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Homestead Act
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Transcontinental Railroad Completed
On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, signaling the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. The transcontinental railroad had long been a dream for people living in the American West -
Industrialization Begins to Boom
The Industrial Revolution, which took place from the 18th to 19th centuries, was a period during which predominantly agrarian, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban. -
Boss Tweed rise at Tammany Hall
William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878)—often erroneously referred to as "William Marcy Tweed" (see below), and widely known as "Boss" Tweed—was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics of 19th -
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Reconstruction Ends
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Gilded Age
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Light Bulb Invented
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Third Wave of Immigration
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Chinese Exclusion Act
a law saying that the Chinese can't come the U.S.A. for 10 years -
Pendleton Act
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Dawes Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
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Chicago’s Hull House
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Klondike Gold Rush
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
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How the Other Half Lives
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s -
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Imperialism
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Homestead Steel Labor Strike
the workers were working for to long and not being paid for the extra hour -
Pullman Labor Strike
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Annexation of Hawaii
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Spanish American War
military conflict between the U.S. and Spain which resulted in the U.S. gaining temporary control of Cuba and ownership of Puerto Rico, Guam, Philippines -
Open Door Policy
foreign policy policy proposed by the U.S. in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in china -
Assassination of President McKinley
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Theodore Roosevelt
political party: republican + progressive
"Bull Moose" Party Domestic policy: trust buster, nature (conservation), protect consumer -
Panama Canal U.S. Construction Begins
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The Jungle
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Pure Food and Drug Act
preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Model-T
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NAACP
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William Howard Taft
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Federal Reserve Act
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16th Amendment
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Woodrow Wilson
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17th Amendment
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Assissination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
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Trench Warfare, Poison Gas, and Machine Guns
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World War I
World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 -
Sinking of the Lusitania
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National Parks System
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Russian Revolution (1917)
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U.S. entry into WWI
United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat -
Armistice
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Battle of Argonne Forest
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Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
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Treaty of Versailles
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18th Amendment
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19th Amendment women sufferage
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President Harding’s Return to Normalcy
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Harlem Renaissance
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Red Scare
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Roaring Twenties
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Joseph Stalin Leads USSR
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Scopes “Monkey” Trial
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mein kampf published
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, originating in the United States -
Hoovervilles
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored -
100, 000 Banks Have Failed
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hitler appointed chancellor of germany
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The holocaust
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Dust Bowl
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rape of nanjing
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kristallnacht
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Hitler invaded Poland
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World War 2
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. -
German blitzkrieg
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Pearl Harbor
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Tuskegee Airmen
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Navajo Code Talkers
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Executive Order 9066
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Bataan Death March
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Invasion of Normandy (D-Day)
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GI Bill
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Atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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Victory over Japan/Pacific (VJ/VP) Day
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Liberation of Concentration Camps
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victory in Europe (VE) Day
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united (UN) formed
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Germany divided
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Harry S. Truman
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Harry S. Truman
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nuremberg Trials
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Baby Boom
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Truman Doctrine
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The cold War
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Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $13 billion (nearly $140 billion in 2017 dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. -
NATO formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European countries based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949 -
Chinese forces cross Yalu and enter Korean War
Explaining China's Intervention in the Korean War in 1950. In October 1950, Chinese troops under the name of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (CPV) crossed the Yalu River to assist North Korean armies, and engaged in the Korean War in an offensive manner after the U.S. troops crossed the 38th parallel. -
Kim Il-sung invades South Korea
In December 1945, the Soviets installed Kim as chairman of the North Korean branch of the Korean Communist Party. ... Prior to Kim's invasion of the South in 1950, which triggered the Korean War, Joseph Stalin equipped the KPA with modern, Soviet-built medium tanks, trucks, artillery, and small arms. -
UN forces push North Korea to Yalu River- the border with China
North Korean forces quickly retreated back over the 38th parallel and General Douglas MacArthur ordered troops to pursue them into North Korea. On 19 October Pyongyang was captured and by 24 November, North Korean forces were driven back almost to the Yalu River which marks the border of China. -
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1950s Prosperity
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1950s Prosperity
The Decade of Prosperity. The economy overall grew by 37% during the 1950s. ... Inflation, which had wreaked havoc on the economy immediately after World War II, was minimal, in part because of Eisenhower's persistent efforts to balance the federal budget. -
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Execution
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were United States citizens who were executed on June 19, 1953 after being convicted of committing espionage for the Soviet Union. -
Armistice Signed
This armistice signed on July 27, 1953, formally ended the war in Korea. North and South Korea remain separate and occupy almost the same territory they had when the war began. The Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, when the North Koreans invaded South Korea, officially ended on July 27, 1953. -
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• Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional -
• Hernandez v. Texas
Hernandez v. Texas. The Court decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial and national groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Polio Vaccine
There are two types of vaccine that protect against polio: inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) and oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV). IPV is given as an injection in the leg or arm, depending on the patient's age. Polio vaccine may be given at the same time as other vaccines -
Interstate Highway Act
The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation -
Elvis Presley First Hit Song
"Heartbreak Hotel" makes its climb up the charts on its way to #1, -
Leave it to Beaver First Airs on TV
June and Ward inspect the gift they have for Beaver's graduation and read the inscription, "...Class of '63". Leave It to Beaver is set in the fictitious community of Mayfield and its environs. The principal setting is the Cleaver home. The Cleavers live in two houses over the series' run. -
Sputnik I (1957)
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses. Wikipedia -
• Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democrat John F. Kennedy defeated incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. -
• Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
• Peace Corps Formed
On September 22, 1961, Kennedy signed congressional legislation creating a permanent Peace Corps that would “promote world peace and friendship” through three goals -
• Mapp v. Ohio
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against "unreasonable searches and seizures," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts, -
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• Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history. In October 1962 President John F. Kennedy was informed of a U-2 spy-plane's discovery of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba -
• Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. in Dallas, Texas while riding in a presidential motorcade in Dealey Plaza. -
• Gideon v. Wainwright
Monday marks the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright, a landmark case in U.S. Supreme Court history, in which the court unanimously declared that indigent criminal defendants have a constitutional right to a court-appointed lawyer. -
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• The Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice -
• Escobedo v. Illinois
The critical question in this case is whether, under the circumstances, the refusal by the police
to honor petitioner's request to consult with his lawyer during the course of an interrogation constitutes
a denial of "the Assistance of 198 Counsel" in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution
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• Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona was a Supreme Court case that overturned Ernesto Miranda's conviction for kidnapping and rape because he had not been informed of his legal rights prior to confessing. For example, Miranda did not know that he could ask for an attorney or remain silent during questioning. -
• Tinker v. Des Moines
Tinker remains a frequently-cited Court precedent. In Morse v. Frederick, the Supreme Court will decide whether Tinker remains good law, and whether the First Amendment continues to protect the right of students to express controversial views that are not disruptive but may disagree with official school policy.
