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Industrial Age / Gilded Age
A period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760. -
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Westward Expansion
Railroads grew
Ranching ,Cattle Industry Boom ,Mining ,Agricultural
Innovation, and farming.
People started moveing west
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Rutherford B. Hayes is elected
He was the 19th President of the United States (1877–1881) -
James Garfield Is elected
Assassinated in 1881 -
Chester A Arthur
Elected for 4 years -
Nikola Tesla
Has an idea of a AC Motor. He was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, physicist, and futurist. -
Grover Cleveland
Elected in 1885 - 1889 -
Dawes Act of 1887
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. -
Benjamin Harrison
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Progressive Era
It was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to the 1920s. It eliminated problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and corruption in government. -
Grover Cleveland
Reelected 1893 - 1897 -
William Jennings Bryan
W.J.B was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, he delivers his cross of gold speech -
William McKinley
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Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict fought between Spain and the United States . -
American Imperialism
An organization established in the United States on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was an agreement made in 1898 that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire. -
Andrew Carnegie
he sold steel to J.P. Morgan. He was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century, and is often identified as one of the richest people and Americans ever -
Theodore Roosevelt
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Wright Brothers
On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft. -
Dr. Seuss
he was born. he was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books under the pen name Dr. Seuss -
Helen Keller
she was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. -
Albert Einstein
The Annus mirabilis papers are the papers of Albert Einstein published in the Annalen der Physik scientific journal in 1905. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics -
Upton Sinclair
February 28: The Jungle exposes corruption in the meatpacking industry. Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle, a novel depicting the life of an immigrant family in Chicago during the early 1900s -
Antiquities Act
AA is an act passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by presidential proclamation, create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features. -
William Howard Taft
Elected 1909 -1913 -
Woodrow Wilson
elected 1913 -
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World war I
the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe. -
Sir Winston Churchill
was a British politician and author, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. In 1917, Churchill was made Minister of Munitions – a job requiring strong administrative skills to manage limited resources during the war. Churchill was considered an efficient and skilled minister. -
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Roaring 20's
The 1920s were an age of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society.” -
Start of Prohibition
The ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors–ushered in a period in American history known as Prohibition -
Women's suffrage
Women in the Progressive Era. The woman suffrage movement actually began in 1848, when the first women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. For the next 50 years, woman suffrage supporters worked to educate the public about the validity of woman suffrage. -
Warren G Harding
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Calvin Coolidge
Elected for president -
Herbert Hoover
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Great Depression
The Great Depression lasted from 1929 to 1939, and was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
A NEW DEAL FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
This New Deal would use the power of the federal government to try and stop the economy’s downward spiral. Roosevelt won that year’s election handily. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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World War II
known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier -
Harry S. Truman
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The Cold war
a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc -
Alger Hiss
an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy -
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Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
elected -
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Civil Right movement
Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a starkly unequal world of disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels barred them from classrooms and bathrooms, from theaters and train cars, from juries and legislatures -
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Vietnam War
the Second Indochina War, and known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
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Era of Social change
social revolution presented in Marxism, or to other social movements, such as Women's suffrage or the Civil rights movement. -
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New Frontier and Great Society
A set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson -
John F. Kennedy
elected for president -
Lyndon B. Johnson
elected for president -
Malcolm X
was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans -
Selma to Montgomery
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -
Richard Nixon
elected for president -
Santa Barbara oil spill
The Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was the largest oil spill in United States waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deep-water Horizon -
Gerald Ford
elected -
Jimmy Carter
Elected -
Ronald Reagan
elected -
George H. W. Bush
elected -
An Arms Race
a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War. -
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Gulf War
codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm -
Bill Clinton
Elected -
Clinton authorizes loan to Mexico
Clinton sidestepped Congress’ rejection of an earlier $50 billion loan proposal and exercised his executive power. Claiming that he was acting in the national interest and that national security was at stake, he authorized the Treasury Department to issue a loan through the Exchange Stabilization Fund -
George W. Bush
elected -
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Iraq War
The protracted war between these neighboring Middle Eastern countries resulted in at least half a million casualties and several billion dollars’ worth of damages, but no real gains by other side. Started by Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in September 1980, the war was marked by indiscriminate ballistic-missile attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons and attacks on third-country oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. -
Barack Obama
elected -
Donald Trump
elected
