US History Era Chart

Westward expansion

• assimilation

• railroads

• native americans

Gilded Age

• monopoly

• labor unions

• china exclusion act

Progressive Era

• Meat inspection act

• upton sinclair

• pure food and drug act

Imperialism and WW1

• treaty of versailles

• spanish american war

• panama canal

roaring twenties

• flappers

• harlem renaissance

• mass manufacturing

Great Depression

• dust bowl

• court packing

• social security act

world war II

• navajo code talkers

• pearl harbor

• the holocaust

Early cold war

• Containment

• mccarthyism

• cuban missile crisis

civil rights movement

• bus boycott

• martin luther king jr

• black panthers (militant)

Vietnam (1970s)

• President Nixon

• vietnamization

• war powers resolution

1980s- 1990s

• berlin wall

• reaganomics

• sandra day o connor

Modern Era

• hurricane katrina

• september 11, 2001

• NAFTA