Timeline - 11th grade

By Laushaw
  • Westward Exapnsion

    Westward Exapnsion

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

    The Gilded Age

    Industrialization, monopolies, Andrew Carnegie, immigration, and urbanization.
  • U.S. Imperialism

    U.S. Imperialism

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

    Progressive Era

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

    World War I

    Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Trench warfare, Woodrow Wilson, and League of Nations.
  • The Roaring Twenties

    The Roaring Twenties

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

    Great Depression

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

    World War II

    Pearl Harbor, Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, Europe and the Pacific, and atomic bomb.
  • The Cold War

    The Cold War

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

    Civil Rights Movement

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

    Vietnam War

    Part of the Cold War, U.S. supported South Vietnam against communist North Vietnam, Lyndon B. Johnson, Draft, and Antiwar Movement.
  • Late 20th Century

    Late 20th Century

    Inflation, Oil Crisis, Conservative Resurgence, End of Cold War, and Technological Revolution.
  • U.S in the 21st Century

    U.S in the 21st Century

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