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The Gilded Age
The 1880s and 1890s were years of substantial technological innovation, mass immigration, and intense political happenings, including disputes over currency, tariffs, political corruption and patronage, and railroads and business trusts. (1877-1900) -
U.S Imperialism
During this period, Teddy Roosevelt was our most remembered president, and also during this time frame America expanded overseas, and we annexed Hawaii. (1898-1914) -
Progressive Era
during the Progressive Era, America witnessed Democratic Reforms, the regulations of Monopolies, and the addition of the 19th amendment. (1900-1919) -
World War I
The United States was not a nation ready for war in 1914. With a small army and a pitiful navy, the U.S. was no match for either side in the great conflagration in Flanders' Fields. As the war continued, however, German use of submarines to sink neutral shipping—including, most famously, the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 with the death of almost 1,200 people, 128 of them Americans—brought American public opinion to the Allied side.(1914-1918) -
The Roaring Twenties
Sexual mores, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many others, the United States seemed to be changing in undesirable ways. The result was a thinly veiled "cultural civil war," in which a pluralistic society clashed bitterly over such issues as foreign immigration, evolution, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, women’s roles, and race. (1920-1929) -
the Great Drepression
Stock Market Crash of 1929, high unemployment rates, F.D.R's New Deal.
(1929-1941) -
world War II
The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan is what led to U.S involvement in the war, the Holocaust was in full swing, Adolf Hitler was in complete power of Germany and other countries, invention of the atomic bomb.
(1939-1945) -
The Cold War
Theory of containment for Communism, the Arms race, the Space race (launch of sputnik in 1957), espionage.
(1945-1991) -
Civil Rights Movement
M.L.K Jr, Rosa Parks, lots of sit-ins were held and both the i have a dream" speech and the Brown vs Board of Education trial occurred in this era.
(1954-1968) -
Late 20th Century
Major inflation, the Oil crisis, conservative resurgence, end of the cold war, giant technological advances.
(1970-1999) -
U.S in the 21st century
mass globalization, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, Economic recession, Election of first black president. (2000-present) -
Vietnam War
part of the cold war, South Vietnam/America V.s Communist north Vietnam. Drafts were put into place, Anti-war Movement.
(1954-1975)
