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Manifest Destiny
Moving westward after Reconstruction. It was our "God given right" to move westward. -
President Ulysses S. Grant
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Compromise of 1877
Consessions given to the South post reconstruction.
1. Federal funds for internal improvements.
2. Southerns in cabinet positions
3. Withdrawal of federal troops. -
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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James Abram Garfield
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Chester Alan Arthur
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Chinese Exclusion Act
Prohibited Chinese labor immigration for 10 years. The date was extended twice. -
Pendleton Act
President Arthur passed this act to set up civil service exams for public office after President Garfield was assassinated by a man wanting a political office but wasn't qualified. -
Grover Cleveland
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Interstate Commerse Act
Required railroad rates to be "reasonable and just." Helped set up price controls. -
Benjamin Harrison
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Jim Crow Laws
Poll taxes and literary tests keep blacks from voting.They created a segregated society in the South. -
McKinley tariff
This tariff put a tax on all goods manufactured by a foreign country. The purpose of this tariff was to put an emphasis on buying american made goods. -
Grover Cleveland
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William McKinley
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USS Maine Explosion
The USS Maine was a warship that was anchored in Havana harbor. It exploded and 260 American men were killed -
Spanish American War
First move by the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century to become a Global Power. Our navy allowed us to gain control over many new territories that enables us to beef up our military. -
Battle of San Juan Hill
US forces win the battle of San Juan in the Spanish American War. -
Hawaii became a US Territory
Hawaii was full of American sugar planters. The new monarch wanted to kick them out and a revolution began. -
Wilmington Race Riot
Black men were attacked after voting by white men outside the government building. 14 black men were killed on that day. -
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Galveston Hurricane
Deadliest hurricane in US history. Between 6.000-12.000 fatalities. -
Theodore Roosevelt
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Roosevelt Corollary
Roosevelt extended the Monroe doctrine with his speech about American power. The US became the policeman of the Western Hemisphere. -
San Fransisco Earthquake
A 7,8 magnitude earthquake that killed 3000 people and destroyed eighty percents of the city. -
William Howard Taft
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Woodrow Wilson
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Federal Reserve Act
This act created 12 districts. each district with its own federal reserve bank. Created the federal reserve board to regulate the system. -
WWI Began
The War to end all wars began. Then it was called the Great War. -
Federal Trade Act
Created the Federal Trade Commision to investigate unfair business prarices -
Clayton Act
Declared monopolies and other business practices illegal. Extended the Sherman Antitrust Act. -
America enters WWI
Selective Service was passed by congress due tp not having enough forces to enter the war. -
Treaty of Verailles 1919
This treaty was signed at the end of WWI. New nations were created and Germany owned $337 bilion for the war. -
18th Amendment
Prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohomlic beverages. Decreased drunkenness, speakeasies operated, bootlegging and smoggling flourished, and organized crime control many public officals. -
19th amendment
The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote. After the roeles women played in WWI, it was a natural step to give them the right to vote. -
Warren Gamaliel Harding
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President Calvin Coolidge
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Scopes Monkey Trials begin
John T. Scopes was tried for teaching Darwin evolution in a high school classroom. He was found guilty and fined, but the decision was set aside. -
Stock Market Crash
A dramatic decline in stock proces caused a panic. Investors rapidly sold their stocks sending the stock market in a downward spiral. -
Great Depression Began
The Great Depression started soon after the Stock Market crash on October 28, 1929. Many Americans were homeless, jobless, and starving. -
President Herbert Clark Hoover
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
This tariff raised the tax on 20,000 different goods to protect the production of American products.This led to many boycotts. -
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Dust Bowl
Farmers had cleared large areas of the great plains for agriculture. Drought and winds caused huge dust storms. It kill people and animals from Dust pneumonia. -
Good Neighbor policy
Isolationist idea that the United States would stay out of the affairs of other countries. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment repealed the 18th amendment. -
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Hitler Annexed Austria
He annexed Austria says=ing that he was helping Germany in the country. -
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Germany signed the nonagression pact with Russia saying that Russia would not interfere in Poland if Germany wouldn't interfere in the Baltic States -
Lease-Lend Act
President could lend or lease goods to anyone whose defense was vital to the United States. -
Germany invaded Russia
Hitler violated the nonagression pact and invaded hoping to oil and mineral resources. -
Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor
Japanese General Tojo launched a surprise attack on the naval base hoping to preserve their empire in the Pacific. -
Battle of Stalingrad
Russains defeated the German army of 300,000. -
Battle of Alamein
British defeated Germans in North Korea leading to full Allied invasion of Afroca and Italy. -
Operation Overlord
D-Day. Cross-channel invasion by the Allies into northern France. Allied forces recaptured Paris anf drove the Germans to Berlin. -
Yalta Conference
Stalin, Churchill, and FDR met to discuss the end of the war. They agreed to divide, occupy, and denazify Germany. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe. Hitler commited suicide and Germany surrendered. -
Potsdam Conference
Leaders agreed to direction of postwar Germany and all dedicated to the unconditional surrender of Japan. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
To end quickly end the war, the US dropped Atomic bombs on two important cities in Japan to force surrender. One bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
To end quickly end the war, the US dropped Atomic bombs on two important cities in Japan to force surrender. One bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
Victory was achieved after dropping the Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
Treaty of Versailles 1945
This treaty ended WWII. Major Arms reducction in the Axis countries. Germany is divided into Communist east and Democratic west. United Nations is founded. Soviet Union anf the United States emerge as Superpowers. Atomic age begins. -
Nuremburg Trials begin
The nuremburg trials were a series of tribunals in which prominent members of the Nazi party were persecuted for their involvement in the war and crimes against humanity with the Holocaust. -
President Harry S. Truman
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President Dwight David Eisenhower
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Vietnam War begans
The Americans supported the French in Vietnam when war broke out because the Communists were denied freedom whenasking to split from the French after WWII. -
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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President Lyndon Baines Johnson
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President Richard Milhous Nixon
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President Gerald Rudolph Ford
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President James Earl Carter, Jr.
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President Ronald Wilson Reagan
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President George Herbert Walker Bush
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Treaty of Paris of 1989
Ended the Spanish American War. -
President William Jefferson Clinton
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President George Walker Bush
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Hurricane Katrins
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Most of New Orleans was left under water. Thousands of people were lift without homes and had to move throughout the Southeast. -
President Barack Hussein Obama
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Espionage and Sedition Acts
Just like the Alien and Sedition Acts on 1798. It violated the 1st amendment act. Everything German and disloyal was attacked, No one could speak or act disloyal in anyway.
