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American History Timeline

  • Creating the Constitution

    Creating the Constitution
    It was September 17, 1778, James Madison was writing the Constitution .
  • 7 Factors of America's Industrial Growth

    7 Factors of America's Industrial Growth
    1.Natural resources. Become goods, Raw materials.
    2.Capital. needed to pay for the production of goods, Stable currency.
    3.Labor supply. Used to make goods, High birth rate.
    4.Technology. Better ways to make more and better goods, 5.Electricity = more production power.
    Consumers. ...
    6.Transportation. ...
    7.Government support.
  • Old Immigrants

    Old Immigrants
    A Nation of Immigrants. The United States is a nation of immigrants. Every American is either an immigrant or has ancestors who were immigrants. Came prior to 1880
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny
    the 19th Century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the. US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
  • What motivated the settlers to move west

    What motivated the settlers to move west
    The Settlers were sometimes moved west because they wanted to make a better living the also recived letters from familyand frineds to move west .
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    Civil War .

    Issue / slavery
  • Homestead act

    Homestead act
    The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land
  • The wade Davis bill .

    The wade Davis bill .
    The Wade Davis Bill. A bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South .
  • The 13 Amendment

    The 13 Amendment
    The 13th Amendment is the Amendment that Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude is not excepted with out punishment
  • The Freedmen Bureau .

    The Freedmen Bureau .
    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was an agency of the United States.
  • The 14th Amendment .

    The 14th Amendment .
    The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The Amendment states that citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws .
  • Transcontinental Railroad .

    Transcontinental Railroad .
    The First Transcontinental Railroad was a railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa
  • The 15th Amendment .

    The 15th Amendment .
    The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color .
  • COMPROMISE OF 1877

    COMPROMISE OF 1877
    The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election.
  • New Immigrants

    New Immigrants
    "New immigration" was a term from the influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from Italy and Russia
  • Civil Rights Case of 1883

    Civil Rights Case of 1883
    The Civil Rights Cases . Were a group of five US Supreme Court constitutional law cases. Against the famous dissent of Justice Harlan,
  • Civil Service Act

    Civil Service Act
    The Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, which established that positions within the federal government
  • Interstate Commerce Act

    Interstate Commerce Act
    The Interstate Commerce Act is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.
  • Sherman Commerce Act

    Sherman Commerce Act
    The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.
  • Closing of that Frontier

    Closing of that Frontier
    Frederick Jackson Turner and the frontier. A year after the Oklahoma Land Rush, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that the frontier was closed
  • Plessy V Ferguson .

    Plessy V Ferguson .
    Plessy v. Ferguson, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court issued in 1896.
  • Transcontinental

    Transcontinental
    railroad making for the trains
  • Monopoly

    Monopoly
    The Monopoly was a time of greed where one compuny
  • John D Rockefeller .

    John D Rockefeller .
    ohn Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist.
  • The Gilded Age

    The Gilded Age
    The Gilded Age in US is the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term for this period came into use in the 1920s and 1930s and was derived from writer Mark Twain's
  • Andrew Carnegie.

    Andrew Carnegie.
    Andrew Carnegie was a business magnate, and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century .
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization
    Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change
  • The Progressive Era.

    The Progressive Era.
    The main objectives of the Progressive movement were eliminating problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.
  • The Civil Rights Movement .

    The Civil Rights Movement .
    The civil rights movement for a walk for African Americans with the goal of securing legal rights
  • Jim Crow Laws

    Jim Crow Laws
    Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation .
  • Diploid workers

    Diploid workers
    Diploid drones. Normally drones develop from unfertilized eggs and are haploid. Diploid drones
  • My Birthday

    My Birthday
    I was born in America.
  • Broke My Leg

    Broke My Leg
    It was 2017 I was riding in the back of an ambulance I had just broken my leg.