US History 1877-2003

By isabelaiyee

  • Imperialism

    Theodore Roosevelt
    Rough Riders
    Foreign Policy
    Immigration Quotas
    Yellow Journalism
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    Early American History

  • Declaration of Independence signed

  • Constitution written

  • Bill of Rights ratified

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    Civil War/Reconstruction

  • Homestead Act

    provided 160 acres to anyone willing to settle on land in the west

  • 13th Amendment:

    abolished slavery

  • 14th Amendment

    citizenship & due process

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

  • 15th Amendment:

    voting for all male citizens
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    The giled age (Big five)

    Rockefeller/Carnegie (Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons)
    Philanthropy
    Monopoly
    Jane Addams
    Laissez-Faire

  • Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

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    The Gilded Age

  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882):

    prohibited immigration of skilled or unskilled Chinese laborers, first US national immigration act

  • Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883):

    awarded government jobs based on merit

  • Interstate Commerce Act (1887):

    Interstate Commerce Act (1887): ensure railroad set “reasonable and just” rate and the first time government stepped in to regulate business

  • Dawes Act (1887):

    gave individual ownership of land to native americans instead of the tribe owning things collectively

  • Hull House founded, first of many settlement houses

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    The Progressive Era

  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    outlawed business monopolies
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    Klondike Gold Rush (Alaska)

  • USS Maine explodes off the coast of Cuba, starting the Spanish American War

  • Hawaii is annexed as a territory of the United States

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    Imperialism

  • Open Door Policy

    initiated free trade with China
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    Progressive era

    Muckrakers
    Initiative, Referendum, Recall
    The Great Migration
    NAACP
    Immigration Issues (Assimilation and Nativism)

  • Roosevelt Corollary

    an addition to the Monroe Doctrine
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    Panama Canal Built

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is published

  • Meat Inspection Act

    Meat Inspection Act (1906): law that makes it illegal to adulterate or misbrand meat

  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    regulation of the preparation of foods and the sale of medicines

  • NAACP Founded

  • Dollar Diplomacy (1909):

    Taft’s policy of paying for peace in Latin America

  • NAACP Founded

  • 16th Amendment:

    established the federal income tax

  • 17th Amendment:

    direct election of U.S. Senators

  • Federal Reserve Act

    established the Federal Reserve, which helped stabilize the banking industry

  • WWI

    Alvin York
    Homefront
    M.A.I.N. (Causes of WWI)
    Sussex Pledge
    American Expeditionary Forces

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I

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    World War I

  • : Sinking of the Lusitania

  • National Parks System created

  • National Parks System created

  • Zimmerman Telegram intercepted by the British, warned the U.S. of a proposed ally between Mexico and Germany

    -The United States enters WWI on the Allied side
    - Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins, causing Russian troops to exit the war

  • Battle of Argonne Forest, considered the turning point of the war

    Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers

  • President Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

    statement of principles for peace after World War I, included no colonialism, freedom of the seas, and a League of Nations

  • Treaty of Versailles

    : 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

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    Great Depression

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    World War II

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    Early Cold War

  • United Nations formed

  • 22nd Amendment:

    prohibits anyone who has been elected president twice from being elected again

  • Truman Doctrine

    U.S. policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

    program to help European countries rebuild after World War II

  • NATO established

  • Korean War

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    Civil Rights Era

  • Rosenbergs trial

  • First H-Bomb detonated by the United States

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    Vietnam War

  • Jonas Salk invents the Polio Vaccine

  • USSR launches Sputnik

  • Kent State University shooting

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    End of the Cold War

    Containment- stopping the spread of communism
    Arms Race/Space Race- US and Soviet Union
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics- Mikhail Gorbachev
    Communism- Berlin Wall came down, borders opened
    Domino Theory- when one country does one thing the other ones follow

  • Watergate Scandal, which leads to Nixon’s Resignation

  • Camp David Accords

  • 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