History Final

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    Manifest Destiny

    United States expanded westward.
  • Montana Became a Territory

    Montana Became a Territory

    The U.S. added Montana as a territory, causing the government to take land from natives
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    Reconstruction

    A period after the civil war where the U.S. tries to fix the problems in the country.
  • 14th Amendment Passed

    14th Amendment Passed

    Granted citizenship to emancipated slaves.
  • 15th Amendment Passed

    15th Amendment Passed

    African American men can vote.
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    Gilded Age

    Rapid economic growth period, where working class suffered but wealthy prospered
  • First Black Senator Elected

    First Black Senator Elected

    Hiram Revels from Mississippi is elected to the U. S. Senate
  • Battle of Little Bighorn

    Battle of Little Bighorn

    Native American army defeated Col. Custer's troops in a war over land. Custer was killed.
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Government took tribal land and gave it to farmers.
  • Gospel of Wealth published

    Gospel of Wealth published

    Andrew Carnegie telling people that they should share wealth instead of keeping it.
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    U.S. Imperialism

    America's influence on other countries
  • Sherman Antitrust Act

    Sherman Antitrust Act

    An act that made monopolies illegal
  • Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Wounded Knee Creek Massacre

    Lakota men, women, children were massacred.
  • Carnegie Steel founded

    Carnegie Steel founded

    Major steel producing company founded by Andrew Carnegie.
  • Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani

    American sugar planters and buisness men overthrew the queen.
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    Progressivism

    Period where improvements were made to the country to fix the mistakes of the Gilded age.
  • Plessy vs Ferguson

    Plessy vs Ferguson

    The government declared that is was ok if facilities enforced segregation as long as they were "seperate but equal"
  • Spanish-American War

    Spanish-American War

    Spain supposably sunk a U.S. ship and that started a war.
  • Explosion of the USS Maine

    Explosion of the USS Maine

    The USS Maine was sunk in Cuba's harbor. Nobody knows who sunk it, but the U.S. thinks it was Spain.
  • Prohibition Protests

    Prohibition Protests

    Movement to ban alcohol, it was popular in the south.
  • The Jungle Written

    The Jungle Written

    A book that tells the truth of industrialization.
  • Trust-busting/breakup of Standard Oil

    Trust-busting/breakup of Standard Oil

    U.S. Gov brok up Standard Oil because of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.
  • Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    Fire started in a factory and people died because of poor fire safety measures.
  • Building of Panama Canal

    Building of Panama Canal

    President Roosevelt build canal to connect the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean this allowed ships to pass through.
  • Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

    Prohibited child labor in factories
  • Passing of 19th Amendment

    Passing of 19th Amendment

    Allowed women to vote.