History timeline

  • Westward Expansion

    Westward Expansion
    -Growth of railroads
    -Mining
    -Ranching & cattle industry boom
    -Farming and agricultural innovation
    -Conflict with Native americans
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    Westward Expansion

  • Gilded Age

    Gilded Age
    -Industrialization
    -Monopolies
    -Andrew Carnegie
    -Immigration
    -Urbanization (growth of cities)
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    Gilded Age

  • U.S. Imperialism

    U.S. Imperialism
    -U.S. expansion overseas
    -Spanish american war 1898
    -Annexation of Hawaii
    -Teddy Roosevelt
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    U.S. Imperialsm

  • Progressive Era

    Progressive Era
    -Democratic reforms
    -Regulation of monopolies
    -Consumer protection
    -Environmental conservation
    -Woman's sufferage: 19th amendment
    -Prohibition
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    Progressive Era

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    World War !

  • World War I

    World War I
    -Lusitania
    -Simmerman Telegram
    -Trench warfare
    -Woodrow Wilson
    -League of Nations
  • Roaring Twenties

    Roaring Twenties
    -Jazz age
    -Flappers
    -Prohibition
    -The "new" KKK
    -Scopes trial
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    The Roaring Twenties

  • Great Depression

    Great Depression
    -Stock market crash
    -High unemployment
    -Herbert Hoover
    -Franklin D Roosevelt's new deal
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    Great Depression

  • World War II

    World War II
    -Peral harbor
    -Holocaust
    -Adolf Hitler
    -Europe and the pacific
    -Atomic bomb
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    World War II

  • Cold War

    Cold War
    -Soviet Union
    -Communism
    -Containment
    -Arms race
    -Space race
    -Sputnik
    -Espionage (Spies)
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    Cold War

  • Civil Rights Movement

    Civil Rights Movement
    -MLK Jr
    -Rosa Parks
    -Sit ins
    -Brown vs. board of education
    -"I have a dream"
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    -Part of the cold war
    -US supported south Vietnam against communist north Vietnam
    -LBJ
    -Draft
    -Antiwar movement
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    Civil Rights Movement

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    Vietnam War

  • Late 20th Century

    Late 20th Century
    -Inflation
    -Oil crisis
    -Conservative resurgance
    -End of cold war
    -Technological revolution
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    Late 20th Century

  • 21st Century

    21st Century
    Globalization
    9/11
    War on Terror
    -Hurricane Katrina
    -2008 economic recession
    -Election of Barack Obama
    -Beginning of second civil rights movement for Women, people of color, and LGBT+ community
    -Cripllping terror of the possibility that Donald trump will run the country
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    21st Century