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Democrat Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederacy
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1492
Christopher Columbus "Founds" New World
Christopher was sailing on an expedition to get resources for Spain with a new route and accidentally found the New World -
1492
Columbian exchange
It was after Columbus finds the New World he decides to make an exchange of goods between different colonies and regions with trading of goods and resources. -
Period: 1492 to
European Exploration Era
Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge. -
1500
Spanish Encomienda System Begins
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1500
Spanish Casta System Begins
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Period: 1500 to
Triangular Trade
it was system that they did between colonies -
Period: 1500 to
Middle Passage
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1512
Spainish Conquistador Hernan Cortex Conquers the Aztec Empire
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1520
Small Pox Begins Spreading to Native Americans
Before Columbus came to the New World they never had such a thing call small pox. So when they came over they brought the disease with them. You see they grew immune but the Natives immune system could not handle it. -
1534
England Splits from Catholic Church
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London Company Gains Charter for Set Up English Colony
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Jamestown Virginia Colony founded
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Colonial Era
European settlements from the start of colonization -
French found Quebec on the St. Lawrence River and Engage in the Fur Trade
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Tobacco introduced to Virginia Colony by John Rolfe
Tobacco was the main things they sold and grow to make money -
First African Slaves Arrive in Jamestown, Virginia Colony
They depended on slaves because they have lots of farming land and needed people to work on it. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the elected representative -
Plymouth Massachusetts Colony Founded
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Mayflower Compact
First self gov created -
New Hampshire Founded
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Dutch New Amsterdam Becomes of New Netherland
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City Upon a Hill John Winthrop
The puritans was consider the city upon the hill because the believe they were the examples of how God children should live and be -
The Great Migration to Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Maryland Founded
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Thomas Hooker Finds Connecticut
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Pequot War
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Roger Williams finds Rhode Island
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Harvard College Founded in Massachusetts
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Delaware Founded
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Maryland Toleration Act
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North Carolina was Founded
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Iroquois Confederacy Formed
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Navigation Acts and Mercantilism
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South Carolina was Founded
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New York Funded
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New Jersey Founded
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King Phillips War
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Bacons Rebellion
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Pueblo Revolt
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Quaker William Penn Founds Pennsylvania
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Enlightenment Era
The enlightment era was a time period where philopshper and a bunch of colonist start to get together and realize the unfairness of the Crown -
John Locke's Two Treaties of Government Published
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English Bill of Rights
outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy -
Salem Witch Trials
mainly in Massachusetts people were being accused of doing witchcraft so they were killed or punished -
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Salutary Neglect Policy
British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws -
The Great Awakening
It encourage religious freedom and to worship our belief the way we choose -
Georgia Founded as a Debtors Colony
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Stono Rebellion
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French and Indian War Begins
England and French never like each other so when it came to the Ohio land they disputed who gets it causing the seven years war to begin -
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The Industrial Revolution
It was the growing of industry's and growing of manufacturing -
French and Indian War ends
French end up losing the battle and plus they had to give up the big land the already owned and go settles on a small piece of land they also owned -
Proclamation Line of 1763
prevent colonist from settling west -
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Revolutionary Era
was the timespan where America revolution started and we fought for our independence -
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Republican Motherhood
this gave women rights to go to school and get an education only to teach their children at home -
Sugar Act
was a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain -
Stamp Act
requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents -
Quartering Act
parliamentary provision requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their town -
Townshed Acts
it was created to raise renevue is the colonies -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense Published
Its a pamphlet that advocates independence from Britian -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
it was the first battle of the revoultionary war -
Continental Army lead by General George Washington
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Declaration of Independence
It was a document that stated America will no longer follow under Britian laws anymore -
Adam Smith Publishes "The Wealth of Nations"
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Winter at Valley Forge
This was during the time where America was fighting for Independence and they had scarce food and nothing to get them warm, but George Washington stand with his men and gave them advice to keep pushing forward -
Battle of Saratoga
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Articles of Confederation
The first Constitution written for the new develop nation. That worked for a short time period before having to write a new better one -
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Abolition Movement
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Battle of YorkTown
This battle won us our independence because the French had join our side by this time and they trapped the British men between them or the body of water behind them -
Treaty of Paris of 1783
It was based off of the boudaries and limits and freedom of now newly form of America -
Shays' Rebellion
A group of local citizens Massachusetts mainly famers in where being taxed in the new nation so they decided to not pay taxes, so Washington sent troops down there to make them pay taxes (weakness of Articles of Confederation) -
Federalist papers
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U.S. Constitution
