Major Eras of US History for 11th Grade

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    Westward Expansion

    -growth of railroads
    -mining
    -ranching & cattle industry boom
    -farming & agricultural innovation
    -conflict with Native American's
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    The Gilded Age

    -industrialization
    -monopolies
    -Andrew Carnegie
    -immigration
    -urbanization (growth of cities)
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    US Imperialism

    -US expansion overseas
    -Spanish American war 1898
    -annexation of Hawaii
    -Teddy Roosevelt
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    Progressive Era

    -democratic reforms
    -regulation of monopolies
    -comsumer protection
    -enviromentlal conservation
    -women's suffrage: 19th amendment
    -prohibition
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    World War I

    -lusitania
    -Zimmerman telegram
    -trench warfare
    -Woodrow Wilson
    -league of nations
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    Roaring Twenties

    -jazz age
    -flappers
    -prohibition
    -the "new" KKK
    -Scopes trial
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    the Great Depression

    -stock market crash
    -high unemployment
    -Herbert Hoover
    -Franklin D Roosevelt's new deal
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    World War II

    -pearl harbor
    -holocaust
    -Adolf Hitler
    -Europe and the pacific
    -atomic bomb
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    Cold War

    -soviet union
    -communism
    -containment
    -arms race
    -space race (sputnik 1957)
    -espionage (spies)
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    Civil Rights Movement

    -Martin Luther King, Jr
    -Rosa Parks
    -sit ins
    -Brown vs. board of education
    -"I have a dream"
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    Vietnam War

    -part of the cold war
    -US supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam
    -Lyndon B Johnson
    -draft
    -antiwar movement
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    Late 20th Century

    -inflation
    -oil crisis
    -conservatice resurgence
    -end of cold wat
    -technological revolution
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    US in the 21st Century

    -globalization
    -9/11 terrorist attack
    -war on terror
    -hurricane katrina
    -2008 economic recession
    -election of Barack Obama