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Early American History
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Civil War/Reconstruction
1869: Transcontinental Railroad
1876: Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
13th Amendment: abolished slavery
14th Amendment: citizenship & due process
15th Amendment: voting for all male citizens
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The Gilded Age
Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
Philanthropy
Monopoly
Jane Addams
Laissez-Faire 1889: Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses
1896-1899: Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska) Chinese Exclusion Act (1882): prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act
Interstate Commerce Act (1887): ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business -
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The Progressive Era
Muckrakers
Initiative, Referendum, Recall
The Great Migration
NAACP
Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)
1906: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published
1909: NAACP Founded
1916: National Parks System created
16th Amendment: established the federal income tax
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Imperialism
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Foreign Policy
Immigration Quotas
Yellow Journalism
1898: USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War
1898: Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States
1904-1914: Panama Canal Built
Open Door Policy (1899): initiated free trade with China
Roosevelt Corollary (1904): an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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World War 1
Alvin York
Homefront
M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
Sussex Pledge
American Expeditionary Forces
1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points (1918): statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles (1919): peace treaty that ended World War I, required Germany to accept full blame and pay war reparations as well as demilitarize -
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Roaring Twenties
Social Darwinism
The Red Scare
Assembly Line
Return to Normalcy
Harlem Renaissance
1922: Teapot Dome Scandal uncovered by the Wall Street Journal
1925: Scopes Monkey Trial
1927: Charles Lindbergh makes history by making a nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris
18th Amendment: prohibition is enacted and alcohol is illegal
19th Amendment: women are given the right to vote
20th Amendment: adjusted the dates of the presidential terms
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Great Depression
Hoovervilles
The New Deal
Causes of the Great Depression (5)
Court Packing
Eleanor Roosevelt
1929: Stock Market Crash
1930-1936: Dust Bowl
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
1932: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established
1933: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) established
1934: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
1935: Works Progress Administration (WPA) established
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World War II
Island Hopping
Liberation of Concentration Camps
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Chester W. Nimitz
Navajo Code Talkers
Tuskegee Airmen
Flying Tigers
The Manhattan Project
Rosie the Riveter
1939: Adolf Hitler invades Poland, starting WWII
1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
1942: Battle of Midway
1942: Bataan Death March
1944: “D-Day” - Invasion of Normandy
1945: The atomic bomb, “Little Boy” is dropped in Hiroshima, Japan (August 6)
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Early Cold War
Containment
Arms Race/Space Race
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Communism
Domino Theory
1945: United Nations formed
1948: Berlin Airlift
1949: NATO established
1950-1953: Korean War
1951: Rosenbergs trial
1952: First H-Bomb detonated by the United States
1955: Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine
1957: USSR launches Sputnik
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Civil Rights Era
Rights became evident and everyone was pleased and happy being equal. But were they really equal? 1955-1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks’ arrest
1957: Little Rock Nine integrated into an all-white school in Little Rock, AK
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Title IX
Sweatt v. Painter
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Vietnam War
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Berlin Wall is built
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Bay of Pigs
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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24th Amendment
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Martin Luther King " I have a dream"
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J.F.K. is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Voting of Rights Act
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Tet Offensive
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MLK is assassinated
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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First Man on the Moon
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Kent State University Shooting
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End of Cold War
The Cold War was coming to an end after the other countries tried to forget about the weapons the other ones had. -
Pentagon Papers leaked
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26th Amendment
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Title IX
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War Powers Act
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Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation
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Camp David Accords
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Three Mile Island Disaster
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Iran Contra Affair
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1990s-21st Century
The time we're in as I type this out.