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The Great Compromise
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The 3/5th Compromise
it was saying every 3 out of 5 slaves were consider 1 vote when they needed them politically -
Constitutional Convention/ Philadelphia
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Bill of Rights Added to U.S. Constitution
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Washington Elected 1st President
Washington was elected unanimously mainly because America citizens believed he had all the characteristic that is needed to be a good leader -
Washington Creates Presidential Cabinet
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The French Revolution Begins
This happens after the American Revolution and it lead to French colonist wanting to over throw there queen and king, but leads to their death instead -
Washington D.C. Becomes New US Capital
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The Second Great Awakening
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Alexander Hamilton Gets Congress to Approve National Bank
The only reasons he gets it because he made a deal with Jefferson that where ever the States' capital is he gets to be in their backyard -
Whiskey Rebellion
This was the tax on Whiskey that many citizens rebelled against -
Cotton Gin and the Interchangeable Parts Invented by Eli Whitney
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Washington's Farewell Address
This was a letter that basically told America not to get into conflict or into debt with other nation. To stay independent and by themselves because we are still developing as their own -
First Two-Party System Created ( Dem-Rep vs Federalist
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XYZ Affairs
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John Adams( Federalist) Elected 2nd President
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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Election of 1800 and the start of the Jeffersonian Era
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The Market Revolution Begins
This was the uprising of industry that benefited both North and South plus started things like transportation -
Cult of Domesticity Begins
In the before the 1800's it was really uncommon for women to work and was frowned upon if they did. This basically states what a common women should do; stay home, watch children -
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Manifest Destiny
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Thomas Jefferson(Democratic-Republican) Elected 3rd President
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Steam Locomotive Invented in Great Britain
It was the first developed in Britain and transported on railways -
Louisiana Purchase
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Marbury v. Madison
In the election of 1800 Adams lost to Jefferson, but before Adams left office he sent Madison out to deliver letters so more Federalist can be in office. Marbury didn't get his letter until late so, he went to Judicial court giving the case -
James Madison(Democratic-Republican) Elected 4th President
Was elected president and one thing he did was lead America into the War of 812 -
War Hawks in Congress Support War Against British
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British Impressment of US Sailors
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War of 1812 Begins
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Treaty of Ghent
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Francis Scott Key Writes the Star-Spangled Banner
It was inspired from the War of 1812 -
Federalist Party Collapses
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Era of Good Feelings
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Tariff of 1816
This Tariff benefited the industry being created but hurt farmers who was taxed higher. This tariff was passed by Congress -
James Monroe(Democratic-Republican) Elected 5th President
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Adam- Onis Treaty/Spain Ceded Florida to U.S.
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Compromise of 1820
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Universal Male Suffrage Begins to Rise
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Monroe Doctrine
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Henry Clay's "American System"
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Erie Canal Bulit
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John Quincy Adams(Democratic-Republican) Elected 6th President
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Lowell, Massachusetts Textile Mill Employs Women
This was once of the first job developed for women to work and make money off of even though it wasn't a lot at all -
Andrew Jackson(Democratic) Elected 7th President
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Second Two-Party System Created(Democrats vs Whigs)
At the time Jackson was running for president and did not agree with the Republican ways so he became just a Democrat after awhile Whigs (Republicans) started to oppose his way of thinking like Henry Clay. -
Indian Removal Act
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Abolition Movement Begins
The Abolition movement was for the stop of slavery. It was mainly popular in the North. -
Congress Passes Preemption Acts
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Trail of Tears Begins
The trail of tears was the removal of Native Americans off of their land to another unwanted land. On the way thousands died from hunger, diseases and more -
William Lloyd Garrison Publishes Abolitionist Newspaper "The Liberator"
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Andrew Jackson Vetos National Bank
Andrew feels as if the National bank only helped the rich and wanted it to end. So when congress gave him the law he vetoed it putting it to a end -
Nullification Crisis
South Carolina wanted to break away from the nation because they felt they were being treated unfairly but Andrew would not let them in fact Andrew Jackson vice president agreed and was from Carolina and Jackson threatened him if he left he, his head would leave his body -
Pendleton Act
This made sure if you were working in government you had to be qualified -
Texas Revolution and Independence from Mexico
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Horace Mann Advocates for Public Schools
Horace was a man who thought that public schools should be open to everyone and also it should be free. Educated should not limited. -
Increased Irish and German Immigration to the North
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Federal Support Given to Samuel Morse to Construct Telegraph Lines
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Dorothea Dix Advocates for Mentally Ill and Prison Reform
Dorothea fought for the mental ill, she believe that they should be put in a place for help, also its very unsanitary in the jails and some died from the unclean environment plus they got torture and Dorothea fought against it -
James K.Polk Elected Us President (Democrat)
Polk only served a 4year term by choice, he believed in manifest destiny and westward expansion and after he completed his goal he no longer wanted to be president. -
Irish Potato Famine Begins
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Texas Annexation by the United States
After being denied the first time, President Polk decide to annex Texas providing protection and while Texas provided resources -
Frederick Douglass Publishes Autobiography “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”
This was a book written in a former slaves pov
proving salves are not all illtreated -
Oregon Territory Divided Between British and U.S.
