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- Growth
- Mining
- Ranching and Cattle Industry Boom
- Farming and Agricultural Innovation
- Conflict with Native Americans
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*Industrialization
*Monopolies
*Andrew Carnegie
*Immigration
*Urbanization (growth of cities) -
*US expansion overseas
*Spanish American War 1898
*Annexation of Hawaii
*Teddy Roosevelt -
*Democratic Reforms
*Regulation of Monopolies
*Consumer Protection
*Environmental Conversation
Women's Suffrage: 19th amendment
*Prohibition -
*Lusitania
*Zimmerman Telegram
*Trench Warfare
*Woodrow Wilson
*League of Nations -
*Jazz Age
*Flappers
*Prohibition
*The "new" KKK
*Scopes Trial -
*Stock Market Crash
*High unemployment
*Herbert Hoover
*Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal -
*Pearl Harbor
*Holocaust
*Adolf Hitler
*Europe and the Pacific
*Atomic Bomb -
*Soviet Union
*Communism
*Containment
*Arms Race
*Space Race - Sputnik 1957
*Espionage (spies) -
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rosa Parks
- Sit ins
- Browns vs. Board of Education
- "I Have a Dream"
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- Part of the Cold War
- U.S. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Draft
- Antiwar Movement
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*Inflation
*Oil Crisis
*Conservative Resurgence
*End of Cold War
*Technological Revolution -
- Globalization
- 9/11 Terrorist Attacks
- War on Terror
- Hurricane Katrina
- 2008 Economic Recession
- Election of Barack Obama