American History from 1877 to the Present

By ChristinaSeiber

  • Monroe Doctrine

    Monroe Doctrine
    The Monroe Doctrine stated that European countries should not intervene with countries south of the United States. Created by James Monroe.

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans.

  • James Addams and the hull house

    James Addams and the hull house
    In 1889 she and her college friend and intimate partner, Ellen Gates Starr, co-founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, the first settlement house in the United States.

  • Spanish American War

    Spanish American War
    In 1898 the United States will begin fighting with Spain
    The U.S. wanted Spain to allow cuba to be a free and independent nation

  • Open Door Policy

    Open Door Policy
    Created by the United States, would appear in China, It would give all imperial countries equal influence and equal trading opportunities within China.

  • Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League

    Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League
    she founded the National Consumers League, which was strongly anti-sweatshop.She worked tirelessly to establish a work-day limited to eight hours.

  • Hepburn Act

    Hepburn Act
    Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to limit rates if shippers complained of unfair treatments.

  • The Stock Market Crash of 1929

    The Stock Market Crash of 1929
    The Stock Market carsh was caused by many things. Depressed farms and industries, monetary policies, decrease in foreign trade, and President Hoovers response to the failing nation.

  • Invasion of Manchuria

    Japan needed raw materials and China was a close place to get them. They believed that they had a good reason to invade China's controlled Manchuria. Many countries became upset with their action, like the United States.

  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation

    Congress establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The R.F.C. is allowed to lend $2 billion to banks, insurance companies, building and loan associations, agricultural credit organizations and railroads.

  • Roosevelt Elected

    Roosevelt Elected
    Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency. Since Herbery Hoover did litttle to build our nation back up. Roosevelt was a better candidate.

  • Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany

    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. Hitler was working his way up and becoming well known so it would be easier to become a dictator eventually.

  • Montogomey Bus Boycott

    Started by Rosa Parks the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

  • Slema to Montgomery March

    More than 500 non-violent civil rights marchers are attacked by law enforcement officers while attempting to march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand the need for African American voting rights.

  • African Americans register to vote

    By the end of 1965, 250,000 new black voters are registered, one third of them by federal examiners.

  • Voting RIghts Act

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, permanently barring barriers to political participation by racial and ethnic minorities, prohibiting any election practice that denies the right to vote on account of race.

  • Strategic Defense Initiative

    SDI proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks, mostly from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983. parts of the defense system that Reagan supported would be based in space, the system was nicknamed "STAR WARS"

  • Carribean Basin Initiative

    the CBI provides countries with access to the U.S. market for most goods. And aimed to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries.

  • The Berlin Wall Collapses

    The Soviet Union ended and the city of Berlin was no longer divided between East Germany and West Germany. Therefore, the Berlin Wall was knocked down.

  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks

    Organized by Al Qaeda, terrorists took control of several planes in the united states. 2 of them crashing into the Twin Towers in New York, while the other crashed in a field in Pennslyvania.

  • Barack Obama

    Barack Obama is elected. He is the first African AMerican president to take office.