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Mexican American War Begins
This war begins over territory and how big Texas was. -
Wilmot Proviso
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Seneca Falls Convention
This was for women suffrage that will eventually lead to women having more rights -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Mexican American War Ends
This ends the fighting of the War it also gives America more land. -
Mexican Cession
This is what the land given up by the Mexican territory was called -
Free Soil Movement Begins
This was the support of no slavery in the west or moving west free or not. -
California Gold Rush
Where gold was discover in California so people went to streams and river to filter them out -
Fugitive Slave Law Passed in Compromise of 1850
This said that any runaway slaves must be returned back to the South. -
Compromise of 1850
made California a free state
Gave New Mexico and Utah the right to choose to be free or not
Fugitive slave law -
Harriet Tubman Begins Using Underground Railroad
Harriet risk her life to help free slaves and escape, through safe houses and help from others -
Harriet Beecher Stowe Publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
A book written by a white women on how slave is actually treated -
Gasden Purchase
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Republican Party Created
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Kansa-Nebraska Act
This was Kanas and Nebraska wanting to disregard the Compromise of 1850 and vote if they want to become slaves states or not. -
Bleeding Kanas Begins
This was fights between people who supported slavery vs the ones who didnt -
Caring of Senator Summer
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Dred Scott v. Standford
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia
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Republican Abraham Lincoln Wins Presidential Election of 1860
Even though Abraham won the southern states did as promise if he won and started to secede from the Union -
Seven Southern States Secede from the Union, Forming the Confederate States of America
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Battle of Fort Summer
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Lincoln Suspends Habeas Corpus
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The Civil War
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Homestead Act
It gave new found citizens the rights to own land -
Emancipation Proclamation
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
This was the bloodiest and most deadly battle of the Civil War -
Gettysburg Address
This was president Lincoln speech on the war in general and how as the war is coming close to an end, he shall not punish the south as both sides are just as guilty and they should work on being a better Union as a whole. -
13th Amendment
No more slaves
African Americans are free -
Gen. Lee Surrenders to Gen. Grant at Appomattox Court House
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President Andrew Johnson Becomes President
He supported the freedom of slaves but limited their rights to little to none causing African Americans to be still treated like second-class citizens -
Johnson Pardons the South
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Radical Republicans Champion for Black Civil Rights in Congress
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Freedmens Bureau Created
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Black Codes First Passed in the South
This limited African Americans rights by alot -
Scallywags and Carpetbaggers
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President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
A tragic murder of Lincoln and even though Booth thought he was doing good by the south, he was the most wanted man by both the north and south at the time. -
Sharecropping Begins in the South
Southern found a loophole within have slaves but legally
making them sign contacts that have them work for them until a debt is payed of which lasted years -
Ku Klux Klan
a cult rising of Christian white males to harass and or kill African Americans -
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Reconstruction Era
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Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
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14th Amendment
African Americans are now citizens -
Transcontenital Railroad Completed
This made it more easier cheaper and no-time consuming
to ship products and people -
15th Amendment
African American males can vote -
Industrialization Begins to Boom
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Social Darwinism Theory Gains popularity
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Nativism Spreads
This was people who did not support immigrants at all and wanted them out -
Standard Oil Company founded by John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller will soon be running his own monopoly from the industry of Oil -
Jim Crow Laws Begins in South
This segregated everyone -
Hiram Rhode Revels Becomes First African American in Congress(Senate)
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Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
Tweed was a political boss who ran the a political machine
getting immigrants to vote for the elector of his choosing in exchange of helping the immigrants out -
Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell
This made it easier for people to communicate from a distance -
Reconstruction Ends
This stops the north from watching over the South in meaning the South started to enforce Jim Crow Laws and started breaking rules -
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Glided Age
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Light Bulb invented by Thomas Edison
This made factories stay open longer and people to stay up later as they depended on sun lights to begin -
