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18th Amendment (1920)

1820

1. many state governments passed state-wide prohibition in the early 1900s
2. Congress passed a resolution in 1917 regarding nationwide prohibition to be presented to the states for ratification.
3. was ratified on January 16, 1919, banning the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol.

Homestead Act

1862

old people could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.

• 13th Amendment (1865)

1865

The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

• 14th Amendment (1868)

1868

The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868

Transcontinental Railroad Completed

1869

transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history.

Industrialization Begins to Boom

1870

Society no longer has the support of the collective consciousness.

• 15th Amendment (1870)

1870

It was ratified on February 3, 1870, as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall

1871

an American politician most notable for being the "boss"

Telephone Invented

1876

a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation

Reconstruction Ends

1877

the history of American civil rights.

• Jim Crow Laws Start in South (1877)

1877

were state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation.

Light Bulb Invented

1878

An incandescent light bulb

3rd Wave of Immigration

1880

when the United States had 75 million residents.

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882

A federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur

Pendleton Act

1883

Act provided for selection of some government employees

Dawes Act

1887

Native American heads of families and individuals.

Interstate Commerce Act

1887

the government to fix specific rates.

Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth

1889

an article written by Andrew Carnegie

Chicago’s Hull House (1889)

1889

1. a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States
2. was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.
3. Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

1890

the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices.

Gilded Age

1890

an era that occurred during the late 19th century.

Klondike Gold Rush

1890

a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors

How the Other Half Lives

1890

1. examines the lives of the poor in New York City's tenements.
2. a journalist and photographer, uses a combination of photographs
3. prose to depict life in poverty-stricken urban areas.

• Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890)

1890

1. a history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
2. a two-volume work that argued that sea power was the key to military and economic expansion.
3. an instant classic that proved highly influential in both American and foreign circles.

Homestead Steel Labor Strike

1892

a battle between strikers and private security agents.

Pullman Labor Strike

1894

a nationwide railroad strike in the United States

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities

Annexation of Hawaii (1897)

1897

1. the treaty effort was blocked when the newly-formed Hawaiian Patriotic League
2. successfully petitioned the U.S. Congress in opposition of the treaty.
3. the Joint Resolution passed and the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States.

Spanish American War (1898)

1898

1. an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898.
2. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba
3. U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

Open Door Policy (1899)

1899

1. a statement of principles initiated by the United States in 1899 and 1900.
2. It called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China
3. the support of Chinese territorial and administrative integrity.

• Assassination of President McKinley (1901)

1901

1. he gravitated toward socialist and anarchist ideology.
2. He claimed to have killed McKinley because he was the head of what Czolgosz thought was a corrupt government.
3. Czolgosz was convicted and executed in an electric chair on October 29, 1901.

• Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins (1904)

1904

1. Seemingly not grasping the lessons from the French effort
2. the Americans devised plans for a sea-level canal along the roughly 50-mile stretch from Colón to Panama City. 3.businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

The Jungle

1906

1. exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago.
2. similar industrialized cities.
3. The novel portrays the harsh conditions

Pure Food and Drug Act

1906

1. the first of a series of significant consumer protection laws
2. was enacted by Congress in the 20th century
3. the creation of the Food and Drug Administration.

NAACP

1909

1.the nation's oldest civil rights organization.
2. the association led the black civil rights struggle in fighting injustices
3. the denial of voting rights, racial violence, discrimination in employment, and segregated public facilities.

theodore roosevelt

1909

policy. the exercise of intelligent forethought and of decisive action sufficiently far in advance
political. He expanded the amount of land that
was used for national parks and national forests
domestic.

William Howard Taft (1909- 1913)

1913

policy. became the only man in history to hold the highest post in both the executive and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
2. Taft aspired to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.
3. chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930

16th Amendment (1913)

1913

1. created a federal income tax
2. Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913
3. an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population.

• Federal Reserve Act (1913)

1913

1. Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress
2. signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913.
3. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.

• 17th Amendment (1914)

1914

1. provided for the appointment of senators to fill vacancies.
2. Senators have been elected by write-in votes and some have seen their elections contested.
3. changed how senators were elected.

National Parks System (1916)

1916

1. President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service
2. a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks
3. monuments managed by the department and those yet to be established.

• Russian Revolution (1917)

1917

period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire

U.S. entry into WWI (1917)

1917

President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany.

• Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918)

1918

a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

• Battle of Argonne Forest (1918)

1918

a major part of the final Allied offensive of World War I that stretched along the entire Western Front.

