America Timeline

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    CH 6: Industrialization

  • Ch 6: Transcontinental Railroad

    The Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met, this increased the amount of trade and travel throughout the US,
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    CH 7: Immigrants and Urbanization

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    CH 8: Life at the Turn of the 20th Century

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    CH 9: The Progressive Era

  • Ch 7: Ellis Island

    On Jan 1, 1892, Ellis Island first opened in the New York Harbor as the main gateway into the "New World."
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    CH 10: America Claims an Empire

  • CH 8: "Separate but Equal Clause"

    As the outcome of Plessy V. Ferguson, the supreme court passed this clause that supported the idea of racial segregation.
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    CH 11: The FIrst World War

  • CH 10: America Joins the War

    Woodrow Wilson delivers his war resolution and USA joins the war.
  • CH 11: WWI

    World War 1 ends, Treaty of Versailles proposed.
  • Ch 9: Women's Suffrage

    In 1919 Congress passed the 19th amendment to give women the right to vote.
  • CH 12: Red Scare

    After the czarist regime in Russia was overthrown, Americans began to fear the spread of communism.
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    CH 12: Politics of the Roaring Twenties

  • CH 13: Prohibition

    The 18th amendment came into effect prevent the use of alcoholic beverages.
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    CH 13: The Roaring Life of the 1920s

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    CH 14: The Great Depression Begins

  • CH 14: Stock Market Crash

    The stock market plunges and millions of Americans withdraw/lose their investment, this starts the Great Depression.
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    CH 16: World War Looms

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    CH 15: The New Deal

  • CH 15: Hundred Days

    Once FDR came to Office her launched a period of reform for the country.
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    CH 17: The US in WW2

  • CH 16: Pearl Harbor

    Japan launches an ariel attack on the USA's main naval base in Hawaii, causing America to join the war.
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    CH 18: Cold War Conflicts

  • CH 17: Bombing of Nagasaki

    US bombers drop an atomic bomb on one of Japan's largest cities, killing about 200,000 people and causing Japan to surrender in the days to come.
  • CH 18: Containment

    George Kennan proposes a policy of containment to stop the spread of communism.
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    CH 19: The Postwar Boom

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    CH 21: Civil Rights

  • CH 19: Baby Boom

    In postwar America the baby boom takes place and millions of Americans are born.
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    CH 20: The New Frontier and the Great Society

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    CH 22: The Vietnam War Years

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    Ch 23: An Era of Social Change

  • CH 20: Great Society

    LBJ proposes his vision for America, preventing poverty and ending racism through the Great Society.
  • CH 23: NOW

    The National Organization for Women forms to pursue women's goals.
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    CH 24: An Age of Limits

  • CH 21: MLK Killed

    MLK was assassinated in Memphis.
  • CH 22: Withdrawl from Vietnam

    Nixon begins the process of retreating from Vietnam.
  • CH 24: Watergate

    Men broke into the Watergate institute, eventually leading to Nixon quitting.
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    CH 25: The Conservative Tide

  • CH 25: Reagan Election

    Ronald Reagan is elected and begins the movement of Conservatives and Repblican party grows,
  • CH 26: Internet

    The Internet becomes much more popular in this decade, it makes access of information easier, and communication, shopping, listening to music, and other luxuries become easier to access.
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    The United States in Today's World