Events Every American Should Know

Ms. Guillotte's Final Study Guide Pt. 3

Louisiana Purchase - 1803

doubled size of U.S. with land west of the Mississippi River; brought from France

Mexican-American War - 1846-1848

gained most of California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico

Industrial Revolution in U.S.

mostly 2nd half of 1800s, after Civil War

Reconstruction - 1865-1877

The period after the Civil War in which the states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States.

Progressive Era - 1890s-1920s

time of progressive social and political change; tried to improve living and working conditions for the poor in the U.S.; broke up monopolies and challenged big business

Civil Rights Movement

2nd half of 1950s and the 1960s; involved boycotts, sit-ins, and worked for equal rights for Black Americans; worked for voting rights, especially in the south

Watergate

scandal involving Pres. Richard Nixon lying about what he knew about a break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in the summer of 1972