Timeline - 11th grade

Westward Exapnsion

Dec 7, 1865

Growth of railroads, mining, ranching and cattle industry boom, farming and agricultural innovation, and conflict with native americans.

The Gilded Age

Dec 7, 1877

Industrialization, monopolies, Andrew Carnegie, immigration, and urbanization.

U.S. Imperialism

Dec 7, 1898

U.S. expansion overseas, Spanish American War 1898, Annexation of Hawaii, and Teddy Roosevelt.

Progressive Era

Dec 7, 1900

Democratic reforms, regulation of monopolies, consumer protection, environmental conservation, women's suffrage: 19th amendment, and prohibition.

World War I

Dec 7, 1914

Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Trench warfare, Woodrow Wilson, and League of Nations.

The Roaring Twenties

Dec 7, 1920

Jazz Age, Flappers, Prohibition, The "new" KKK, and Scopes Trial

Great Depression

Dec 7, 1929

Stock market crash, high unemployment, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.

World War II

Dec 7, 1939

Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Europe and the Pacific, and atomic bomb.

The Cold War

Dec 7, 1945

Soviet Union, Communism, Containment, arms race, space race - Sputnik 1957, and Espionage (spies).

Civil Rights Movement

Dec 7, 1954

Martin Luther King, Jr. , Rosa Parks, Sit Ins, and Brown vs. Board of Education.

Vietnam War

Dec 7, 1954

Part of the Cold War, U.S. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson, Draft, and Antiwar Movement.

Late 20th Century

Dec 7, 1970

Inflation, Oil Crisis, Conservative Resurgence, End of Cold War, and Technological Revolution.

U.S in the 21st Century

Dec 7, 2000

Globalization, 9/11 Terrorist Attacks, War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, 2008 Economic Recession, and Election of Barak Obama