings

  • Noah Webster

  • Samual Colt

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    Civil War

  • California Gold Rush

  • Manifest Destiny

  • Gadsden Purchase

  • Convention of Kanagawa

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate

  • Harper's Raid

  • South Carolina secedes from the Union

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    The Great West

  • Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States

  • American Civil War begins at Fort Sumter

  • Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Battle of Manassas)

  • Battle of Gettysburg

  • Sand Creek Massacre

  • 13th Amendment passes, permanently outlawing slavery

  • Ku Klux Klan founded

  • Civil Rights Act of 1866

  • Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, acquitted by the Senate

  • Yellowstone National Park created

  • Ulysess S. Grant defeats Greely

  • RMS Atlantic sinks

  • Battle of Little Bighorn

  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

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    Becoming an Industrial Society

  • Washington monument completed

  • Haymarket Riot

  • American Federation of Labor founded in Columbus, Ohio

  • Wounded Knee Massacre

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    America in world affairs

  • Jacob Riis published "How the Other Half Lives"

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

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    Progressive movement

  • Homestead Strike

  • Pullman strike

  • Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff

  • Plessy v. Ferguson, affirms the idea of "separate but equal"

  • USS Maine explodes in Havana Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish-American War

  • American Somoa Occupied

  • Teller Amendment

  • Gold Standard Act

  • U.S. helps put down Boxer Rebellion

  • Theodore Roosevelt becomes President

  • William McKinley assassinated

  • U.S. Steel founded by John Pierpont Morgan

  • The Wright brothers make their first powered flight in the Wright Flyer

  • Department of Commerce and Labor created

  • Ford Motor Company formed

  • Big Stick Diplomacy

  • Panama Canal Zone acquired

  • Ford Model T appears on marke

  • NAACP founded by W. E. B. Du Bois

  • Boy Scouts of America chartered

  • Mann-Elkins Act

  • Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil

  • RMS Titanic sinks

  • End of the Philippine-American War

  • Federal Reserve Act

  • Mother's Day established as a national holiday

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    The Great War

  • World War 1 begins in Europe

  • ABC Nations

  • RMS Lusitania sunk

  • Federal Farm Loan Act

  • U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark

  • U.S. enters World War I

  • Zimmermann telegram

  • Espionage and Sedition Acts

  • President Wilson's Fourteen Points, which assures citizens that that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe

  • First Red Scare

  • United States Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations

  • Treaty of Versailles ends World War I

  • 18th Amendment, establishing Prohibition

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    Property and Depression

  • 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote

  • First radio broadcasts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Detroit, Michigan

  • Emergency Quota Act

  • Immigration Act Basic Law

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross elected governor of Wyoming

  • Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight

  • Disney's Steamboat Willie opens, the first animated picture to feature Mickey Mouse

  • Kellogg-Briand Pact

  • Frozen vegetables, packaged by Clarence Birdseye, become the first frozen food to go on sale

  • Empire State Building opens in New York City.

  • Bonus Army marches on DC

  • 20th Amendment, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices on January 20.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt sworn in as President; he is the last president to be inaugurated

  • 21st Amendment, ending Prohibition

  • Dust Bowl begins, causing major ecological and agricultural damage to the Great Plains

  • John Dillinger killed

  • Social Security Act

  • The F.B.I. is established with J. Edgar Hoover as its first director.

  • Neutrality Act

  • Hindenburg disaster, killing 35 people and marking an end to airship travel

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Nazi Germany invades Poland; World War II begins

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    World War II

  • Britain and France declare war on Germany.

  • German troops march into Paris, France surrenders on June 22

  • The 'Battle of Britain' air campaign begins.

  • Germany invades Russia. Hitler orders "maximum cruelty" against civilians, which results in fanatic Russian resistance.

  • Pearl Harbor

  • The battle of Midway. Four Japanese carriers are sunk, and one American carrier. Japan's naval superiority is lost.

  • D-Day. American, British, Canadian forces invade France at the beaches of Normandy

  • Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin. He appoints Admiral Doenitz as his successor.

  • V.J Day

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    Recovery, Prosperity, Turmoil and the Cold War

  • Employment Act

  • The Marshall Plan

  • Alger Hiss Case

  • Korean War begins

  • Rosa Parks incites the Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Vietnam War

  • John F. Kennedy becomes President.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • 1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon

  • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty signed with USSR

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    The United States since Vietnam

  • Watergate scandal: President Nixon fires three Attorneys General over disposition of the secret tapes and the actions of the Special Prosecutor.

  • Fall of Saigon

  • John Lennon assassinated

  • The animated comedy The Simpsons debuts

  • 1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait leading to the Gulf War.

  • Cold War ends as the USSR dissolves.

  • George W. Bush is inaugurated

  • September 11th terrorist attacks

  • The social networking site Facebook is launched

  • Recession officially begins in December.

  • Pop icon Michael Jackson dies, creating the largest public mourning for an entertainer since the death of Elvis Presley.

  • Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and mastermind of the September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by Navy Seals Team 6.