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Industrialization and Progressivism (1877-1920)
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American Federation of Labor is formed
Samuel Gompers was the First President of the AFL. The people want better was to live and better job. The AFL was formed in Columbus, OHIO. -
Labor Retaliation Law
In 1888 they passed the First Federal Relations law. It was only for Rail Companies though. It was enacted by Congress. -
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Foreign Affair from Imperialism to Post WWI (1898-1930)
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Imperialism
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Teddy Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines
President Theodore Roosevelt establishes a naval base in the Philippines at Subic Bay. Gets the land from when they won against spain in the Spanish-American War. When there a naval warship exploded and they blamed Spain. -
The First Moroccan Crisis
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany arrives in Tangiers to declare his support for the sultan of Morocco. The central purpose of his appearance was to disrupt the Anglo-French Entente, formed in April 1904. Slightly more than two years before the outbreak of World War 1. -
Progressivism
Massachusetts adapts the first minimum wage law for women and minors. Women start to earn more rights in Massachusetts. They got the same wage as men. -
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Prosperity, Depression, and the New Deal (1919-1941)
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New Deal
President Herbert Hoover urged patience and self-reliance: He thought the crisis was just “a passing incident in our national lives”. When President Franklin Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to try and stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. By 1933, Toledo, Ohio's had reached 80 percent. -
Klu Klux Klan 2nd Klan Founded
The 2nd KKK was almost exactly like the first. Besides the fact that they burned crosses. They were also nation wide. -
The Great deppression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. It was mostly during the 1930's. Longest, deepest and most widespread deppression of the 1920's. -
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From Isolationism to World War (1930-1945)
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Lend-Lease Act
Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II. It authorized the president to transfer arms to other nations. To Chins, Britain, and the Soviet Union. -
Red Scare
We thought that we were going to be taken over be Communist. Which became called the Red Scare.The Red Scare led to a range of actions that had a profound and enduring effect on U.S. government and society. -
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Social Transformation in the United States (1945-1994)
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The Cold War (1945-1991)
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U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter
America's pre-World War II isolation was truly at an end, the U.S. Senate approves the charter establishing the United Nations. In July 1945, with World War II coming to a close, the U.S. Senate indicated the sea change in American attitudes toward U.S. involvement in world affairs by saying yes for the United Nations.Once the charter had been ratified by a majority of the 50 nations that hammered out the charter in June 1945, the U.S. Senate formally approved U.S. participation. -
The Space Race
the Cold War, this battle pitted the world’s two great powers–the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union–against each other. Begining in the 1950's was really important in the evolvement of science. Soviet was the first one in space but we were first to the moon. -
Eisenhower rejects calls for U.S. "isolationism"
President Eisenhower gets mad at the critics of his Cold War foreign policy. He insisted that we were in battle against Communism. The "bigger bang for the buck" defense strategy was made. -
Invention of the Internet
After sputniks launch we really started to get serious about science. In 1965, another M.I.T. scientist developed a way of sending information from one computer to another that he called “packet switching.” Vinton Cerf’s protocol transformed the Internet into a worldwide network. -
U.S. IMMIGRATION SINCE 1965
By the early 1960s, calls to reform U.S. immigration policy had mounted, thanks in no small part to the growing strength of the civil rights movement. immigration was based on the national-origins quota system in place since the 1920s. Congress began debating and would eventually pass the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 -
Civil rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, sit-ins and riots became commonplace, leaders were assassinated on a eemingly regular basis. The tension that had been increasingly brewing over the previous years finally came to a head. When both Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated, riots broke out at the Democratic ational
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Arms Race
The buildup of arms was also a characteristic of the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. We wanted to be the best. Thedevelopment of neuclear weapons changes the stakes. -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact remained intact until 1991. In 1990, East Germany left the Pact and reunited with West Germany; the reunified Germany then became a member of NATO. In March 1991, the military alliance component of the pact was dissolved and in July 1991, the last meeting of the political consultative body took place. -
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United States and the Post-Cold War World (1991 to present)
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Post Cold War U.S.
For the first time in over half a century, no single great power, or coalition of powers, poses a "clear and present danger" to the national security of the United States. The passing of the Cold War world by no means implies an end to American involvement in whatever world is to follow. The end of the Cold War has left Americans in the fortunate position of being without an obvious major adversary. -
Post Cold War
The Post Cold War era is the period in world history from the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present. It has seen the United States become by far the most powerful country in the world and the rise of China from a relatively weak third world country to a fledgling superpower. The United States (formed in 1783) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (formed in 1917) are the Superpowers.
