US HISTORY

By Jeenny

  • Homestead Act

    people migrated from the west to the Midwest beause the governement was giving away free land , due to overcrowding in the cities

  • Transcontinental Railroad Completed

    May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

  • Industrialization Begins To Boom

    factories and machines were starting to be built

  • Boss Tweed Rise At Tammany Hall

    political machine that began to rise

  • Telephone Invented

    Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist invented the telephone

  • Reconstruction Ends

    1877, Hayes withdrew the last federal troops from the south, and the bayonet-backed Republican governments collapsed, thereby ending Reconstruction.

  • Light Bulb Invented

    in 1879 by Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb

  • 3rd Wave Of Immigration

    The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. People was looking for better economy, and freedom of religion

  • Chinese Exclusion Act

    Chinese people were banned from entering the u.s due to there being a lot of people in the country

  • pendleton act

    is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation.

  • interstate commerce act

    1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices.

  • Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

  • chicago's hull house

    house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, opened to recently arrived European immigrants.

  • Andrew Carnegie's Gospel Of Wealth

    article written by Andrew Carnegie in June of 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy

  • how the other half lives

    shows how people in tenement live

  • sherman anti trust act

    act to help stop all monopolies

  • timespan prog era

  • Klondike Gold Rush

    gold was discovered

  • homestead steel labor strike

    workers wanted better wages

  • pullman labor strike

    labor dispute

  • assasiation of president McKinley

    On September 6, 1901, William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States, was shot on the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition

  • Pure food and drug act

    act that tells businesses they should have a clean place, and all food must be clean too

  • the jungle

    Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States

  • Model-T

    automobile produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable car

  • NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

  • federal reserve act

    n Act of Congress that created and established the Federal Reserve System

  • 16 amendment

  • William Howard

  • 17 amendment

  • National park system

  • President Harding's Return to Nomarcly

  • 18 amendment

  • 19 amendment

  • Harlem Renaissance

  • Red Scare

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    Roaring Twenties

  • Teapot Dome Scandal

  • Joseph Stalin Leads USSR

  • Mein Kampf Published

  • Scopes "monkey" Trial

  • Charles Lindbergh's Trans-Atlantic Flight

  • St. Valentine's Day Massacre

  • Stock Market Crashes "Black Tuesday"

  • Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany

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    The Holocaust

  • Kristallnacht

  • Hitler Invades Poland

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    World War II

  • German Blitzekrieg Attacks

  • Pearl Harbor

  • Tuskegee Airmen

  • Navajo Code Talkers

  • Executive Order 9066

  • Bataan Death March

  • Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

  • • GI Bill

  • Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day

  • Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima

  • United Nations (Formed)

  • Liberation of Concentration Camps

  • Victory in Europe (VE) Day

  • Germany Divided

  • • United Nations (UN) Formed

  • • Germany Divided

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    Harry S. Truman

  • Nuremberg Trials

  • Truman Doctrine

  • • Truman Doctrine

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    The Cold War

  • Berlin Airlift

  • Marshall Plan

  • • Marshall Plan

  • • Berlin Airlift (

  • • NATO Formed

  • NATO Formed

  • • Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War

  • • UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China

  • • Armistice Signed

  • • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution

  • Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in Vietnam

  • • Hernandez v. Texas

  • • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Warsaw Pact Formed

  • • Warsaw Pact Formed

  • • Interstate Highway Act

  • • Elvis Presley First Hit Song

  • Sputnik I

  • • Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV

  • • Polio Vaccine

  • • Kim Il-sung invades South Korea

  • • Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate

  • • Miranda v. Arizona

  • • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • • Peace Corps Formed

  • • Mapp v. Ohio

  • • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • • Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • • Gideon v. Wainwright

  • • Escobedo v. Illinois

  • • The Great Society

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • • Tinker v. Des Moines

  • War Powers Resolution