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Manifest Destiny
Belief that america needs to expand. Especially settlers going west. -
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Reconstruction
Time of rebuilding after the civil war -
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Guilded Age
Rise of powerful corporations and poverty -
14th Amendment Passed
Freed the Slaves -
15th Amendment Passed
Gave Blacks the right to vote -
Battle of Little Bighorn
Lakota Indians outnumbered and outgunned 700 soldiers of the U.S. cavalry -
Dawes Act
Forced Native Americans to live on reservations and learn white culture. -
Wounded Knee Creek Massacre
American Soldiers gunned down nearly 300 Lakota people. A native american tribe. -
Carnegie Steel Founded
Huge steel manufacturing company -
Overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani
American Plantation owners in Hawaii over through the monarchy to sell their sugar -
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Progressivism
Time where little guys can succeed and big corporations fall -
Plessy v. Ferguson
court case that blacks were fighting for equal qulity -
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U.S. Imperialism
United States starts taking places outside of mainland -
Spanish American War
War between Spain and America -
The Jungle Book
Book describing the living conditions of poor and immigrants -
Trust busting/ Breaking of standard oil
Big corporations like standard oil sued and split up -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Factory caught fire and workers died because of no building codes -
Prohibition Protest
Protests wanting limitations of Alcohol -
Building of Panama Chanel
France started building the Chanel then US finished it -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Act for children in the work force -
19th amendment
Women can vote