3rd Wave of immigration "New Immigrants"
This cause more immigrants to start to work and started to be treated unfairly as the Americans found them as threats -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This stop the Chinese from working in America for 10 years but it continued even afterwards -
Pendleton Act
This was when you had to actually have experience to work in government -
Haymarket Massacre
This was a bombing cause by a person going on strike towards authorities -
Dawes Act
This kick native America off their land onto unwanted land and made them change majority of their traditions to be "more American" -
Interstate Commerce Act
This made railroads have to find reasonable and just act for all passengers -
Chicago's Hull House started by Jane Addams
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Andrew Carnegie's Book "Gospel of Weath"
Andrew believe if you were rich you should give you money to charity's or back to smaller communities because they were beneath them -
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
This made all commerce monopolies illegal -
How the Other Half Lives
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Boxer Rebellion
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Influence of Sea Power Upon Sea Power
America believed with a stronger with stronger sea power they will be able to expand and protect land outside the already formed states -
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Imperialism
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Progressive Era
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Carnegie Steel Company founded by Andrew Carnegie
This will led Carnegie to great success and make him a monopoly owner -
Homestead Steel Labor Strike
This was a strike against Steel company for a fair wage. -
Pullman Labor Strike
This was a strike against the nationwide railroad -
Annexation of Hawaii
This is when America over threw Hawaii queen and after awhile annex to America -
Spanish American War
A war between Spain and America for Cuba independence -
Open Door Policy
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Roosevelt's Big Stick Diplomacy/Roosevelt Corollary
This was Roosevelt letting Britain and everyone one else if they try to take over land anywhere on the western Hemisphere they will be ready to go to war and defend all independent territory from being taken over -
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
Made it easier to ship resources all around America plus was much quicker -
Pure Food and Drug Act
This was to support hygiene and cleansing in a work environment like the meat industry and other food places -
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
This was a book published describing the nasty and unsanitary style of work mainly in the meat market which people had to eat, with things like rats scat everywhere and unwashed hands -
Ford Model-T
The creation of cars faster by assembly lines -
NAACP started by W.E.B. Du Bois
This was an organization created to help and support the African American people socially and politically for just and equal rights -
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William Howard Taft
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16th Amendment
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Federal Reserve Act
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Period: to
Woodrow Wilson
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17th Amendment
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
The was the start of advance in in industries which made the fighting more deadly and more impactful on history -
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This what started World War 1 and the alliance teaming up against one another -
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World War I
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Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
This was Germany telling Mexico that they can win their independence back from America if they fight on their side it didn't work but America seen Germany as a threat after that -
Russian Revolution
This was Germany master plan to get Russian out of the War and made them have a revolution to stop their aid against them -
U.S. entry into WWI
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Germany Declares an Armistice
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Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
This stop the fighting temporally but every country basically knew another war was bound to happen again -
18th Amendment
Women and church groups advocate against alcohol and for a certain period pf time liquor was banned from consumption and selling -
19th Amendment
Women rights to vote -
President Harding's Return to Normalcy
After War Harding wanted everyone to return to the society before the war even happen/ like the war didn't happen -
Harlem Renaissance
The creation of new dances and new clothing
like Flappers and the Charleston plus Jazz music mad by African Americans mainly from the South -
Red Scare
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Roaring Twenties
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Teapot Dome Scandal
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Joseph Stalin Leads Soviet Union
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Scopes "Monkey" Trial
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Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight
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Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"
This was cause by to much use of credit, no government control, and more which left many people in bankrupt which will lead to the Great Depression -
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
A killing of a gang by another all caused by bootlegging because of the 18th Amendment which banned alcohol
