Major Eras of US History

By ashleymetcalf

  • WESTWARD EXPANSION

    WESTWARD EXPANSION
    America was focused on the growth of railroads, mining, ranching and cattle industry boom, farming and agricultural innovation, and conflict with Native Americans.

  • THE GILDED AGE

    THE GILDED AGE
    The world was being industrialized, monopolies were taking over industries, Andrew Carnegie was quickly taking over and expanding the steel industry, immigration was at an all-time high and the cities were growing to compensate.

  • US IMPERIALISM

    US IMPERIALISM
    The Treaty of Paris gave the U.S. colonies of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philipines, and parts in the West Indies in exchange for 20 million, ending the Spanish American war, the U.S. annexed Hawaii, and Teddy Roosevelt

  • THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

    THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
    Women took their right to vote, their were democratic reforms, environmental conservation became an agenda, and prohibition caused conflict across the country.

  • WWI

    WWI
    -WWI was caused by alliances, imperialism, militarism, nationalism, and the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
    -The Zimmerman telegram was a note proposing an alliance between Mexico and Germany if the US entered the war.
    -Trench warfare and new weapons caused a lack of progress and increased fatalities.
    -Woodrow Wilson was president 1913-1921.
    -The League of Nations was created at the end of the World War.

  • THE ROARING TWENTIES

    THE ROARING TWENTIES
    -The 1920's was a time of prosperity and consumerism in the US.
    -The Jazz age was a wave of jazz that swept the US.
    -Flappers were women that danced in clothes that were formerly thought as scandalous.
    -Prohibition caused uproar and bootlegging.
    -The "new" KKK targeted immigrants, Jews, Catholics, or anyone with "un-American" values and their membership reached 4 million in the 1920's.
    -The Scopes trial eventually led to the Butler act being repealed.

  • THE GREAT DEPRESSION

    THE GREAT DEPRESSION
    -Stock Market Crash
    -High unemployment
    -Herbert Hoover
    -Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal

  • WWII

    WWII
    -Pearl Harbor
    -Holocaust
    -Adolf Hitler
    -Europe and the Pacific
    -Atomic Bomb

  • THE COLD WAR

    THE COLD WAR
    -Soviet Union
    -Communism
    -Containment
    -Arms Race
    -Space Race – Sputnik 1957
    -Espionage (spies)

  • THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

    THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
    -Martin Luther King, Jr.
    -Rosa Parks
    -Sit Ins
    -Brown vs. Board of Education
    -“I Have a Dream”

  • THE VIETNAM WAR

    THE VIETNAM WAR
    -Part of the Cold War
    -U.S. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam
    -Lyndon B. Johnson
    -Draft
    -Antiwar Movement

  • LATE 20TH CENTURY

    LATE 20TH CENTURY
    -Inflation
    -Oil Crisis
    -Conservative Resurgence
    -End of Cold War
    -Technological Revolution

  • US IN THE 21st CENTURY

    US IN THE 21st CENTURY
    -Globalization
    -9/11 Terrorist Attacks
    -War on Terror
    -Hurricane Katrina
    -2008 Economic Recession
    -Election of Barack Obama