• Armistice (1918)

1918

the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I

• Harlem Renaissance (1920)

1920

an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s.

Progressive Era

1920

1. a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States.
2. began in the late 19th century and continued until World War I.
3. problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption.

19th Amendment (1920)

1920

1. Congress passed the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
2. gave all women who were citizens of the United States the right to vote in local, state, and federal elections in the U.S.
3. Paul and other members of the National Woman's Party drafted the Equal Rights Amendment.

Woodrow Wilson (1913- 1921)

1921

1. was an American politician and academic
2. president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
3. led the United States into World War I in 1917, establishing an activist foreign policy known as "Wilsonianism".

• Agriculture Adjustment Administration (AAA) (1933)

1933

a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (1933)

1933

an independent federal agency insuring deposits in U.S. banks and thrifts in the event of bank failures.

22nd Amendment (1947)

1947

The amendment was passed by Congress in 1947, and was ratified by the states on 27 February 1951.

Vietnam Independence but Country Split at 17th Parallel (1954)

1954

Vietnam would be temporarily divided at the 17th parallel, pending elections within two years to choose a president and reunite the country.

Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam (1954)

1954

Ho Chi Minh first emerged as an outspoken voice for Vietnamese independence while living as a young man in France during World War I.

• Little Rock Nine (1957)

1957

The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

• Civil Rights Act of 1957 (1957)

1957

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

• Affirmative Action (1961)

1961

was first used in the United States in "Executive Order No. 10925"

Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961

a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.

Peace Corps Formed

1961

The three-part mission of the Peace Corps is to: Send trained volunteers to countries that want help.

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union

Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas

1963

His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

1964

a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

The Great Society

1964

was an ambitious series of policy initiatives

• Voting Rights Act of 1965 (1965)

1965

This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson.

• Six Day War (1967)

1967

The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War

• Thurgood Marshall Appointed to Supreme Court (1967)

1967

the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.

Tet Offensive (1968)

1968

The General Offensive and Uprising of Tet Mau Than 1968 was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.

My Lai Massacre (1968)

1968

was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on March 16, 1968.

Vietnamization (1969)

1969

a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces

• OPEC Oil Embargo (1973)

1973

was an event where the 12 countries that made up OPEC stopped selling oil to the United States.

War Powers Resolution (1973)

1973

a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.

Richard Nixon (1969- 1974)

1974

the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974.

Fall of Saigon (1975)

1975

was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.

• Bill Gates Starts Microsoft (1975)

1975

a popular mainframe computer programming language, for use on an early personal computer (PC), the Altair.

• Camp David Accords (1978)

1978

The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978

Imperialism (1890- 1914)

1980

1. a shift had taken place in American atti- tudes toward expan- sion
2. Between 1870 and 1900, the European powers seized 10 million square miles of territory in Africa and Asia
3. Foreign trade solve unemployment and economic depression.

• Marines in Lebanon (1983)

1983

was devastated by a car bomb, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans.

• Iran-Contra Affair (1985)

1985

was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.

• End of Cold War (1989)

1989

the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe.

• Berlin Wall Falls (1989)

1989

was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.

• Iraq Invades Kuwait (1990)

1990

it invaded the neighbouring State of Kuwait, consequently resulting in a seven-month-long Iraqi military occupation of the country.

• Germany Reunification (1990)

1990

was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic became part of the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany.

• Soviet Union Collapses (1991)

1991

was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union

Rodney King (1991)

1991

was an American activist. On March 3, 1991, King was beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest, after a high-speed chase, for driving while intoxicated on I-210.

Contract with America (1994)

1994

was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign.

Bill Clinton’s Impeachment (1998)

1998

was impeached by the United States House of Representatives of the 105th United States Congress on December 19, 1998

9/11 (September 11, 2001)

2001

The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi terrorist group Al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

War on Terror (2001)

2001

is an ongoing international military campaign launched by the United States government following the September 11 attacks.

Facebook Launched (2004)

2004

a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.

CARMEN'S BIRTHDAY

Jul 20, 2004

JONES FUTURES ACADEMY HS (10TH)

Hurricane Katrina (2005)

2005

was a large Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths and $125 billion in damage in August 2005

Saddam Hussein Executed (2006)

2006

The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006.

Arab Spring (2010)

2010

was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.

Osama Bin Laden Killed (2011)

2011

President Obama addressed the Nation to announce that the United States has killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda.

Donald Trump Elected President (2017)

2017

was the 45th president of the United States, serving from January 20, 2017, to January 20, 2021.